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09/03/09, 01:28 AM
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Location: Central Wisconsin
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What do you pay for Electricity?
I got a letter in the mail stating that the connection charge was going up from 24 dollars a month to 28 and there would be a 3.8 percent hike per kilowatt. It is 8.6 cents during the off months and 9.6 cents per kilowatt during the summer.
Just curious if that is inline with what most people pay or if it is a little high. It is much higher than what my parents pay I know that much.
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09/03/09, 01:37 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Where I live in PA the deregulation of electric is soon to happen.
I have heard that PPL wants a 42% increase and Met Ed wants 52% in 010. I have PPL.
That is just the start 
Tom
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09/03/09, 05:13 AM
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If you add in all the myriad little bull poop charges and taxes and everything, then divide by KWH used, seemed like it worked out last year to 13 or 14 cents per KWH.
I dont really want more chores to do, but if prices doubled, guess for small amount electricity I use, be worth going off grid. Let some other sucker make these people's boat payments and CEO bonuses.
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09/03/09, 05:17 AM
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Location: Texas Coastal Bend/S. Missouri
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I think ours is 16 cents now.
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09/03/09, 05:19 AM
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Location: EastTN: Former State of Franklin
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Base customer charge of 8 bucks, then 9 cents/kwhr for any we buy.
On the plus side, they pay us 12 cents/kwhr + whatever the retail is ( so this is 21 cents currently ) for all our solar produces.
Last bill, they owed us 5 bucks.
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09/03/09, 05:42 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Florida
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Base rate is a little over 13 cents per kwh. When you add the taxes it comes to about 14.5 cents per kwh.
I'd think I was in heaven at 9 cents.
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09/03/09, 06:17 AM
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With taxes included, we're paying $0.15/kwh. That's about to go up as we're going to be hit with a hurricane surcharge for pole/line damage done by Ike last year. Haven't paid attention to how much, it doesn't really matter...any increase is going to hurt.
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09/03/09, 06:29 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: east Tennessee
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Ours is 11 cents per hour including taxes. TVA is the supplier here.
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09/03/09, 07:07 AM
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Location: Mid-Michigan
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About .13/kwh here with all taxes/fees. It had been about .11 but just recently went up.
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09/03/09, 07:39 AM
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Our current rate is .0795 kwh +.0302 power cost adjustment. This month the taxes are $2.94. The customer charge is $4.50, the security light is $6.25.
The PCA started being added in occasionally about a year & a half ago when our small town electric company had to buy power from another source. The ethanol plant uses almost as much electicity & water as it produces ethanol. Now the electic company can't produce enough for all and we are billed for the extra purchased power.
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09/03/09, 07:42 AM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Virginia
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Ours used to be aroudn 13 cents with taxes and such; but the rates just went up so I need to go back and see what it is now. My electric bill jumped by about $50! I really need to get my solar power set up finished.
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09/03/09, 07:53 AM
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Location: WI
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Our base rate, in Western Wisconsin, is just a bit over 10 cents a kw-hr, and then there is the $8/month "meter reading fee", and the other fees, etc., so our monthly bill ends up around $20 for 100 or so kw-hrs, or close to 20cents. You have a real low rate, in my opinion, if it is under 10 cents.
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09/03/09, 08:00 AM
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In Remembrance
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Join Date: May 2002
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Local electric co-op which buys from TVA. $.12 kwh. Reports are it will go down a tad.
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09/03/09, 08:03 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Eastern Shore of Maryland
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We are locked in at .16 cents per KWH for another year. That does not include taxes/fees. Our house is total electric and my July bill was $189.76 for 1,257 kwh.
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09/03/09, 08:16 AM
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Location: Near Traverse City Michigan
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with taxes and everything, about 7 cents per kwh
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09/03/09, 08:18 AM
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Max
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Near Traverse City Michigan
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mabey I need to check mine again. I havent figured it in a year.
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09/03/09, 08:23 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: UP, Michigan
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Sounds like you all have low rates compared to up here. On our last bill, after it was all said and done, we paid $.22 per kwh.  We have REA
Our last bill from our last residence was back in June this year. We paid $.16 per kwh after all the extras. That company was UPPCO
REA buys electricity from UPPCO and sells that electricity to us at a higher rate.
The kicker is that our neighbors across the road and to the south of us all have UPPCO. We, apparently, are the cut-off point for REA territory.
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09/03/09, 08:29 AM
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Location: Michigan
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well i haven't checked the kwh lately but we pay about $2 a day for electr..sometimes up more like $2.50 so i can generally figure a $65 to $75 bill..i think it is high when our elec used to be more like $30 to $35 a mo.
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09/03/09, 08:29 AM
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Location: Mid-Michigan
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Just looked up my latest bill--with distribution charge and energy efficiency charge added in, it is 10 cents p/kwh. PLUS delivery surcharge of $4.07 and sales tax of $2.37. Our average monthly use is 20kwh, so our electric bill is much lower than most people we know, but still is about double what it was 2-3 years ago without doubling our usage
Last edited by Kris in MI; 09/03/09 at 08:34 AM.
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09/03/09, 08:33 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by simplyflow
Sounds like you all have low rates compared to up here. On our last bill, after it was all said and done, we paid $.22 per kwh. We have REA
Our last bill from our last residence was back in June this year. We paid $.16 per kwh after all the extras. That company was UPPCO
REA buys electricity from UPPCO and sells that electricity to us at a higher rate.
The kicker is that our neighbors across the road and to the south of us all have UPPCO. We, apparently, are the cut-off point for REA territory. |
UPPCO and REA! Brings back memories of my time in the UP when dh was going to Michigan Tech. In fact, the family 'joke' is that our son who was born in the UP (the only blond/blue eyed child we had) was really fathered by the UPPCO man. 
Do you have Ontonagon REA, by any chance? If so, do they still allow you to read your own meter and write down the numbers on the little card they sent monthly? Or do they actually come around and have a meter reader now?
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