What are you paying per kilowatt hour for your electricity and who

do you buy it from?


In Jan.2007 I paid 15.85 cents/KWh from Green Mountain Energy

.0827 per

NC
plus tax

Is North Carolina regulated?

'service delivery' charge and a customer service charge. My bill runs about $90 to $100 during the winter and 2 to 3 times that much when the air conditioning is on. I live in Arkansas, but the electric company is in Louisiana and there's no such thing as customer service here. You have to call them long distance if the service is out!

First 300 is .09, then it drops to .06. I have a co-op that buys from Bonneville Power. My bill runs about $150 and I don't use much heat or cooling. Before the Enron mess in CA, I was paying half that.

businesses can do the Green Power option??

At home it's the Green Power option (LA DWP also), but not sure the cost.

LA DWP is working hard on development of more wind power production. We don't lack for it, particularly in the desert east of here.

...

is charged at $.11/KWH and our main house is being charged at $.08/KWH (Jan 07 bill)
I have no idea why the difference and I'm not about to challenge the higher fee because they might raise the lower one!

That's the "Baseline" rate. 131-200% over baseline and the price jumps to $.22944. Pretty easy to due with two computers running all day and an electric dryer running occasionally.

You pay a bundle! Is your decimal point in the right place?????????

:shrug:

of DEREGULATION.

I need to move to Washington state.

it's all about deregulation.

This is an interesting post! I confirmed that my $/kwh would be twice as much as some here.

I have 18 photovoltaic panels on my roof. I am tied to the grid and rack up big negatives in the summer and use them up in the winter. In N. Cal.

the same.

Ouch!

pay less after deregulation?

You are being screwed and confused.

You must live around San Diego

I usually pay $200+ a month, so I build up a big ole credit for when summer arrives,, I am too old and cranky to sit around sweating all summer :)

But my bill only runs $25-35$ a month after I switched out to almost all CF bulbs. I try to conserve on it as much as I can, since they are about 85% coal generation.

SCE, uses a complicated formula. But a typical month has me paying $.1223 per kilowatt-hour (I used about 8kwh/day on the bill I grabbed; fairly typical, although I can do better). But this is for electricity below the baseline, and the price goes up above the baseline.

(I'd pay a few cents more (per kwh) for (to support) green power, but if there's some such offer extant, I've missed it. I was going to switch to a completely green provider after things were deregulated, but there was that massive power swindle and the alternate provider disappeared.)

"disambiguation"?

That's "Southern California Edison" -- one can get caught up in the familiar (local) lingo, and forget that others have no reason to be familiar with it.

My Total January bill was $29.82
That is with a computer on 24/7 and plugging my car in nights and weekends.
Xcel Energy

In Hawaii. Paradise at a price. :(

I'm really sorry...that's ridiculous it costs that much!

:hi:

:(

Summer months come close to rivaling Al Gore's bill for a house many times smaller than his 10,000 sf mansion!

In Texas.

:)

Groton Utilities is the provider, which is cheaper than Conn Light and Power. And I know my power is mostly Nuclear, since I live within 10 miles of the plant.


9.6 cents basic charge
3.5 cents purchased power adjustment (deregulation overhead rape charge) (varies by month as they choose the next overpriced monopolistic supplier)

Connecticut Light and Power

.12 in 'generation charges' and the rest in 'delivery'

plus delivery charges, plus taxes, plus, plus, plus.

;) co-op in northern nm.

I'm in Massachusetts, buying from Western Mass. Electric Company.

When I saw "Green Mountain Energy," I assumed you were in Vermont. I had no idea someone from Texas would pay so much!

entire country

I'm a little surprised at how wide the range is.

This is pretty much what I was expecting.

What I am seeing is that regulated markets are paying half
that of deregulated markets.

home use, not sure how much per kilowatt/hour, but probably going to change now that I have solar
inverters on the roof (LADWP rebated about 40% off the top).

The Professor

DEREGULATION

The difference on ours is that we went to buying at auction. The biggest problem with electrical dereg is that it inserted a layer of purchase and profit taking that adds no value to the consumer.

This is a fundamental flaw in the understanding that these deregulation hounds have. The libertarian economic model that encourages minimal to no regulation also requires that all steps in the market process be value-added. The auction and market aspects of selling electricity this way adds ZERO value.

So, it doesn't follow the very economic model they worship. If you need that layer of distribution, and provide a non-value added step that takes profit, then the deregulation has accomplished nothing, except to increase price to the consumer.
The Professor

The other power companies in the MA are twice as much.