Energy costs for your area?

[Brian Hall]

I live in southeast Oklahoma. My house is total electric. I receive the following type of email from my electricity supplier (Oklahoma Gas & Electric) each month. I'm curious how my costs compare to others around the world.

Oklahoma is an energy producing state, gas, oil and coal so our prices are lower than other areas in the U.S.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Well difference in climate, house size, family size and age of house will matter a lot. Where I live electricity is about 15.5 cents per kw-hr. With a monthly minimum fee to be connected.

 

[Timcognito]

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[Jimbob54]

UK

Gas heating and hot water and hob
Electric everything else

Year to date is about $1200. Family of 3

UK has had huge price fluctuations in last couple of years, past few months have been far cheaper per consumption unit than 2023 into the start of this year .

 

[Jimbob54]

Well difference in climate, house size, family size and age of house will matter a lot. Where I live electricity is about 15.5 cents per kw-hr. With a monthly minimum fee to be connected.

FML about £0.27 per kWh in the UK . More than double!

 

[Somafunk]

Here in Scotland my energy supplier is Octopus and I pay 23.96 pence (31 cents) per kWh with a standing charge of 62.12 pence (81 cents) per day.

I only use on average 4 kW per day and my monthly bills are around £60 or less ($78/month or $936/year)

I have an air source heat pump for hot water and heating through 5 radiators that was fitted 12 years ago by the council/social housing but i don’t use it/it’s switched off as my 1 bed bungalow is very poorly insulated and the heat output of the radiators cannot compensate for the heat loss through walls/floor/windows, for heating I use my multifuel/log burner stove fitted in the living room which can heat the small house effectively but i have it on 24hrs day/7days a week from November through to March/April. I’m not bothered about having access to hot water for washing dishes/myself as I have an electric shower.

The social housing company fitted a Tesla wall battery in the hope that It would offset the airsource running costs by storing cheap electricity at off peak rates and discharging as needed but with the increased electricity costs it’s sat unused and switched off.

If they spent a few £ insulating my house and fitting a couple of solar panels connected to the Tesla battery then my electrical costs be zero for the pittance that I use.

Can’t afford to do it myself otherwise I’d have it done.

 

[Mart68]

UK - leccy is 32 cents Kw/Hour. Last year they took £2400 off me direct debit.

There's only me in a small house and I'm out at work or asleep most of the time. I know I'm thousands in credit but not had time to sort it out.

They won't do a refund until they read the meter but they never come to read the meter anymore. Conveniently.

Can't have a smart meter due to 'Insufficient access'. They can put one outside but they want me to pay a grand for the privilege. Told them what they could do with that. Whole thing is just a massive scam.

 

[Timcognito]

Electricity price by country 2023 | Statista

The cheapest electricity prices in the world could be found in Iran in 2023, whereas the cost of electricity per kwh was highest in Europe.

www.statista.com

Not sure how accurate this is but clearly these are averages, as the US ranges from $.11 to $.32 and is shown as $.16 on this table

 

[Mart68]

11 cents an hour, that's practically free.

 

[Doodski]

There are multiple service providers in my area of Canada and they offer slightly different rates dependent if you want green electricity or natural gas fired generation etc. Over and above the electricity rates are riders for taxes, carbon taxes, utility provision etc and they usually come to more than the billing period electricity expense. So the kWh fee is but a fraction of the total expense per month.
Here is a comparison of them and below that are snips from web pages.

 

[voodooless]

This is my YTD:

The gray is the expected cost, the black is the real cost. The black line is my monthly payment. This is for electricity and gas combined. My house is free standing, from 1928, so not upto modern standards, but it’s going well for it’s age

I have an EV and charging isn’t very regular, so the summer months are more erratic.

I pay hourly changing prices for both gas and electricity, and the averages are about € 21 cent per kWh and around € 1 per m3.

I will be gas free in about 3 weeks. That will save a lot of money I’ll also be getting a lot more solar in the next 2 months, which should also slash off a lot of the energy bill, next to imbalance market trading with the new battery storage All that should bring down the bill to around € 50 to € 80 per month. But we’ll have to see where exactly it will end up…

This is what a day of electricity prices looks like:

This excludes a € 13 cent tax! As you can see, until 5:00 it’s basically free. Sometimes prices are even negative. Time to charge the car tonight!

 

[Philbo King]

It appears my rate is about 0.42/KWH. But as long as my solar array keeps working, my monthly bill is around $13.

We generate slightly more than we use; the current 'banked' excess is about 2 MWH.

 

[AnalogSteph]

UK - leccy is 32 cents Kw/Hour. Last year they took £2400 off me direct debit.

There's only me in a small house and I'm out at work or asleep most of the time. I know I'm thousands in credit but not had time to sort it out.

2400 quid? Do you have electric heating like @Somafunk or what? Doesn't sound totally unrealistic then, depending on how it's built (row? freestanding? insulation?).

They won't do a refund until they read the meter but they never come to read the meter anymore. Conveniently.

Around here the meters are read once a year (the pandemic times possibly excepted), and you can submit additional readings via an online form e.g. for when there's a price change at a specific date. Surely they can't just not read the meters at all while merrily billing you?

I used to pay 300 € and change a year, which slowly crept up to 400 and change, and then 2023 we had a massive price hike to like 0.58€ a kWh (now almost back down, currently 0.35ish I think) and I paid almost 600. At the same time, power consumption went down from about 950 kWh a year to 860ish, thanks to e.g. my new computer.
Heating (gas) has generally been around 600 a year, though there's a number of other expenses besides rent that sum up to almost 1800 a year for me (heating, janitor / maintenance + garden + winter, elevator, council tax, insurance, misc). As you can tell, yours truly resides in a flatpartment (that should keep everyone happy).

 

[Jimbob54]

As you can tell, yours truly resides in a flatpartment (that should keep everyone happy).

Just don't call it a condomoanium

 

[Mart68]

2400 quid? Do you have electric heating like @Somafunk or what? Doesn't sound totally unrealistic then, depending on how it's built (row? freestanding? insulation?).

Around here the meters are read once a year (the pandemic times possibly excepted), and you can submit additional readings via an online form e.g. for when there's a price change at a specific date. Surely they can't just not read the meters at all while merrily billing you?

Electric heating yes, but I still calculate they're taking at least £100 a month too much. It's only on at most for 50 hours a week.

Last time I sent a reading I was £2.5K in credit and that's almost a year ago.

I can cancel the DD I suppose, but otherwise you're at their mercy to plunder whatever they want.

 

[pablolie]

It is some two tiered model... My current bill:
300 kWh X $.14297/kWh = $42.89
193 kWh X $.16434/kWh = $31.72

There are also peak vs non-peak differences, can go as high as 0.186$/kWh

 

[nerdstrike]

UK energy prices got triple screwed by weakened currency, dependency on Russian gas and need to import energy (usually from France). That's how they got up to ~35p/kWh with a price capped by the regulator. It's gradually softened to ~27p/kWh but it's a way to go for it to reach the pre-shenanigans levels of 20p/kWh. You can do better if you're careful and use dynamic tariffs that drop when wind energy runs high, but for that you really need to put the effort in to move loads off peak.

In my view it is vital to avoid the predictive tariffs that energy providers offer. They always purposefully charge too much so they get a nice float at your expense, and I just don't think the "same bill all year round" is worth it. (UK market, probably applies elsewhere...)

 

[Timmy]

About two years ago, out of the blue, the German people suddenly grasped, that their very, very good and reliable energy supplier was actually a very, very evil and shamelessly price-cutting energy supplier – so that they proudly and happily pay kWh prices of around 0,37 Euro now. A »Basic Fee« of easily up to 100 Euros/year comes on top, of course.

 

[goat76]

The energy cost is pretty low in my area in the north of Sweden. There are 3 people in our household which is a mid-size apartment (77,5 m²). I have paid 5989 SEK which translates to $600 in total for the last 12 months. It’s fairly environmentally clean energy as most of it comes from hydroelectrical plants.

The low energy cost and the cold climate are probably the reasons why FaceBook has its European server halls in my town.

 

[Timmy]

I have paid 5989 SEK which translates to $600 in total for the last 12 months.

Would you like to post the respective amount of kWh, consumed during the last 12 months?