Electricity usage

[bdhsfz6]

17.5 cents looks like the national average of total electric rate, and your 7.6 cents that you chose is probably just the energy company charge. Most states allow picking the energy company, but you still use your local utility that owns the physical hardware, for the distribution, and transmission charges.
Are you sure you’re comparing apples to apples with those numbers?

Yes, my error. The national electricity only rate is $11.23 cents per KWH, not $17.5.

Thanks for pointing this out.

 

[Carl_NH]

In NH the cost of delivery has risen dramatically over the last three years. Our September bill for 400 kWh for the house is $112 this month or $.28 per KWH. $.11 KWH for electricity and $.17 KWH for delivery.

Electric Supply Services $45.23
Delivery Services $67.02
Total Current Charges $112.25

Our garage has the solar and a separate service with net metering at the current rate $.28, they send us a check for overproduction so it's offset $ for $ to what we pay for the house, so its a wash.

The "new" solar installations only get overproduction credit at the cost of energy rate, not the distribution, so that would make the ROI much different in our case.

 

[ultrarunner]

What pencils out in a high cost market may not in a market with low cost electricity.

I’m very pleased with my modest system that was self installed…

Part is simply the satisfaction quotient which is hard to put a price on.

Each year I receive a modest check… my 6kW system produces more than I use for 3200 square feet of home.

 

[bdhsfz6]

What pencils out in a high cost market may not in a market with low cost electricity.

I’m very pleased with my modest system that was self installed…

Part is simply the satisfaction quotient which is hard to put a price on.

Each year I receive a modest check… my 6kW system produces more than I use for 3200 square feet of home.

Again, this will vary by location. PPL, my electric provider here in PA uses net metering. They use your surplus elecrticity to offset future bills. They do not pay you for it directly.

 

[ultrarunner]

By law we have annual True Up which is tracked monthly.

I’m a daily producer…

Last December I did end up owing $1.29 for the month due to peak use.

Attached billing summary showing 12 months of my usage. Had to post lower resolution due to bandwidth limitations here in the boondocks.

 

[JRH02]

The answers are all over the place. And why not, we all live in different places and individual power bills are being posted. To post a power bill from your place is meaningless.

I was hoping people would share ways to reduce the bill and live better.