how much do you pay for electricity?

[Omegachi]

just for info because i am in a process of planning on moving out to a place where i have to pay electricity separately from my maintenance bill.

 

[Parasitic]

Needs. more. information.

Location?
Income bracket?
Household?
Rent/own?

At home in SoCal it used to be maybe $60-80 for a family of four. We were fortunate enough not having to use heating in the winter or AC in the summer. Plus we were pretty frugal.
At Berkeley I used to pay maybe $40/month for my apartment, which being a cheap broke-ass college student didn't use heating or AC. Some people I knew paid less though (like <$15/month), primarily because they applied for low-income subsidy, although that is a grey area.

 

[Jeff7]

Total charge is about 10 cents per kWH, in Erie, PA.

Your heating bill will make your electric bill look like a breeze. And your car will be made out of pure iron oxide before long; they really salt the hell out of the roads during the winter.

 

[Omegachi]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Needs. more. information.

Location?
Income bracket?
Household?
Rent/own?

Hawaii
60+
1
own

i might have to run the ac a lot since its a pretty warm place during the day (maybe during night time too).

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Teh intarweb says it averages 16.734 cent per kWh.

 

[Scouzer]

I use about $8/mo in electricity.

Then I pay $32-42/mo in transmission fees and admin fees.

 

[Tylanner]

my electric bill makes me wish we were communist

 

[Omegachi]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Teh intarweb says it averages 16.734 cent per kWh.

mine is 20.06 cents per kWh

 

[akshatp]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Needs. more. information.

Location?
Income bracket?
Household?
Rent/own?

At home in SoCal it used to be maybe $60-80 for a family of four. We were fortunate enough not having to use heating in the winter or AC in the summer. Plus we were pretty frugal.
At Berkeley I used to pay maybe $40/month for my apartment, which being a cheap broke-ass college student didn't use heating or AC. Some people I knew paid less though (like <$15/month), primarily because they applied for low-income subsidy, although that is a grey area.

How does his income bracket factor into how much electricity would cost him? Or even whether he rents or owns?

I would think the only pertinent information would be the size of the dwelling and climate in the region he lives in. And maybe whether or not he plans on running a data center out of his home...

 

[KingTech]

I think these are amazing low rates around the world. I have to pay more than $200 every month for electricity.

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Needs. more. information.

Location?
Income bracket?
Household?
Rent/own?

At home in SoCal it used to be maybe $60-80 for a family of four. We were fortunate enough not having to use heating in the winter or AC in the summer. Plus we were pretty frugal.
At Berkeley I used to pay maybe $40/month for my apartment, which being a cheap broke-ass college student didn't use heating or AC. Some people I knew paid less though (like <$15/month), primarily because they applied for low-income subsidy, although that is a grey area.

How does his income bracket factor into how much electricity would cost him? Or even whether he rents or owns?

I would think the only pertinent information would be the size of the dwelling and climate in the region he lives in. And maybe whether or not he plans on running a data center out of his home...

Low income bracket = local subsidies available. One can potentially get a discount rate on their electric bills. It's very common (at least in California).

 

[Sphexi]

.09/KwH or so, our heat is electric, but it's a 2 bdrm apartment on the second floor, so we leech some heat from below and above. I haven't even turned it on yet and it's been in the high 40s outside, nice and toasty warm in here.

 

[eplebnista]

~$90/m summer, ~$60/m winter

 

[Nohr]

13.85 cents per kWh this month. I'm in east TX.

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: Omegachi

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Teh intarweb says it averages 16.734 cent per kWh.

mine is 20.06 cents per kWh

ZOMFG thats absurd. Even with that I'm still calling shens on the 16.734/kWh average, maybe in California, but not in the whole USA. Where in gods name do you live that electricity costs 20 cents/kWh, thats 200$/MWH (the number used in bulk power trading). Thats worse than the most inefficient gas generators in the US use unless maybe they are running on fuel oil. It is illegal to sell electricity on the spot market above 250$/MWH in many places, and more or less absurd that you would be averaging 200$/MWh.

For comparison these are normal all in generation costs:

40$/MWH = coal
50$/MWH = nuclear
60$/MWH = natural gas combined cycle
100$/MWH = natural gas simple cycle

The fact that you pay twice the amount of the most expensive generation option that is used is mind blowing to me. 8 cents/KWH makes good sense, anything over 10 is pretty high, 20 is absurd. See, this is why you should move to the south where we actually have intelligent energy policy instead of banning coal and nuclear and LNG terminals etc like California does.

EDIT: Here is the actual data, I knew 16 was WAY off. Btw if you don't realise, the cheapest electricity is the states with the most coal mines or hydro production.

 

[Shawn]

My roommate was bitchin because the electric was over $350 last month. I have a fixed price tho so I don't have to pay for utilities. :thumbsup:

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Parasitic

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Needs. more. information.

Location?
Income bracket?
Household?
Rent/own?

At home in SoCal it used to be maybe $60-80 for a family of four. We were fortunate enough not having to use heating in the winter or AC in the summer. Plus we were pretty frugal.
At Berkeley I used to pay maybe $40/month for my apartment, which being a cheap broke-ass college student didn't use heating or AC. Some people I knew paid less though (like <$15/month), primarily because they applied for low-income subsidy, although that is a grey area.

How does his income bracket factor into how much electricity would cost him? Or even whether he rents or owns?

I would think the only pertinent information would be the size of the dwelling and climate in the region he lives in. And maybe whether or not he plans on running a data center out of his home...

Low income bracket = local subsidies available. One can potentially get a discount rate on their electric bills. It's very common (at least in California).

Low income gives you like 20% off maybe. My bill back in my apartment of 4 which was a very modern apartment got around $25 - $35, averaging $30 throughout the year. I picked up a winter bill and it was only $28 once. Insane.

I pay $45 - $50 now in my apartment with 1 other roommate. Maybe it's cuz of my halogen lamp and stuff. My old roommates used make sure we used CFLs in every socket. THey were cool, but I really preferred high powered stuff so when I moved I switched to halogen... RaWRRrrrrr

 

[Zee]

1 house, NYC, 100 a month

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: Omegachi

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Needs. more. information.

Location?
Income bracket?
Household?
Rent/own?

Hawaii
60+
1
own

i might have to run the ac a lot since its a pretty warm place during the day (maybe during night time too).

Are you seroius? I'm in a 600' cottage with no AC and I'm over $120 every month. WTF? I'm on Maui BTW...

 

[Casawi]

It is included in my rent. But at my last one bed room aprt, it reached $120/mo in the summer.

 

[Descartes]

Unless I'm an idiot and don't know how to read my electric bill, I pay ~$0.07/kWh.

 

[woodie1]

My August bill was $77. Much of that is the A/C. I have a small house and we were still getting up to 90 degrees most days.

 

[TwiceOver]

Average about $70/mo. Haven't lived here long enough to know my winter bill.

 

[Metron]

I pay 11.20 cent/kWh... that's a fixed rate plan in Texas, which is deregulated.

Check out Text... for specific rates available in Texas by zipcode.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: BrownTown

Originally posted by: Omegachi

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Teh intarweb says it averages 16.734 cent per kWh.

mine is 20.06 cents per kWh

ZOMFG thats absurd. Even with that I'm still calling shens on the 16.734/kWh average, maybe in California, but not in the whole USA. Where in gods name do you live that electricity costs 20 cents/kWh, thats 200$/MWH (the number used in bulk power trading). Thats worse than the most inefficient gas generators in the US use unless maybe they are running on fuel oil. It is illegal to sell electricity on the spot market above 250$/MWH in many places, and more or less absurd that you would be averaging 200$/MWh.

For comparison these are normal all in generation costs:

40$/MWH = coal
50$/MWH = nuclear
60$/MWH = natural gas combined cycle
100$/MWH = natural gas simple cycle

The fact that you pay twice the amount of the most expensive generation option that is used is mind blowing to me. 8 cents/KWH makes good sense, anything over 10 is pretty high, 20 is absurd. See, this is why you should move to the south where we actually have intelligent energy policy instead of banning coal and nuclear and LNG terminals etc like California does.

EDIT: Here is the actual data, I knew 16 was WAY off. Btw if you don't realise, the cheapest electricity is the states with the most coal mines or hydro production.

3 bedroom 2 bath 50x20 100 sq ft doublewide

12.88 here on hydro dam in Northeast Oklahoma.

Meter:

32956
30238

1.0 Residential

2718 KWH Used

$211.00

It was 10.3 at beginning of the year, they keep raising it every 3 months.

They just got another 6% raise since energy costs keep going up.