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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by aphextron on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:43PM (#17710601)
>Also California isn't most expensive, seems pretty much the same as many blue states. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/

>Data for 2016

This lists California at $0.15/kWh. I've never paid even close to that anywhere I've lived.

The current PGE residential rate of $0.28/kWh [0] is about the same as Honolulu, Hawaii, where 100% of electricity is produced from burning natural gas and petroleum.[1]

[0] https://www.pge.com/tariffs/electric.shtml

[1] https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/billing-and-payment/rates-a...

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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by rconti on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @05:39PM (#17711082)
Silicon Valley Electric was 8c when I lived there, 10c now.

My PG&E's lowest off-peak rate is now 16c, though I'm on a TOU plan and just installed solar, and I have generation through Peninsula Clean Energy so my bill is somewhat more complicated than the charts involved to send Apollo 11 to the moon.

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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by mmt on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:47PM (#17711966)
> Silicon Valley Electric was 8c when I lived there, 10c now.

If you mean Silicon Valley Power, the municipal electric utility for Santa Clara, it's now (as of Jan 2017) 11.82c [1] for residential non-TOU for the upper tier.

It's also only for the city of Santa Clara. Palo Alto has a municipal utility, but its rates are higher, and these are exceptions. AFAIK, the vast majority of California is served by a private utility (e.g. PG&E).

[1] http://www.siliconvalleypower.com/home/showdocument?id=6253

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Re:Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods... by zyren on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:09PM (#17711758)
I live in San Diego and I pay on average 40 cents per kw after everything. I used under 1000kw this last bill and the electricity portion was around $400, gas was $15, total bill around $432.
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