----- On Feb 17, 2021, at 11:21 AM, nanog <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: Hi,
> Using the sample bill on the GA power website you linked, I see a bottom line > price of $76.17 for 606 kWh delivered to the customer. That is effectively > 12.57 cents per kWh. > Utilities (both investor owned and coops) have a multitude of ways of hiding > the > effective price in a variety of fixed and variable fees not included in the > nominal 'energy' fee. These include mandatory fixed connection fees and also > fuel cost recovery fees that are tied to consumption. Exactly. In a message earlier today which is held and presumably lost due to moderation, I shared screenshots of an actual bill of mine here in California. Long story short, using that bill I show that I paid a grand total of $239.14 for 656.928 KwH of electricity. That makes 36.4 cents per KwH. In addition to that, I also shared another bill, where I paid $2.63 for the privilige of providing the net with 31.993 KwH of energy. That's right. My solar panels produced more power than I consumed and I still sponsored the crooks at PG&E. Utility companies are worse than airlines when it comes to hidden fees and surcharges. They know we have no choice. The only reason I want more solar panels is to give a bigger middle finger to PG&E. Nothing is a better motivator to go green than to see PG&E go bankrupt. It's a sad state of affairs when the disgust for the utility company's deceptive practices somehow outweighs the need to save the planet. Yet here we are. Thanks, Sabri
