Electric Rates

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Just got my latest power bill, 381 kwh for $36.85, works out to .097 cents per kwh. There was 1.07 in sales tax, but no other itemization, so I don't know if there is a flat charge or not, or if the rates are tiered. I guess I could check other bills to see if the rate works out the same. What are your local rates?

[mistletoad]

I haven't got this month's bill yet, but last month it was 0.15094 Kw/h. Our rate hasn't been as low as yours since July 2005 and it just keeps going up month after month.

[Stephen in SOKY]

We're at .091 which includes a fuel surcharge tacked on by TVA & all taxes/fees.

[highlands]

We're in Vermont. We pay $0.165 per KWHr plus about $15 in flat fees plus taxes. On my to-do list is building a micro-hydro station - we have the water and the head here on the mountain. Time, I just need more hours in the day, more days in the warm seasons. Hmm... Maybe Global Warming will help extend the work season.

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[HermitJohn]

Taxes and weird fees are part of the total cost, I just take total bill and divide by number kilowatt hours that month, and that is the REAL cost. Right now my real cost is around 14cents per killowatt hour. The real bummer is that the fixed rate if no electric is used has risen to point where saving on electric doesnt lower bill all that much. Just the REAL cost per killowatt hour goes up fast the fewer killowatt hours one uses.

Kinda like anymore I drive so few miles per year that fuel mileage of my vehicle matters little compared to the fixed insurance cost. This past year for example I was surprised to find I drove under 1000 miles total. I still paid close to $800 to insure two vehicles (when one has older vehicles one needs backup especially if one lives as a hermit). Now instead of insurance companies charging extra for silly things like bad credit score which has nothing to do with driving record and liability exposure, they should base cost on number of total miles driven. And the driver should be insured for basic liability rather than liability on each vehicle. A single driver can only drive one vehicle at a time.

[Mel-]

ours is tiered. pay $00.09294500 for the first 300 KWH, the next tier is 0.05417800 but I don't remember at what point it changes over again (haven't used enough in last 5 months to kick to the next tier).

the way it works we pay the .09 for 300 kwh always, then say you use 500 kwh then the last 200 is at the .05 price. and then there is another tier where it drops even lower. I will hit that one in the winter but can't remember the price or range.

[SunsetSonata]

I live in a village which is one of 2 villages in my county that manufactures its own electric. I got out my last bill and figured total cost for me is $0.043. It's rare, but I have had electric bills less than $10.

[comfortablynumb]

in sw pa I pay $0.07 per KWH total.

[Liese]

We have Duke Energy here and just to have the pleasure of a bill costs us about $21 before usage and taxes. So when our bill is $35-40 more than half of it is administrative & taxes! Now if we put in solar and could keep the total cost to $6-8K we'd break even ... eventually, lol.

[Beeman]

.0912 per KWH

[Kevingr]

.10 kwh in the summer and .08 kwh in the winter. If you use over 800 kwh in a month then there's another adjustment that works out to about another .01 kwh.

[calliemoonbeam]

0.09/kwh here. It's the same rate now as it was in the summer.

[hotzcatz]

Before adding in the miscellaneous fees, it is .33 per KWH and after all the fees it is around .39 per KWH. That's just for now, though, the electric company just got authorization to raise the rates by another 5% to 7% I think it was. We aren't connected to the grid ourselves although we used to be invested in Hawaiian Electric. They've paid dividends steadily for the past seventy some odd years, I think it's been. It's kinda nice to get dividends from the electric company and NOT have any electric bills but they had too much exposure to the mortgage crisis so we sold our Hawaiian Electric shares.

[WisJim]

Our bill came yesterday--over $13 for 60kw-hrs, so about $.22 a kw-hr, including the fees and add-ons, although the basic rate is about 10 cents, I think. It's nice when a month is sunny and breezy and we generate most of what we need, so don't have to buy much power.

[wnychris]

Originally Posted by SunsetSonata

I live in a village which is one of 2 villages in my county that manufactures its own electric. I got out my last bill and figured total cost for me is $0.043. It's rare, but I have had electric bills less than $10.

Same with our town, but Ours is even cheaper.

[Wolf mom]

The co-op electric company here doesn't list the cost of electricity here on it's bills!

It's about .05 per K-hr not including all the extras they pile on including rural meter reading!

[goatsareus]

if I divide my last bill, $92.31, by the KWH used, 722, I am paying .127 per kilowatt hour. I'm on a rural electric coop.

[dpike]

.067 per KWH here in Central Oregon.

DP

[donnam]

When all is said and done, our rate is .09 KWH. This past summer we received a 55% rate hike so the bill is considerably higher than it was but I shouldn't complain because my inlaws in MD got a 77% rate hike and it's hurting them on their fixed income.

[rggambrell]

.0187 per KWH at Little River Electric Co-op in Abbeville County South Carolina.