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> And while at $0.078 a kilowatt, Phoenix's power isn't as cheap as Washington State, which is closer to $0.04 a kilowatt, but it's still competitive, Howard sa
by drdrey 3y ago
> And while at $0.078 a kilowatt, Phoenix's power isn't as cheap as Washington State, which is closer to $0.04 a kilowatt, but it's still competitive, Howard said.
what kind of writing is that? It’s unreadable, in addition to mixing kW and kWh
- gruez 3y agoYou missed the paragraphs leading up to this, which mentioned tax incentives. What they were probably trying to say was that the tax incentives were good, and the even though the electricity prices weren't the lowest in the country, the two combined makes it an unbeatable combo.
- tredre3 3y agoI think drdrey was talking about the dubious usage of commas that makes the sentence hard to ingest, not the content per se.
- namirez 3y agoAlso the proper unit is kWh rather than kW.
- Tyr42 3y agoOr it could be in Joules rather than (1000)(1J/s)*3600s
- glompers 3y agoIts writer actually used so many chained clauses that they ended up with a syntactical error... in English you can't say, "Although it isn't low enough by itself, but it is such-and-such." It's tricky in the sense that anyone could get away with saying, "Although it isn't x, still, nonetheless, it is y," which means the same thing as, "Although it isn't x, it is yet y;" and, in some contexts, 'yet' and 'but' are allowed to be treated as interchangeable synonyms. They probably just didn't have enough time or energy to finish the thought with enough attention, and punctuation has such usage conventions in order to let it aid rather than to confuse comprehension and attention. Commas are deceptively easy to get into without overhead, but not to get out of without it. We could simply abuse the commas and still choose either one of the following thoughts, but the Register ended up splitting the difference: At $0.078 a kilowatt, Phoenix's power isn't as cheap as Washington State['s], which is closer to $0.04 a kilowatt, but it's still competitive, Howard said. And, Howard said, while Phoenix's power, at $0.078 a kilowatt, isn't as cheap as Washington State['s], which is closer to $0.04 a kilowatt, it's still competitive.
- furyofantares 3y agoIt's that the structure of the sentences is garbage. I don't think the one quoted here is even the worst offender. Every comma in this article is an adventure. Some of them are okay, some should be deleted, and some should be periods.
- rhaway84773 3y agoWhich is fantastic because Arizona will then make up that deficit by pulling in federal funds, part of which will disproportionately be paid by residents of Washington.
- hyperliner 3y ago[dead]
- personjerry 3y agoAlso commentary like "The crux, of course, is water."
- WarOnPrivacy 3y agoAs far as using up their allotment of commas, you may be right. Past that it seems to stand okay.
- Nick87633 3y agoSeems like they're channeling 60 minutes narration with all the commas.
- reaperducer 3y agoThe commas are fine. It's called apposition.
- dylan604 3y agoFrom the off, commentary is set as the standard: "With more than a hundred 100F (37.7C in non-Freedom units)"
- meindnoch 3y ago>mixing kW and kWh Journalists are journalists for a reason. (They aren't that much into STEM, if you know what I'm saying)
- seatac76 3y agoAgreed, really shoddy tech website writing.
- gymbeaux 3y agoDamn I’m paying 0.104/kWh in Jacksonville, FL. We have a public utility company (JEA) that NextEra Energy (FPL’s parent) has been trying to get its hands on. They promise lower rates, yet in parts of Florida where FPL is the utility company, people often complain of the high rates. I believe FPL’s rate is technically lower than 0.104 but is higher in practice when you factor in all their bullshit fees.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoA residential user in Washington is also paying ~$0.10 per kWh, total cost divided by total kWh.
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- callalex 3y agoHere in California we pay between $.4 and $.5 and they are going to raise the prices again next year. It’s really, truly insane.
- lostlogin 3y agoThe article has been changed now I think, it’s in kWh.