I have a regular 3-bedroom house...natural gas heat...no AC...and I pay around $80 per month. If I had to use AC...it would be out of sight. So I would compare it easily to Californa or AZ to prices.
I noticed that every business we walked into seemed positively obsessed about electrical conservation, even to the point of sacraficing what looked to me (an american) like saftey, physical comfort, etc. We were traveling in France and Italy.
Was this all good citizenship? If so, I've got to hand it to them.