How much do you pay for power? Per KW (kilowatt)

[0007]

I pay 11 cent a KW. Check your power bill.

[Dan-W]

1. KWH: KiloWattHours.

I pay 11 cents per KWH. Average daily KWH use = 13. They add in a customer charge of $7.07. Bill for 3/24 to 4/23 was $53.77.

Edited to add in "customer charge".

-Dw

[SidDithers]

15. 4.7 cents in Toronto

plus $15/month distribution charge, plus a bunch of other charges (debt repayment, transmission etc) wich add another 3.6 cents per KWH.

Sid

Edit: those are $CDN = 1.4 $US

[German-Lefty]

2. You pay per KWH.

You pay for units of energy not power. You can't pay 11 cents and have them give you a KW for all enternity.

Ok sorry, just being picky.

[0007]

5. I understand that more than thoroughly

Was trying to keeping it in simple terms for the layman.

[Arger68]

3. 11.4 cents - all charges including taxes &

monthly meter charge.

[trotsky]

4. Here in MN it's somewhere around 9 cents per KWH.

Pretty cheap.

[BOSSHOG]

6. 7.2 in south Mississippi

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. For an international comparison

about 9.2 cents per kWh, including taxes, in the UK. Standing charge works out at about $7.40 a month.

[Iceburg]

8. 6.8 cents/kWh (All taxes, + debt retirement charge)

Base cost in Ontario Canada is 4.3 cents/kWh
Once you add in all the taxes, delivery charges and our infamous "debt retirement charge" it works out to 9.4 cents (Canadian currency) per kWh. At the current exchange rate $1 cdn = .72 USD we arrive at ~ 6.8 per kWh

[LoverOfLiberty]

9. Rural Oregon

The cost per kwh is 5.5 cents plus $15.50 month for meter/service charge.

Since I don't use that much electricity, the meter/service charge increases the cost per kwh quite a bit.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. 30 yen/kwh in Japan

or about 27 US cents. Fortunately, appliances here are very energy efficient.

[starroute]

11. I pay 9 cents per KW

And that represents a substantial increase over last year. So we're not doing too badly.

But my electric bill is still over $100 a month, and I can't figure out why. I don't have electric heat, only one small air conditioner in an upstairs room, not a lot of appliances. This is driving me nuts.

[Jose Diablo]

13. Look for 'phantom' power use

like clocks in alliances, VCR, DVD, memory in TV's, radio's etc. Even if the device is off, power is still consumed.

Try unplugging everything, go to the meter and see if the indicator is rotating. If it is something is still consuming. If not plug-in the devices one by one to see if the device consumes electricity even if off. You will be surprised at the background electricity consumed by 'intelligent' consumer goods.

Also, refrigerators can consume a lot of electricity if insulation is poor. Door seals, hinges not adjusted and insulation inside the door would be likely suspects causing excessing electricity use by a refrigerator. Moisture condensation around the refrigerator is one 'telltale' the cold is escaping.

Sometimes the styrofoam insulation used in walls and between to freezer and refrigerator section gets saturated with moisture. When this happens, its insulating properties are gone. Once the styrofoam is saturated, it's practically impossible to total dry the styrofoam. Impossible to open the walls to get at styrofoam, but the styrofoam divider between freezer and refrigerator can be removed and replaced. Soft ice-cream in the freezer usually shows the freezer cold is escaping to refrigerator section where the thermostat controls the freezer on-off. Thus the freezer would be warmer than it should be if the difference in temperature between the freezer and refrigerator is not maintainable, due to defective insulation between the 2 sections.

Just some thoughts.

[cheezus]

22. reducing fridge/freezer consumption: keep it full!

you want stuff that exchanges energy slowly, like pretty much everything that goes in a fridge (mostly water), rather than air, which loses a lot of energy very quickly

[starroute]

23. I'll try those things, thanks

I think the fridge is okay -- it's certainly full enough. But I'll see what I can do about the electronics.

[Kong]

12. $0.0725 - Northern West Virginia

coal fired power plants and large sales of power to the Eastern grid keeps our costs low.

[SoCalDem]

14. 14.629 in So Cal

:(

[0007]

18. ...and I thought I was paying a lot - WOW!!

[SoCalDem]

20. Remember...we got "Enroned"...so now we pay TWICE

higher utilities AND higher taxes.. whooopppeeee :(

and we got Ahhhhnold as our "consolation prize"..:puke:

[jpak]

16. ~$0.06 (Gulf Power)

Don't have the bill in front of me, but I do remember that I use 7 kwh/day....

[Viking12]

17. $.0632 per kwh basic rate

However, I pay an optional, extra $3/150kwh as part of a renewable energy program bringing the rate to $.0832 per kwh.

$5.00/month service fee.
$0.98/month Utility Public Benefits Rider

[sandnsea]

19. 8.1, then 5.5

.081 for the first 300 kwh, then .055. We have a co-op and it buys in 5 year contracts from Bonneville. They don't fluctuate much, but we're also not under any State regulatory board either. Which is fine unless they decide to do something screwy; then I don't know what.

[0007]

24. Is this in Utah?

[cheezus]

21. $0.02 - just got cut in half

I live in a university apt, and they just upgraded their system to bring some powerful new generators online. It's my understanding that they sell excess power back to excel energy.

The decrease came at the same time that our rent was scheduled to go up. It was a nice surpirse, the two about cancel eachother out.

that being said, I still feel that energy is far too inexpensive

[ParanoidPat]

25. Santa Cruz, California, Baseline $0.11589 (306 Kwh) Over that $0.13321

This is determined by the following componants....

Generation__________________$42.12
Transmission________________$10.00
Distribution________________$21.03
Public Purpose Programs_____$02.91
Nuclear Decommissioning_____$00.45
Trust Transfer Amount (TTA)_$08.31
Energy Commission Tax_______$00.28

Based on Baseline usage of 306.0 Kwh
101% - 130% of Baseline____091.8 Kwh
131% - 200% of Baseline____214.2 Kwh
201% - 300% of Baseline____306.0 Kwh
Over 300% of Baseline______009.0 Kwh
____________________________________
Total electrical usage_____927.0 Kwh
For a total of $118.18 for just the electrical portion of the bill. Natural gas for my furnace is extra @ $1.02627 per Therm. :crazy:

The above is from my January PG&E bill. :evilfrown: