What's your electricity rates?

[SHRED]

Here in San Diego County we are getting ripped off by this so-called "public/private partnership" with SDG&E.

Link to tweet

[jpak]

1. 15 cents a kWh - that's everything - juice and distribution costs

Solar, wind and hydro

[Keefer]

2. 6.8 cents per kwh.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Counting Distribution?

If so, that's really cheap. In northeastern IL it's 6.32 cents/kWh, for the power and 3.51 cents/kWh for transmission, or 10 and a third cents per kWh. If you have electric heat, the transmission cost is lower by about 20%. (Still and expensive way to heat a house.)

On the chart Shred showed though, 27 cents for the first 324 kWh???? Holy cow, that's steep!

That's only 450 watts continuous use over the course of the month. A 60 watt equivalent LED light, a TV and a computer use more than that.

[mwooldri]

3. 9.74 cents a kilowatt.

Duke Energy in NC. Monopoly power. Regulated and rate fixed.

[LiberalArkie]

4. The way I figure it is 8.8 Cents per KWH

Energy. 629KWH. 58.73

Energy Cost Adj. 629 KwH @ .0043715- 2.75

Debt Cost Adj. 629 KwH @ .0003148- 0.20



Note mine may be high as I live out in the Ouachita National Forest and am on a Coop.

[Lisa0825]

5. 500 kWh 9.8 / 1,000 kWh 6.9 / 2000 kWh 10.9

Green Mountain Energy, Galveston County area, TX.

[samnsara]

6. i had a home in Chelan County Washington...3c a kwh

[samnsara]

7. small county bought into the cheap power with the local dam...

...Douglas County next to it did same. The pot farms LOVE it down that way!

[genxlib]

8. Holy shit

You are getting hosed. It's a good thing you have a good climate. My air conditioning bill would be a fortune under those rates.

We are somewhere in the range of 8-10 cents.

On the bright side, it sure makes solar look like a good deal if you can swing it. The low rates around here make it less desirable.

[FreeState]

16. San Diego's climate has changed in the past 10 years

San Diego's climate has changed in the past 10 years - it use to only get up in the 90s once or twice a season, with low humidity. This week will be in the 90s with high humidity.

They said on the news that 60% of homes now have air-conditioning in San Diego.

Older article (2014) but its still relevant: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20141014/california-heat-delivers-costly-blow-coastal-san-diego

[dumbcat]

9. About $0.106 per kWh here in Texas

Sometimes a little less if I stay below 1000 kWh for the month.

ETA: My retail energy provider is Reliant Energy, and I have a 24 month fixed rate plan that is 100% wind power.

[jalan48]

10. 9 cents plus a basic charge of $20 per month.

It's important to include the basic charge in the calculation.

[VMA131Marine]

11. About $0.12/kWh in Connecticut

That's an average. I pay $103/month for my solar panel lease and the array produces about 10,000kWh/yr. I have net metering and put a small surplus into the grid on an annual basis. When I was buying power strictly off the grid I was paying around $0.17/kWh, or more.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. My fuel rate of .0324190 per kWh makes up only 25% of my

electric bill. Rate billing (whatever that is) is 50% of bill. Then there's a customer charge, environmental compliance charge and two separate taxes.

I assume the rate charge is something like what you posted.

Just dividing bill by kWh used it comes to .10917 per kWh.

[xor]

13. That's insane. How does that compare to other larges cities in Southern CA?

Seems like an oppressive rate. To the point that it would be a major drain on the economy as people and businesses move to get away from such high prices.

[braddy]

14. I only left San Diego months ago and my rates were cheap enough, isn't it 13.5 cents per average?

[FreeState]

17. 10.54 is the US average (2017)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183700/us-average-retail-electricity-price-since-1990/

[braddy]

20. 13.15 for 2018 according to this site.

https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/

[FreeState]

24. Yep - all sites say different things (different methodologies)

US Chamber of Commerce says:

In 2017, we actually have the highest national average retail electricity price of the past four years: 10.54 cents/kWh. This tops the 2016, 2015, and 2014 national average rates of 10.28, 10.42, and 10.13 cents/kWh, respectively.

https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/shock-here-s-where-your-state-stacks-electricity-prices

sunmetrix.com Says: 12.81 cents/KWh
https://sunmetrix.com/residential-electricity-rates-united-states/

I tend to go with the Chamber of Commerce as theirs shows where the data comes from.

[brachism]

15. Central Virginia - for our house we average about 11 cents/kWh (effective)

That 11 cents is based on our total bill / our total kWhs. The total bill amount includes a distribution service cost, the actual electrical cost (generation, transmission, and fuel), sales/use surcharges, state/local consumption tax, and local utility tax.

All electric (heating, hot water, laundry, kitchen, etc.) based on 67 months.

For what it is worth, our usage (last 67 months)

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[GoCubsGo]

18. Are we talking before or after the fees we're paying for the failed nuclear plant?

Those tack on an extra 18% to residential bills. I can't figure out exactly what my rate is, because the information they provide is just a big mishmash of numbers. But, I know that we pay about $400 more annually than the national average, thanks, in large part, to the nuclear plant that South Carolina Electric and Gas started to build, and then abandoned, and sticking us customers with the $9 billion bill. I hope everyone involved in that winds up in prison for the rest of their lives. Bunch of goddamn thieves.

[vsrazdem]

19. Not sure what my rate is, but

I used 85% of my usage on off peak hours, and in Phoenix my last APS bill was still $570, the highest it has ever been. This sucks!

[MissB]

30. Whoa.

My worst ones - around this time in the summer- tend to be in the $90 range. Yikes.

[TheBlackAdder]

22. PSEG - Variable Rate, and Delivery Charges too.

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In New Jersey, using PSEG, which is a highly reliable provider. My last month's bill:


Supply Charges

First 360kWh x $0.117056 = $42.14
Next 585 kWh x $0.126752 = S74.15
Next 240 kWh x $0.115000 = $27.60
Next 391 kWh x $0.124680 = $48.75
subtotal = $192.64


Delivery Charges

Monthly fee of $2.42
First 600 kWh x $0.046017 = $27.61
Next 976 kwH x $0.050092 = $48.89
subtotal = $78.92

Total for 1,576 kWh = 271.56 -or- an effective rate of $0.172360/kWh

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[GeorgeGist]

23. 10.7 cents/kWh

[NoSmoke]

25. It's important to distinguish here between the base rate and effective rate.

My base "energy charge" rate (Alberta, Canada) is about 5 cents/KWH i.e. the wholesale price of electricity which, around here, is what is passed on to the end user at cost. My effective rate i.e. the total bill $ (including transmission, distribution, admin and a few other charges) divided by the KWHs consumed varies from around 25 cents/KWH to 18 or 19, depending on the consumption for a given month (higher consumption leads to lower cents/KWH).

If that's how the OPs San Diego rates are calculated, they don't seem too bad in comparison, at least for the lower consumption amounts.

[Roland99]

26. Duke Energy in FL.

Energy Charge

$0.07132 first 1000kwh. Then $0.08559


Fuel Charge
$0.03838 first 1000kwh. Then $0.04838


Asset Securitization Charge
$0.00254

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Just checked as I was looking for on vs off peak hours

Peak hours from Apr - Oct are noon-9pm

Adjusting my pool pump to run more in the morning and gonna talk to the mrs about laundry in the morning or later at night. Sizeable drop in cost

Edit: oh wait. Peak vs off peak is only for time of use customers apparently. Blah

[radical noodle]

27. I have Duke in FL too

Same charges exactly, so no difference in area, apparently. We paid a fortune in rural Indiana with REMC. It's been six years now so I don't remember the rates, but FL is great in comparison.

[MissB]

28. $11 basic charge and .11/kw

Portland Oregon

Credits and taxes excluded, but those two seem to cancel each other out.

We used 774 kW this past month. We are in our 3rd heat wave this week- so we’ve had the central air on pretty much constantly in the past month. If I lived where you did, I’d be paying that tier 2 rate. Even if you didn’t have a basic rate, working that into my cost per kW would only add a penny.

[MissB]

29. And another city in Oregon that has great rates

is McMinnville. Their customer charge is $14.50/ month and their usage fee is .05/kW for the first 1000.

Charming city too.

[drray23]

31. dominion virginia power in southeastern virginia

Dirt cheap.

from june-september
distribution :
2.15 cents per kWh first 800 kWh
1.2212 cents per kWh next 800 kWh

$6.73 fixed charge added to that

then add the supply charges:

3.6464 cents per kWh first 800 kWh
5.5464 cents per kWh next 800 kWh

then 0.973 cents per kWh for all kWh

so if you use less than 800kWh per month , you would be at 2.15+3.64+0.973 = 4.82 cents per kWh onto which you add $6.73 and a bunch of other taxes.

[trof]

32. .1125/KWH in coastal AL. EMC elec.coop.

[trof]

33. Hey all: Just divide your total bill by KWH used for the month.

I didn't split out service charges, taxes, etc. I just wanted to know what I pay in total per KWH.