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High power bills impeding heat pumps, California’s electrification goals (calmatters.org)
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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

In much of California, it's not the electric energy costs that are high, it's the delivery/grid fees. Not that it matters as far as the electricity bill goes, but it's worth noting.

On my recent bill I paid 16¢/kWh for on-peak electric generation and 49¢/kWh for electric delivery. (There's a small baseline credit for delivery so it's a little more complicated, but you get the idea.)

So if someone tries to tell you electricity is expensive because CA is a hippie state with lots of solar, I would be a little skeptical.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

Yeah, a huge chunk of the California electric bill is paying for houses burned down after sparks from transmission started fires, and paying to power the risk of that happening again

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

In my location in Australia the cost of usage and cost of grid are separated.

I pay roughly 25c kw/h, and each day about $1 for infrastructure. ie whether I use 50kw or 1kw my cost to connect to the grid is the same.

This is for residential, but I presume it may be different for commercial and industrial connections.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile I keep hearing the UK has the most expensive electricity anywhere, sometimes renewables are blamed. I am paying 24p/kWh and my heat pump uses very little energy to run.