Average Electricty Costs in the United States - 2017 (by Region and State)

[NeoGreen]

... source from the US EIA: https://www.eia.gov/



It should be noted that the table above includes the net costs of all three main components of an electricity bill i.e. Generation, Transmission and Distribution:


Any presentation of electricity prices is essentially meaningless if these three components are not defined since all three can vary depending on local conditions. Case in point, my personal electricity bill is typically 1/4-Distribution, 1/2-Transmission and 1/4-Generation.


Additional data of possible interest:

[Duppers]

1. K & R

[Bearware]

2. Your charts had data for renewables, coal and nuclear but none for natural gas

I tried to follow your link https://www.eia.gov/ but it is a gigantic site so I don't know where the data for the graphs came from.

So I have a question on the graph of "Net Generation, United States, All Sectors, Monthly". It shows data just for nuclear, wind and solar. It doesn't show coal, natural gas and other renewables. Why isn't natural gas on the graph? For the moment it's increasing use has a link to the increase in wind and solar.

Also on the graph "Electricity", what percent of the megawatthours for renewables is actually produced by natural gas peaking-plants backing up the wind and solar portion when they are not producing enough power for the grid?

If the "Electricity" graph is just from wind and solar there should be a separate line for the natural gas required to backup them up. There should probably also be a line showing highly efficient continuous natural gas generation plants.