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March 19, 2017, 08:31:18 AM |
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Any figure I quite for my own rate is "total $$$ I have to pay on the electric bill with EVERYTHING included / watts used on that bill".
Any figure that doesn't include ALL fees is not a valid number for comparison.
As a slightly extreme example, my "top tier base rate" when I was in Alliant Energy territory the winter or 2015/2016 was 2.3 cents/kwh or some such - but after adding in all the fees like "energy transmisson fee" and "fuel surcharge fee" and "franchise fee" and sales tax, even after the savings for Time of Day rate (ALLiant has by far the worst Time of Day rate setup I have ever seen, with very low total savings) my actual bill was normally 7.7 cents/kwh or a bit more total.
Part of that was I had to go through 2 tiers worth of consumption, very rough ballpark 1-1.5 KWH per lower tier, one at a bit over 8c/kwh the next at 5.5ish, to get TO the 2.3c tier as well - but I did figure out I was paying ballpark 65% of my bill to "fees" and sales tax, not to the base rate that is what most power companies like to post as their "rate".
Nice thing about Central Washington hydro-county PUDs - the base rate is MOST of the actual bill, unless you're on an industrial scale or LARGE business rate rate the only "fees" are the meter fee and sales tax - and even the industrial scale rates are generally adding a "peak KW usage" fee as the only other fee and the base rate is STILL the fairly large majority of your bill.
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