I pay 72 cents a kWh

[Scouzer]

The posted electrical rate here is 0.093 kWh... but this of course means nothing. I only pay $10/mo in actual electricity. My total bill is $44.92 this month after admin fees, transmission fees, distrubution fees, local access fees, taco fees...

So my EFFECTIVE kWh is 40.8 cents. Rape. I only use 110kWh/mo as well...

EDIT:

LOL, I just calculated my bill in June when I only used 55kWh of power. My bill was still $40, which works out to $0.72 kWh!

 

[Parasitic]

California?

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
California?

Canada

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
California?

huh? why would california have low electricity costs?

 

[Farang]

mmmm. . . taco fees . . .

 

[tranceport]

how hell do you only use 110kwh?

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: tranceport
how hell do you only use 110kwh?

That's actually the most I have ever used.

- No TV
- Rarely cook at home
- Laptop
- All CFL bulbs

The least I have used is 55 kWh for an entire month.

It's just a one bedroom apartment.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: Parasitic
California?

huh? why would california have low electricity costs?

40.8 cents is a lot..

 

[Jeff7]

Damn, those fees are high. Here, they just about double my bill, which was $42.28 this past month.

You do a nice job on low energy use though, wow. Back around summertime, I was over 600KWH. For my last statement, 380KWH.
My biggest energy users of any of that time:
- Computer/LCD (~200W total, turned off at night and when I'm at class during the day. No TV, my PC does that, too)
- 2 x air conditioners (summertime, obviously)
- dehumidifier, which runs much less in the winter
- refrigerator
- furnace blower
- lighting (all CFLs except for a closet light)

- stove is gas, water heater is gas, heating is gas. Clothes dryer, is electric, but it only gets used about 10 minutes - it gets the wrinkles out of the clothes, and I then hang them on racks to dry.

It comes out to $0.11126 per kilowatt hour, though it says that my "price to compare" when shopping for other providers is $0.053 per kilowatt hour.

I don't get this though, my distribution charges are split up:
173KWH x 0.030770
207KWH x 0.037874

The fees I'm charged:
Distribution, transition, generation, transmission, and 4 cents in state tax surcharges.

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Damn, those fees are high. Here, they just about double my bill, which was $42.28 this past month.

You do a nice job on low energy use though, wow. Back around summertime, I was over 600KWH. For my last statement, 380KWH.
My biggest energy users of any of that time:
- Computer (~200W, turned off at night and when I'm at class during the day)
- 2 x air conditioners (summertime, obviously)
- dehumidifier, which runs much less in the winter
- refrigerator
- furnace blower
- lighting (all CFLs except for a closet light)

It comes out to $0.11126 per kilowatt hour, though it says that my "price to compare" when shopping for other providers is $0.053 per kilowatt hour.

I don't get this though, my distribution charges are split up:
173KWH x 0.030770
207KWH x 0.037874

The fees I'm charged:
Distribution, transition, generation, transmission, and 4 cents in state tax surcharges.

Wow. You use 4 times the power I do with a cheaper bill. sigh.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother

Originally posted by: Parasitic
California?

huh? why would california have low electricity costs?

I don't know, but having just moved here (from Arizona) my electricity bill went way down. I haven't reduced my use, and I went from a gas stove to an electric (so in theory my usage should have gone up). I think my bill last month was $30 between two people (around this time I'd easily pay $40 for myself)

 

[adairusmc]

.06618/kWh here.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
Wow. You use 4 times the power I do with a cheaper bill. sigh.

Yeah, I don't know where the heck it all goes, unless my refrigerator or furnace blower are drawing 15 amps each when I'm not looking. I usually have one 65W CFL running when I'm home, and in a month, that's probably about 12.74KWH. My lighting costs in general are fairly low.

I pop the Kill-a-watt meter in line with the refrigerator and see how much it's using.
The computer is probably contributing a fair amount to the bill, maybe 40-50KWH a month.
Maybe I should switch off everything in the apartment and see how fast the meter is still going. This apartment's building is shared with a small convenience store. Hopefully there aren't wires going from my breaker box over to their stuff. (And hopefully the electric company is reading the right meter.)

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Scouzer
Wow. You use 4 times the power I do with a cheaper bill. sigh.

Yeah, I don't know where the heck it all goes, unless my refrigerator or furnace blower are drawing 15 amps each when I'm not looking. I usually have one 65W CFL running when I'm home, and in a month, that's probably about 12.74KWH. My lighting costs in general are fairly low.

I pop the Kill-a-watt meter in line with the refrigerator and see how much it's using.
The computer is probably contributing a fair amount to the bill, maybe 40-50KWH a month.
Maybe I should switch off everything in the apartment and see how fast the meter is still going. This apartment's building is shared with a small convenience store. Hopefully there aren't wires going from my breaker box over to their stuff. (And hopefully the electric company is reading the right meter.)

well your bill is so small given the amount of stuff you have anyway, it'd have to be a pretty small convenience store

 

[mundane]

Generation rate per kwh: .0463
Actual charge per kwh (including the "taco fees"): .1273
Usage: 397 kwh

We _never_ turn on the heat or A/C, but do a lot of cooking (electric range), electric water heater, and have 5 computers. We were gone for 1/3 of the billing period, and this is one of the few months we have not been hit with the 'overage' rate.

 

[Eli]

Wow, that's amazing.

/finds electric bill

Bill: $207.89
kWh: 2120

Total Cost per kWh: $0.0981

Taxes and Fees: $6.38

Actual cost per kWh before Taxes and Fees: $0.0951

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: Eli
Wow, that's amazing.

/finds electric bill

Bill: $207.89
kWh: 2120

Total Cost per kWh: $0.0981

Taxes and Fees: $6.38

Actual cost per kWh before Taxes and Fees: $0.0951

Good lord that's a lot of power! Are you Al Gore's accountant looking at his power bill?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: Eli
Wow, that's amazing.

/finds electric bill

Bill: $207.89
kWh: 2120

Total Cost per kWh: $0.0981

Taxes and Fees: $6.38

Actual cost per kWh before Taxes and Fees: $0.0951

Good lord that's a lot of power! Are you Al Gore's accountant looking at his power bill?

:laugh:

Electric heat.

210$ is pretty much as high as it gets, its usually lower

 

[zig3695]

does everyone live in shoeboxes or something? 207 is high but not crazy at all... ive paid 170 before, i love a/c in the summer. but hell with electricity, why is my natural gas (most abundant fossil fuel) bill 275 a month!?!?!

 

[thirtythree]

.075/kwh... last bill was 185kwh, total of $18.07 for the bill.

Last gas bill was $38. I think there's something wrong with my heating system though...

 

[shopbruin]

735KWH over 2 months, charge is 80.53 for electricity.

however there's this stupid "solid resources fee" that's 34.32 that kills my bill each month. total amount due was 123.06 for the last bill.

 

[TallBill]

$45 sounds cheap.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: freesia39
735KWH over 2 months, charge is 80.53 for electricity.

however there's this stupid "solid resources fee" that's 34.32 that kills my bill each month. total amount due was 123.06 for the last bill.

It amazes me that ATOT doesn't seem to understand that electricity transmission and distribution requires mindbogglingly enormous amounts of capital infrastructure that's also very high maintenance

You're not going to get anyone to provide and maintain it without covering costs and some form of return

As far as per unit cost, without supply charge, we pay about ~18cents a unit for 100% accredited renewable power, standard tariff is just less than 14c a unit. Since we use about 6 units a day it makes barely any difference to our bill.

Supply charge is 25.57cents a day here.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: freesia39
735KWH over 2 months, charge is 80.53 for electricity.

however there's this stupid "solid resources fee" that's 34.32 that kills my bill each month. total amount due was 123.06 for the last bill.

It amazes me that ATOT doesn't seem to understand that electricity transmission and distribution requires mindbogglingly enormous amounts of capital infrastructure that's also very high maintenance

You're not going to get anyone to provide and maintain it without covering costs and some form of return

As far as per unit cost, without supply charge, we pay about ~18cents a unit for 100% accredited renewable power, standard tariff is just less than 14c a unit. Since we use about 6 units a day it makes barely any difference to our bill.

Supply charge is 25.57cents a day here.

Don't I know you from somewhere?

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: freesia39
735KWH over 2 months, charge is 80.53 for electricity.

however there's this stupid "solid resources fee" that's 34.32 that kills my bill each month. total amount due was 123.06 for the last bill.

It amazes me that ATOT doesn't seem to understand that electricity transmission and distribution requires mindbogglingly enormous amounts of capital infrastructure that's also very high maintenance

You're not going to get anyone to provide and maintain it without covering costs and some form of return

As far as per unit cost, without supply charge, we pay about ~18cents a unit for 100% accredited renewable power, standard tariff is just less than 14c a unit. Since we use about 6 units a day it makes barely any difference to our bill.

Supply charge is 25.57cents a day here.

Don't I know you from somewhere?

I'll be round in a tick