Latest table of electric rates

tomturbomatic · Nov 18, 2011

Good Graph Friday: To save on your electric bill, move to UtahBy Allison Linn

Who pays most for electricity?
Your home electric bill varies widely depending on where you live.
THE FIVE LOWEST
State Avg. consumption
(kilowatt-hours/month) Avg. retail price
(cents per kilowatt-hour) Avg. monthly bill
Utah 786 8.71 $68.43
New Mexico 659 10.52 $69.35
Montana 845 9.16 $77.37
Wyoming 883 8.77 $77.43
Colorado 709 11.04 $78.22
THE FIVE HIGHEST
State Avg. consumption
(kilowatt-hours/month) Avg. retail price
(cents per kilowatt-hour) Avg. monthly bill
Hawaii 601 28.1 $168.86
Maryland 1096 14.32 $156.94
Alabama 1384 10.67 $147.69
Connecticut 750 19.25 $144.40
Texas 1199 11.6 $138.99
SOURCE: Energy Information Administrationmsnbc.com

It’s that time of the year: It's darker, colder, and we're fretting about the arrival of the electric bill.

You have a lot more to worry about if you live in Connecticut than if you live Colorado.

The Energy Information Administration this week released the most recent data comparing Americans’ average electricity bills by state.

The 2010 figures show that residents of Hawaii, Maryland and Alabama have a lot more to fear in their electric bill than folks living in Utah, New Mexico or Montana.

Send me your story ideas

Follow us on Facebook

Follow me on Twitter

There are plenty of reasons why electric bills vary much more widely than, say, the price you pay at the gas pump.

Jonathan Cogan, an information specialist with the EIA, said one big help is if your energy comes from a low-cost source, like hydropower plants in the Pacific Northwest or coal-fired plants elsewhere in the country.

In addition, the cost depends on how much power people use. In the South, for example, people depend heavily on electricity for air conditioning in the summer and are more likely to use electricity for heat in the winter, Cogan said.

In the Northeast, on the other hand, air conditioning is less prevalent and most people use other power sources, like gas, for heating.

The full list is available here.

Related:

Where the renewable energy is

Sorry the table structure collapsed in the copy/paste operation. The link contains a link to the whole table.

http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/16/8844102-good-graph-friday-to-save-on-your-electric-bill-move-to-utah

hunter · Nov 18, 2011

the northeast has less air conditioning?

Is this article kidding? When I lived in the northeast EVERYTHING was air conditioned. Humidity ya know ;-).

Living in Colorado even though our summers do get very hot, overall lower humidity means I don't use A/C at home. Our consumption, even with my wife home during the day, is typing < 600 kwH per month, sometimes less than 500. Good thing in summer as we have a tiered rate plan and you pay significantly more for power over 500 kwH per month!

whirlcool · Nov 18, 2011

In Texas, our electric is deregulated. It think it's been 5 or 6 years since that happened. When it did our rates shot through the roof. Only after some investigations did the price come down.

I'm with Ambit energy. Last year I paid 9.1 cents and this year it went up to 10.1.
Before deregulation, we were paying about 8.1.

Is Connecticut deregulated? With those rates I imagine so. Before deregulation all you heard about is how cheap your electricity will become and how much better it will be for you. Well, history now shows that states that have deregulated their electricity pay more, much more than states who have not.

Who's lining their pockets with the cash?

hunter · Nov 18, 2011

There are 2 costs:

There are 2 costs for deregulated power:

Generation
Distribution

I found living in Mass generation DID go down.
But distribution went WAY up.

Maintaining the grid isn't cheap, alas.

DADoES · Nov 18, 2011

My rate on the local cooperative varies on every billing. They have fixed "base" rates for generation, transmission/distribution, and local/office but there's an adjustment (CRF - Cost Recovery Factor) to compensate for variables such as generation fuel costs that changes on every billing. The CRF is occasionally a reduction, but not as often as in the past (~three+ years ago).

Generation base = $0.04688/KWH
T/D base = $0.01633/KWH
Local/office base = minimum 475 KWH @ $0.03755/KWH ($17.84) + $0.01871/KWH over 475

My last bill covering period of 9/27 to 10/26 had usage of 1383 KWH and the bottom-line rate was only $0.08732/KWH (Generation CRF was a reduction).

Previous bill to that for period of 8/27 to 9/26, 2126 KWH, $0.0752/KWH (also a generation CRF reduction, which is rare two consecutive months).

2/26 to 3/27, 1615 KWH, $0.15641/KWH (CRF was an increase of $0.0375/KWH) ... so there's an example how much the bottom-line rate can vary.

Highest usage over the past summer was 2305 KWH, 7/27 to 8/26, and that's running the A/C at 79°F to 81°F.

westie2 · Nov 18, 2011

Here are our rates

Our electric is city owned. Our power comes from hydroelctric with coal fired plants as bake up.

Rates at this link

http://siloamsprings.com/departments/electric/elctric_rates.php

dj-gabriele · Nov 18, 2011

Oh, even Hawaii is cheap by our standards

For a YEARLY use of 2700 kWh I pay an average of 22 eurocents per kWh (.30$/kWh!) and I'm with the cheapest retailer we have available!

launderess · Nov 18, 2011

Since One Just Made An Online Payment

Thus had the bill out on my desk anyway:

Supply - 9.3144cents/KWh

Merchant Function Charge - $1.94

GRT & Other Tax Surcharges - $0.72

Basic Service Charge - $16.80

Delvery Charge - $29.88

SBC/RPS System Charges - $1.03

Temporary NYS Surcharge 0.4682 cents/kWh - $1.40

GRT and Other Tax Surcharges - $2.52

All the above are added to sum up total delivery charges then:

Sales Tax @4.5000% is added - $3.70

jerrod6 · Nov 18, 2011

<span id="internal-source-marker_0.49935240438207984" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I live in SE Pa. and we can choose our energy supplier. If we don’t choose one we have to use our local supplier as default, which in my case, would be PECO Energy. When we choose a supplier we pay costs associated with energy and transmission to our selected supplier but we are still billed by our local supplier for costs associated with distribution and connection.
 
This year I am paying my selected energy supplier for energy and transmission 0.0899 for each Kwh used and I am paying my local supplier 0.05960 per Kwh for distribution(delivery to my house) and I am paying my local supplier a flat 7.20 each month for connection charge 
 
If you add up the total costs per Kwh hour I think it comes to .1495 cents per Kwh.

On the other hand if I did not choose a supplier and used my local company for energy, distribution and transmission I think I would pay per Kwh:
0.10270 for energy
0.00730 for transmission
0.05960 for distribution
0.00140 for Alternative energy portfolio
The total for these would be 0.17100 per Kwh. 

These are the winter rates for my local supplier. In the summer months( June through Sep) the rates are higher after you use over 500Kwh.
Looking back the local supplier costs per Kwh was 0.16389 for up to 500Kwh and then the charge was 0.17650 for every Kwh over 500. The difficult issue is that the local supplier changes the rates every 3 months based on market demand.

The local suppler also had a winter discount for Heat pump use that was around 05 cents per KWh but that is being discontinued after Dec of this year and folks with Heat pumps or electric resistance heat will pay whatever the standard rate is.

Using my selected supplier for energy and my local supplier for distribution my highest summer bill was the period from 6/28 to 7/28. I was billed 137.19 for energy and transmission, 90.95 for distribution and 7.20 for customer charge and a .06 credit for state taxes, for a total of $235.28. I used 1,526 kwh.

supersuds · Nov 18, 2011

Strange

I wonder where on the Energy Information Administration website msnbc got that info?

If you look at page 10 of the EIA pdf linked below, you can see that the cheapest states in August 2011 were:

1) Idaho                8.09 cents per kwh

2) Washington      8.20 cents per kwh

3) North Dakota    8.33 cents per kwh

4) Arkansas          8.86 cents per kwh

5) Utah                  8.88 cents per kwh

The most expensive were:

1) Hawaii               33.67 cents per kwh

2) New York          18.29 cents per kwh

3) Connecticut       18.04 cents per kwh

4) Alaska               17.64 cents per kwh

5) New Hampshire 16.50 cents per kwh

Electricity - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

www.eia.gov

supersuds · Nov 18, 2011

Oh, wait a minute...they were looking at a table of 2010 rates and also going by average consumption. Sorry.

I'm happy to see Tennessee still leads the nation in electricity consumption per capita!

Electricity - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

www.eia.gov

coldspot · Nov 19, 2011

The rates here are not bad. I have all electric avg bill winter is 65 dollars summer can run from 45 to about 89 dollars.

http://www.jpenergy.com/resrates.aspx

Latest table of electric rates

Help Support :

tomturbomatic

Well-known member

hunter

Well-known member

whirlcool

Well-known member

hunter

Well-known member

DADoES

Well-known member

westie2

Well-known member

dj-gabriele

Well-known member

launderess

Well-known member

jerrod6

Well-known member

supersuds

Well-known member

Electricity - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

supersuds

Well-known member

Electricity - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

coldspot

Well-known member

Similar threads

Latest posts