freedomatlast
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$0.0799/KwH
Since I gave the number(s) the OP requested, I don't understand taking issue with my adding something additional. ...
YMMV
I have a 12 foot ceiling. Should we be using the volume of the residence as the denominator?
It's just that it takes it far from what the OP was asking, and get's really complicated, and it's not sure what value there is in those added numbers...
Exactly.... and degree days, number in the household, R value of our insulation, shade tree coverage, and, and, and....
kWhrs, per cubic foot, per person, per degree day.... ?
I guess I'd turn it around - what is it you hope to learn? What numbers would help with that?
-ERD50
I think that would relate to HVAC efficiency. Better not go there...I have a 12 foot ceiling. Should we be using the volume of the residence as the denominator?
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I was joking! I think KWH is quite sufficient to compare relative rates for electricity. Obviously if you live in a McMansion with drafty windows, you are going to use more electricity than I do in my 1122 sq foot condo. And good luck standardizing for climate. I used to live in an older home in a very cold part of Canada and while electricity rates were the lowest in the nation, I had enormous bills. You can only standardize so many variables.
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With rates like those and plenty of sunshine I am surprised that everyone in Hawaii doesn't have solar panels!
I am always shocked to see how cheap electricity costs elsewhere. We pay through the nose here on Long Island.
Here on Long Island, PSE&G (formerly LIPA) splits the per-kwh charge into 2 parts. One is within the delivery and system charges and the other is a "power supply" charge which rises and falls fairly often (and is supposed to drop a little bit with our next bill).
I used 420 kwh for the ~month ending 7/21/14. It is usually my highest usage although this year I was away for 2 weeks in that time. Also, they read our meters every 2 months and provide an estimated reading on the off-months. This was an estimate reading so I expect my next bill, an actual meter reading, to be quite lower.
Adding the DSC and PSC together, which represents $75 of my $92 total bill, I paid 14.8 cents per kwh. If I were to use the entire bill which includes basic charges and some other small charges, I paid 22.0 cents per kwh.
shocked? Pun intended?
Oh cool I am the first Hawaii poster on this thread and I definitely going to win the competition as long as nobody from Maui or the Big Island posts.
Our average rates in Honolulu are $.346/KHW. With my solar system I use less than the base rate so I "only" pay about $.33. Fortunately the solar takes care of almost my entire bill, and I average $65/month which includes not only electricity for the house, but also for the Tesla. I figure less than $800/year of gasoline and electricity is pretty cheap.
The factory will not only be making batteries for use powering Tesla’s current and future lines of all-electric cars, but also for the “storage market.” That storage line gets thrown in quickly and then passed over in most press releases and media stories but, Bloomberg says, it’s actually a huge deal.