[Elecraft] OT: Cost of Electricity

[Terry Myers]

What about FUEL surcharges (FUEL Factor for Generation Charges)?  I live 
near Houston and we have low rate as well, but we also have FUEL Factor for 
Generation Charges which is an additional $0.083261/kWh.  My bill was 
$182.38 for this August and $102.91 of that was the "Fuel Factor for 
Generation" charge.  That made the average price per kWh for August $0.148.

The breakdown goes $0.02604 for first 250kWh; all additional kWh @ $0.068903 
and the fuel factor for generation is $0.083261 kWh for each kWh used.  Each 
month the "Fuel Charge for Generation changes.  It is a screwy way of 
billing and makes checking the bill harder than it should be.  The average 
price per kWh for August $0.148.

Terry
KQ5U

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: Cost of Electricity


>     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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