What do you pay for Electricity?

`In 1940 the Grid had only been in a couple years. The minimum charge was $2.50 per month. Many people only had a couple lights hanging from the middle of the ceiling. They watched their meter, and when the minimum was used up, they left the lights off and lit the coaloil lamps. Not many could afford a refrigerator. Or the $2.50 for that mater. <>UNK

Our electric system requires about 3 gallons of gasoline per week.
Gas is 2.70 or so right now, so.... less than 35 bucks a month.
A kilowatt hour amount would be interesting.
I would have to do some figuring.

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Actual cost: .009 at the house & .013 at my workshop. TVA generated power through a local co-op.

hmmmm.... I just built a house and my supplier is the Delaware Electric Co-Op....so I have "co-op" charges, as well as "supplier" charges....don't really understand my bill....here's the breakdown:

Co-Op Delivery Charges:
Customer charge : $7.95
Distribuition : .01706/kwh
Renewable Fund : .0001780/kwh

Supplier Charges:
Electric Supply Service : .070/kwh
Transmission Charge : .0036/kwh
Ancillary Service Rate Charge : .0026/kwh
PCA : .0306/kwh

I Just added them all up and I got .124/kwh, plus the $7.95 "customer charge"....

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Ours is .15546 kwh plus $9 in customer and universal fees. They would charge us an additional monthly fee to tie in wind or solar but will not buy it back from us - so we would be paying them to take any excess electric we produced. The joys or a rural co-op.

My last bill was $136.19 for 1541 KWH = not quite 9 cents per KWH

ours is 10 a kw thru a coop. We paid a fee when we joined years ago and every year we get a small membership check. This year it was $10 I think. It is supposed to be going up sometime soon though I think.

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I don't remember what the charge per kilowatt is but we pay $180 per month for electricity.

Ours is 13.3.

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about 420.00 per 2 months

Sounds like a good deal. A few years ago when I was renting a house I had a different electric co-op. They had a 12 dollar a month connection charge and let you use up to 35 kw for free. I think it was .06 ¢ per kw after that. I guess I had gotten a little spoiled compared to some of these folks here. Seems to be most of the higher cost areas are in the hurricane belt and where they get ice storms.

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Ours from a co-op figures out to be .08 cents. (With the fees, base rate etc.)
Starting in Oct. the base rate is going up $5. They said that was instead of a rate hike. (I don't believe they wont also do the rate hike later.

It hurts us because we have 6 meters so ours starts at a min. of $155 a month before there is any usage added. (6 office units/ shop)

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Ours is .102 per kwh with 3% sales tax, a $10.30 facilities charge, and .36 renewable energy mandate charge. We have Jones-Onslow Electric.

Our kilowatt hours is low 9 cents but we are paying for the ice storm damage it was $60 last month no telling what it will be this month.

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I pay 5.7 cents on the first 600 kwh; 6.6 cents after that, plus a delivery charge that varies but seems to be around 8.5 cents per kwh, then a regulatory charge, a debt reduction charge and 5% tax which next year will be 13%. When it's all said and done, it looks like 17 cents per kwh.

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well, the last bill was $89.44 and the KWH used was 969, so that's just over 9 cents per KWH.

Just FYI: My house is under 1700 square feet, I keep my thermostat set at 79 degrees during the summer, my water heater is kept on the lowest possible setting, and I am adament about lights being off whenever possible.

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My rural electric coop rates for last month:

Actual cost of the electricity = $0.09/kwh
Cost of getting the electricity to a house (facility charges) $0.8301/day
Power cost adjustment = -$0.00297/kWh
State & local tax = 5.5%

We (the coop) split the cost of electricity and the facility costs into 2 charges to make it clear to members what they are paying for. The electric cost is pretty comparable to other electric company, but the rural coop's facility charges are higher per house than for folks who live in a city. (Example: there are fewer members per mile of electric power line). My electric coop serves a mostly rural area so we have fewer customers (members) per mile than in town so the cost of running the coop (facility charges) is divided between fewer members.

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up to 300kw .093
301- 700kwh .054
700- unknown .045
$9.40 connection fee
another $10.90 in miscellaneous fees (so minimum bill is $19.30 though taxes get higher as useage increases).

No wonder mainland people get shocked when they get their first electric bill around here. Our electric rates on this island, the island of Hawaii, are around forty four cents per kilowatt hour. I think Oahu may be "down" to forty two cents per kilowatt hour. Mainland folks will move over here and run the appliances like they do on the mainland and get their first electric bill of somewhere around $400 to $800 dollars. There is a reason there aren't very many air conditioners around here.

We are off the grid and running on sunshine at our house so we can't run an air conditioner but we don't have electric bills, either. We are, however, invested in Hawaiian Electric. They pay us dividends, we don't pay them.

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With electric rates like that I would be off-grid too! I just got a bill for last month, I used 58 KW. My electric bill was $29.75. Works out to 51 cents a Kw figuring the connection charge as part of it. Been debating about going off-grid again since I use very little electricity anyway.

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