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The PG&E rates are hard to believe for anyone outside their grip of death. From my February bill: peak: 53.0 + 18.3 = 71.3 c/kWhw partpeak: 51.3 + 11.1 =
by jjav 3y ago
The PG&E rates are hard to believe for anyone outside their grip of death. From my February bill:
peak: 53.0 + 18.3 = 71.3 c/kWhw
partpeak: 51.3 + 11.1 = 62.4 c/kWh
offpeak: 34.4 + 09.8 = 44.2 c/kWh
Electricity is my third largest monthly expense (after mortgage and food) but at the current rate of increases, it'll be the second largest in a few years.
This is for a tiny house with nothing special using electricity.
- fmobus 3y agoWhat the actual fuck. I live in Germany and pay ~35c/kWh, I thought power was supposed to be cheap in the states.
- samarthr1 3y agoIn bengaluru, which is notorious for is high electricity rates, I pay an equivalent of 10c a unit. As a part of a government subsidy, my first 200 units are free too!
- hellotomyrars 3y agoThe US is big. It is very location dependent and whether your utility is private or public. I live in rural Washington and my rate is $0.0634/kWh. My utility is a public one and also non-generating. The power comes from a Federal agency(Bonneville Power Administration) which is is in turn overseen by the Department of Energy.
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- jjav 3y agoI believe that PG&E, even more than high housing costs, is going to ruin California. The costs are already so astronomical and they keep rising so fast, that it's becoming more and more unreasonable to afford. Even on a silicon valley salary, those bills are shocking.
- OJFord 3y agoWhat are the two things summed? Are they really both c/kWh? Just confused because in the UK they'd be p/day and p/kWh respectively, and the numbers look 'in the right ballpark'. (Except that it would be mental to have the standing charge vary according to peak/not time.)