btw, Hawaii has a $.38kwh charge. Be tough to top that.
“btw, Hawaii has a $.38kwh charge. Be tough to top that.”
I saw that too, in a report dated 2011. NH is higher than ME for example but the reason we both are near the bottom in monthly household costs is that we can use less (we heat with wood and use AC but for a few days a year). NH is appreciably more affluent than ME so we do use more, because we can.
I use about 475 kWh’s a month and the price, depending on the fuel charge or a surcharge to provide for complete reconstruction nearly every year due to ice, wind and snow storms that tear down the equipment runs about $110.00. If you figure it out it is about $.25 a kWh (that sounds too low of late, I will have to verify).
In 2010 during a February wind event we lost over 100 utility poles in my town alone. It took ten days to reconstruct the system. Then we had Snowtober in 2011. Another 7 days. Recently (thanksgiving) we had some snow, about a foot of very wet, sticky snow and more in the higher elevations, another four days and more reconstruction. Yea, NH suffers because we are the most forested in USA, the trees along the ROW’s are old and tall, and fall down.