alt Hacker News> The median bill is estimated to be $135 – $165/month
I have a hard time believing this; in the Bay Area, the privilege of simply having a 200A connection is $130/month.
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verteu • yesterday at 10:22 PM
FWIW, one source is https://www.eia.gov/electricity/sales_revenue_price/pdf/tabl...
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stahtops • yesterday at 11:12 PM
Where? My minimum delivery charge is $0.41 a day.
Excuse me? This is the basic rate:
https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...
You pay $0.40317/day for the connection but you get back $58.23 twice per year. That’s $30.70 per year.
It’s the price of the electricity that’s ridiculous in PG&E territory, not the price of the connection.
Note that many commercial users have a very different structure and pay monthly for their peak usage, measured over a 15 minute interval, and separately for their actual energy usage. So if you get a commercial 200A connection, max it out for 15 minutes, and then leave it idle for the rest of the month, you may pay something silly.