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U.S. Retail Electricity Rate Trends Analysis
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Love data! This is our usage for the month of Jan in this brutally cold winter Southeast NC
Even though I have access to our usage, it will still be a couple days until our final bill for Jan 2026 is accessable.
Super curious because Oct 2025 we went from straight 10 cents kWh billing to peak billing. So far our bills have not changed much and the Month of Dec 2025 was actually a little less Than the year before. The electric co-op told everyone to expect a general increase of $5 a month. However I use our thermostat to program around it as best I can.
Seems like we used just a little over 1,200 kWh for Jan 2026. Cant wait to see what the actual charge is now with peak billing. If like Dec 2025 most likely little change up or down. I chose one place on the graph Jan 27 to give an idea of our breakdown.
Peak rate (orange) is 19 cents kWh and Off peak (blue) is 7.9 cents kWh
One day Jan 27th Orange is peak usage
Even though I have access to our usage, it will still be a couple days until our final bill for Jan 2026 is accessable.
Super curious because Oct 2025 we went from straight 10 cents kWh billing to peak billing. So far our bills have not changed much and the Month of Dec 2025 was actually a little less Than the year before. The electric co-op told everyone to expect a general increase of $5 a month. However I use our thermostat to program around it as best I can.
Seems like we used just a little over 1,200 kWh for Jan 2026. Cant wait to see what the actual charge is now with peak billing. If like Dec 2025 most likely little change up or down. I chose one place on the graph Jan 27 to give an idea of our breakdown.
Peak rate (orange) is 19 cents kWh and Off peak (blue) is 7.9 cents kWh
One day Jan 27th Orange is peak usage
Do those figures include everything, meaning generation, tansmission and distribution? That's the way it is broken out here in a degreulated market where unitities aren't allowed to own the generation. If so your peak rate of 19 cents is below my flat rate of 21.6 cents.
Interesting. We're in East Central Missouri.
We have a 1,000 sq ft total electric home and our annual electric bill averages slightly under $100/month. Lowest bill last year $49 and highest $161. I think we're 9.5 cents summer and 14 cents/kwh winter.
We have a 1,000 sq ft total electric home and our annual electric bill averages slightly under $100/month. Lowest bill last year $49 and highest $161. I think we're 9.5 cents summer and 14 cents/kwh winter.
No, that does not include the service charge.
Stay tuned my electric bill should be in shortly.
Yes, very misleading when you don’t have all the charges included and that’s why when we talk about actual electric bill it’d be great if everybody puts the amount of kilowatt hours that they used and the actual payment as that is your actual cost of electricity.
I’m astounded at what some of you have on your electric bills. Talk about smoke and mirrors, that’s like a politician before Election Day!
Ours is very clean and simple.We really don’t need to know what the printed charge per kilowatt hour is we need to know what the bill is and the amount of kilowatt hours that the person used.
That is actually what the electricity is costing you per kilowatt hour. I have posted my bills often.
I think the last bill that I posted came out to approximately $.14 cents a kilowatt hour, including all charges. But I can’t do that until I see the actual bill this month. It will most likely be the biggest bill of the year after the biggest cold wave in God knows how long here in the southeast.
My bill will be on my account soon and I will post it here. It might even be today I don’t know.
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This is what my bill looks like. The distribution cost is listed twice because there was a rate increase mid-cycle. Addind the larger distribution charge to the generation and transmission charges provides a marginal rate of 21.3 cents per kWh. There is a flat customer charge of $11.30 on top of that bringing the full cost to 22.66 cents per kWh.
Separating generation from transmission and distribution was supposed to spur competition and lower rates. In reality it has had the opposite effect.
Wow! 166/734 =0.226 per kilowatt hour. Still better than CA though
and I think about the same on Long Island.(im posting Jan in a minute or two. I was waiting for Feb to come in but it is going to be almost the same)
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This is my bill that is for the month of Dec. I was waiting for JAN bill to come on as I already posted this someplace in BITOG I think.
For Dec (Jan bill) our cost for electricity was 13 cents a kilowatt hour.
160/1208=0.132
Yes, I saw that happening in the north. Can't talk politics here but I think safe to say special interests changed the way electricity is sold and the public pays more instead of less like they expected. Much the same on Long Island never mind a 6 billion dollar completed and tested nuclear plant that was never allowed to go live, spent another one plus billion dismantling it. That worked out great for Long Islanders too... (NOT) now they are building windmills off the coast... boy are the bills going to really increase once they get going!
This is my bill that is for the month of Dec. I was waiting for JAN bill to come on as I already posted this someplace in BITOG I think.
For Dec (Jan bill) our cost for electricity was 13 cents a kilowatt hour.
160/1208=0.132
Yes, I saw that happening in the north. Can't talk politics here but I think safe to say special interests changed the way electricity is sold and the public pays more instead of less like they expected. Much the same on Long Island never mind a 6 billion dollar completed and tested nuclear plant that was never allowed to go live, spent another one plus billion dismantling it. That worked out great for Long Islanders too... (NOT) now they are building windmills off the coast... boy are the bills going to really increase once they get going!
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I hope this helps....
My last power bill? $676. We have two data centers being built here and they're already trying to gouge for them. Everyone complained that EVs were going to raise power bills, but I didn't have a problem until they started building data centers. Even If I didn't have EVs it would have been over $500. What a joke.
That isnt bad at all really. Your paying 17 cents a kWh 500/2869 = 17.43 cents kWhMy last power bill? $676. We have two data centers being built here and they're already trying to gouge for them. Everyone complained that EVs were going to raise power bills, but I didn't have a problem until they started building data centers. Even If I didn't have EVs it would have been over $500. What a joke.
I think to myself, wait until you get some real price increases. Like people in CA pay double that, People on Long Island about 20% more than that, and gosh, I wont even try to figure out NYC
You are using a boat load of electricity but that is because you are also fueling your cars.
That's already up $0.03 from where it was at. They're preparing for the data centers. It is still deftinitely much cheaper than I was paying for gas.
Yeah, here in the south we have something what’s called super off peak option. Meaning we have the option if we have an to switch to super off peak pricing night times which is a big plus for EV owners. The trade-off is peak pricing which is 3 to 4 hours a day is very expensive.
However, with the super off peak option, your nighttime cost here would be five cents a kilowatt hour.
We don’t have all kinds of added on charges on our bills as you can see by my previous post so that five cents really is a good deal. It really is five cents I think to be exact 4.8 cents. And our service charge is fixed at $35 so the only additional cost is sales tax on what you use.
We have the main option and that’s eight cents a kilowatt hour and $.19 a kilowatt hour during peak times which is only three or four hours a day depending on winter summer.
I understand this thread is about electric prices and I’m going to post my most recent bill. Hopefully we’ll have it by tomorrow but as I shown I pay roughly $.13-$.14 to kWh hour when including all fees, taxes, meaning the actual payment comes out to that actual payment price.
But since we are in the energy discussion here, I was shocked when I went to Costco yesterday.
The price of gasoline was $2.27 a gallon at the Myrtle Beach Costco and I assume at Sam’s Club right down the road. That my friend is crazy. I can go back decades and remember paying that price.
But since we are in the energy discussion here, I was shocked when I went to Costco yesterday.
The price of gasoline was $2.27 a gallon at the Myrtle Beach Costco and I assume at Sam’s Club right down the road. That my friend is crazy. I can go back decades and remember paying that price.
We have the option to not flat rate our power, but I mostly work nights so I have been charging during the day.
In some states they regulate the usage charge but not the delivery. So they just charge more for delivery.
Tell me about it...
Effciency of power plants
33% coal
33%-43% natural gas
30%-32% oil
90% hydro
33% nuke
35%-47% wind
22% solar
33% coal
33%-43% natural gas
30%-32% oil
90% hydro
33% nuke
35%-47% wind
22% solar
Almost all more efficient than ICE.
Our electric co-op went the other way. Used to have the option to go to peak rates. Everybody was flat rate now there is no more flat rate.
Just two types of tiered, peak rate options
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