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$0.10 kwh is low for most of the US. Can I guess.... Western state or PNW?

Over here in PA I pay $0.095, so nine and a half cents, per KWh for electric supply, but then I pay that same amount for transmission, so it's functionally 19 cents per KWh, but maybe the person you're replying to isn't counting transmission fees?

Similar here in Maine under CMP. Something like 12.5 cents/Kwh, but with the delivery aspect factored in it's basically 28 cents/Kwh.

I always assume when people on here are talking their 'rates', that they are usually NOT factoring in the delivery fee unless stated.

But maybe some places are just really THAT cheap.

I pay 11.6 cents per kilowatt hour inclusive of everything (taxes too). My household used 647 kilowatt hours in April and the bill for the month was $75.02. The per-unit charge neglecting taxes and delivery is only 7.4 cents. This is in Washington state.

I don't know why anyone would not include the "delivery" fee, I think it really is that cheap in many places in the US.

Here in NYC the "supply" charge is much less than half of the total bill. If I add up all the fees and surcharges and taxes etc, the total ends up around 35 cents / KWh, which I thought was rather high until I heard about California ...

I pay around 10 cents per kWh in the southern US; we have a nearby nuclear plant. We do have a base fee just for the meter, but no separate transmission fee. My in-laws in Texas have an open market for generation but pay transmission separately.

why would you not include the transmission? residential customers just pay one bill and that's including the lines, maintenance.

In western states such as Oregon, Washington, it is actually 0.12KWH including transmission.

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