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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by jeffbee on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:37PM (#26175366)
The average price paid for residential^W power in California last year was 16 cents, not 30, not 40.
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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by yumraj on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:27PM (#26175801)
Not sure where you’re getting 16 cents, the lowest PG&E tier is 24 cents [0]

[0] https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/rate-plans/how-ra...

To add, Santa Clara city is served by Silicon Valley Power which I believe has substantially lower rates than PG&E.. there may be other such local providers..

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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by spear on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:18AM (#26176196)
Confirmed for Santa Clara -- 11 cents for the first 300 kWh, slightly less for off-peak hours (if you install a Time of Use meter): https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/home/showpublisheddocumen...
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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by jeffbee on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:45PM (#26175921)
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ According to their data the average includes all customers. For residential alone (their table 8) the average was 19.15 cents.
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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by wumpus on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:41AM (#26176363)
I'm in Palo Alto and I pay 14 cents. Yes, we also have our own local provider.
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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by zippergz on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:05AM (#26176075)
Maybe that is the statewide average, but I've haven't paid anything close to that low in years.
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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by ed25519FUUU on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:40PM (#26175400)
We paid 33 cents / kWh on the bay area last year. Not sure how the rest of CA is doing.
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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by kelnos on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:43PM (#26175425)
> Not sure how the rest of CA is doing.

The parent provided a figure: 16 cents.

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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by gothroach on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:50PM (#26175493)
I'm on T3 with an excessive use surcharge, so I'm closer to 45 cents here in the North Bay.
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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:04PM (#26175606)
> We paid 33 cents / kWh on the bay area last year. Not sure how the rest of CA is doing.

Forget “the rest of California”, that's extremely high for the Bay Area. Last year, SF Area average retail electricity prices by month ranged between 22.9 ¢/kW and 24.0 ¢/kW.

https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/averageenergyp...

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Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now by zbrozek on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:52AM (#26176788)
https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...

Most of my usage is in tier 2 at $0.31443/kWh. In practice the actual bill comes out to $0.44/kWh because of all the random other complicated cruft.

Check out slide 28: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUCWebsite/Content/Ne...

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