[Elecraft] OT: Cost of Electricity

[Kenneth E. Harker]

     The city of Austin also runs its own municipal electric utility.
We have a $6/month flat fee on top of usage.  Our rates vary by time of 
year, and the first 500 kWh/month are less than anything over that.  
For 423 kWh in the summer, we'd pay $21.01 total, or an effective 4.9
cents per kWh.  I don't think you'd ever get to 8.3 cents per kWh, even
factoring in the $6 base fee, as the maximum usage rate for us is 7.82 
cents per kWh.

     Go out into the Hill Country or the northern suburbs, though, and 
it's a completely different story.  The Pedernales Electric Cooperative 
(the largest electric coop in the country) has a $20/month base fee and 
usage rates that start at 8.67 cents a kWh.  423 kWh out there would 
cost $56.67 or an effective 13.4 cents per kWh.  [Half of my coworkers 
live in PEC territory and half of us live in Austin Energy territory -
it leads to interesting comparisons.]


On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:23:00PM +0000, w6jd at comcast.net wrote:
> I am fortunate to live in Palo Alto, CA which owns and operates its own
> very well run utilities. Back in the days before "de-regulation" they had the
> sense to lock in a number of  longterm contracts for power and as a
> consequence my last month bill for 423KWH was $35.15 or 8.3 cents
> per KWH.
> 
> Doug
> W6JD
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