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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by xxpor on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:15PM (#26139016)
CA power is hilariously expensive compared to the rest of the country. 10c is much closer to average.
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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by jeffbee on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:53PM (#26139236)
The weighted average price is 10.54¢ per kwh. In California it's 16. Both 5 and 35¢ are pretty poor estimates.
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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by kevinventullo on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:38AM (#26139454)
I paid $.36 last month living an hour north of SF.
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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by jeffbee on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:39AM (#26139464)
Average or marginal? Most PG&E customers have a “baseline allowance” with a higher marginal cost as you draw more energy over the month.
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Re:Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid by kevinventullo on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:51PM (#26174492)
Marginal. I was doing a back-of-the-envelope calculation about getting an EV and realized that the $/mile cost to charge it would be about the same as paying for gasoline on a car which gets 30 mi/gallon.
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