Electricity - how much do you use? Pay?

[DaveC]

Just wanted to read everyone's entries to get perspective. Unfortunately, I am in the So Cal Edison service territory, not the Anaheim Municipal Utility, so our rates are a wee bit higher

Latest bill shows we used about 920 kwhr this month, (Oct-Nov)...Fall weather, little or no A/C..Edison's rates have dropped a bit, as they get out of debt. Present rates are broken out for delivery (that's T&D if you are a utility guy) and Generation. Then they are further scaled by percentage of baseline. The highest tier for each delviery and generation are about 0.09/kwhr each.

Max rates total about 0.18/kwhr, and these are the lower Winter rates. The bill is a weighted summation... ours ran about $100, so that's around $0.10 /kwhr. Not too bad, but... I get a 25% employee discount. That makes the effective rate about 0.125/kwhr.

Lots of incentive here for lighting efficiency. But DIY electricity generation, comes in at about 0.45 -0.55 ignoring capital costs.

Some of the very low US rates NW and Mid West, particularly, are your FED TAX dollar at work. Facilities were built with tax money, and often are not run to make money. TVA and BPA are better now than earlier, but not playing on the same field as the Investor Owned Utilities.


Dave Cooper