In much of California, it’s not the electric energy costs that are high, it’s the delivery/grid fees. Not that it matters as far as the electricity bill goes, but it’s worth noting.
On my recent bill I paid 16¢/kWh for on-peak electric generation and 49¢/kWh for electric delivery. (There’s a small baseline credit for delivery so it’s a little more complicated, but you get the idea.)
So if someone tries to tell you electricity is expensive because CA is a hippie state with lots of solar, I would be a little skeptical.
Yeah, a huge chunk of the California electric bill is paying for houses burned down after sparks from transmission started fires, and paying to power the risk of that happening again
Meanwhile I keep hearing the UK has the most expensive electricity anywhere, sometimes renewables are blamed. I am paying 24p/kWh and my heat pump uses very little energy to run.
In much of California, it’s not the electric energy costs that are high, it’s the delivery/grid fees. Not that it matters as far as the electricity bill goes, but it’s worth noting.
On my recent bill I paid 16¢/kWh for on-peak electric generation and 49¢/kWh for electric delivery. (There’s a small baseline credit for delivery so it’s a little more complicated, but you get the idea.)
So if someone tries to tell you electricity is expensive because CA is a hippie state with lots of solar, I would be a little skeptical.
Yeah, a huge chunk of the California electric bill is paying for houses burned down after sparks from transmission started fires, and paying to power the risk of that happening again
Meanwhile I keep hearing the UK has the most expensive electricity anywhere, sometimes renewables are blamed. I am paying 24p/kWh and my heat pump uses very little energy to run.
In my location in Australia the cost of usage and cost of grid are separated.
I pay roughly 25c kw/h, and each day about $1 for infrastructure. ie whether I use 50kw or 1kw my cost to connect to the grid is the same.
This is for residential, but I presume it may be different for commercial and industrial connections.