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> To be comparable to natural gas, you need electricity to be about $0.10 per kWh retail. That’s basically the PNW, the mountain west, and parts of the Deep Sou
by tzs 2y ago
> To be comparable to natural gas, you need electricity to be about $0.10 per kWh retail. That’s basically the PNW, the mountain west, and parts of the Deep South.
Shouldn't that also take into account the variations in natural gas prices?
For example electricity in Delaware is more expensive than electricity in Washington, but so is natural gas by about the same percentage. Same when comparing Kansas to Washington.
Using natural gas rates by state from here [1] and electricity rates by state from here [2], here are the states where the ratio of natural gas price to electricity price is higher than that of Oregon and so should be places where you have the best chance to same money switching from gas to electric. The second column is the price ratio.
Georgia 3.3
Oklahoma 3.2
Ohio 3.1
Florida 2.9
West Virginia 2.9
Texas 2.7
Kentucky 2.6
Louisiana 2.5
Delaware 2.4
Missouri 2.3
Wyoming 2.3
Mississippi 2.3
Washington 2.2
Kansas 2.2
North Dakota 2.2
Arizona 2.2
North Carolina 2.1
Arkansas 2.1
Alabama 2.0
South Carolina 1.9
Virginia 1.9
Indiana 1.9
Oregon 1.9
[1] https://www.chooseenergy.com/data-center/natural-gas-rates-by-state/ https://www.chooseenergy.com/data-center/natural-gas-rates-b...
[2] https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/ https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/