Electric Cost kWh Your Area?
Rates are tiered just like they are down here but if an individual uses 1000 kWh down here every two months (500 per month) they soon find themselves paying the eqvt of fifty US cents per kWh from the...
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While it doesn't seem as draconian as Mexico, Southern California Edison is close. 4 Tiers, baseline allotment is around 375KWh depending on exact location.
Baseline rate is $0.15,
Tier 2 is 100-130% baseline at $0.19
Tier 3 is 130-200% baseline at $0.25
Tier 4 is over 200% baseline at $0.31
Plus lots of other "fees"
If you live on the coast and don't need AC it isn't too bad. When I lived in a small condo 30mi from the beach my bill was around $30. I now live inland. For my current small 1200ft home in non summer months my bill is typically $130-150. Inland summers can be brutal, with many days over 100, some over 110. AC is pretty much required even though I set it to 78 or 80. My summer bills range from $450-$600.
So averaged out summer is about $0.28/KWh winter about $0.20
SCE brags on their website that "About a quarter of our customers never exceed Tier 1" So that means they have set the baseline so low that 75% of their customers DO exceed it! Then they try to shame you by stating if you are in tier 3 you are "using a considerable amount of electricity". REALLY?? It only takes about 500KWh to get into Tier 3. In todays energy driven society that is not really that much. I own energy efficient HE washer/dryers, energy efficient refrigerator, energy efficient dishwasher that I never run the heat dry cycle on and every appliance possible is natural gas. ALL my lighting is either CFL or LED. My TV is LCD. But I also have 5 people (sometimes 6) living in my home with my wife being stay at home. I thing generally per capita we do pretty good, but AC when you need it uses a lot of energy no matter what way you look at it. So SCE is trying to shame everyone into living like they are back in the stone age using one light bulb, and thanking them for charging outrageous amounts of money for it. I really don't like SCE (for many reasons) but other SoCal providers are just about as bad. Really California has done it to ourselves and if my entire extended family did not live 2 hours or less away, I would have left the state years ago.
Baseline rate is $0.15,
Tier 2 is 100-130% baseline at $0.19
Tier 3 is 130-200% baseline at $0.25
Tier 4 is over 200% baseline at $0.31
Plus lots of other "fees"
If you live on the coast and don't need AC it isn't too bad. When I lived in a small condo 30mi from the beach my bill was around $30. I now live inland. For my current small 1200ft home in non summer months my bill is typically $130-150. Inland summers can be brutal, with many days over 100, some over 110. AC is pretty much required even though I set it to 78 or 80. My summer bills range from $450-$600.
So averaged out summer is about $0.28/KWh winter about $0.20
SCE brags on their website that "About a quarter of our customers never exceed Tier 1" So that means they have set the baseline so low that 75% of their customers DO exceed it! Then they try to shame you by stating if you are in tier 3 you are "using a considerable amount of electricity". REALLY?? It only takes about 500KWh to get into Tier 3. In todays energy driven society that is not really that much. I own energy efficient HE washer/dryers, energy efficient refrigerator, energy efficient dishwasher that I never run the heat dry cycle on and every appliance possible is natural gas. ALL my lighting is either CFL or LED. My TV is LCD. But I also have 5 people (sometimes 6) living in my home with my wife being stay at home. I thing generally per capita we do pretty good, but AC when you need it uses a lot of energy no matter what way you look at it. So SCE is trying to shame everyone into living like they are back in the stone age using one light bulb, and thanking them for charging outrageous amounts of money for it. I really don't like SCE (for many reasons) but other SoCal providers are just about as bad. Really California has done it to ourselves and if my entire extended family did not live 2 hours or less away, I would have left the state years ago.
