OK, the reports are in for 2010, is everybody going to move to Utah?

Who pays most for electricity?

The story.

The report.

Isn't Utah mostly desert? Maybe it's because of the ideal conditions for solar there? Maybe I should read the report before saying things I have no clue about...

LOL Bobb,

No there are a lot of things that determine the rates.

I gotta admit it surprised me.

Wow...

I bounced Utah's average kWh off of what I'd pay for that useage and came up $93.88  Not much of a difference to make me want to move there.  But it is interesting!

AZ that's close

IL is high.

For us.

Funny. I live in NY and I know most of us pay about 11-12 cents vs the 18+ they say is average for this state. I'm sure the price is driven up by NYC.

There are so many factors that go into how much electricity people consume and what the rate is. For instance, until fairly recently almost every house in the NorthWest (meaning Washington, Oregon and Idaho) was an "all electric home" with electrical resistance heating. Why? Because when the houses were built it was the most available and cheapest energy and electrical resistance heating equipment is also very cheap and has virtually no maintenance cost. That makes for a lot of cost for electricity when rates began to rise, but still the cost for natural gas and heating oil or propane was ZERO. Air conditioned houses were rare. That is changing as people are now converting to heat pumps. In my neighborhood it is prohibitively expensive to even think about natural gas. Energy costs might be lower but I could never afford the cost of bringing a natural gas line in.

I would be interested in seeing a study like Gerry posted where the total cost of energy was listed along with a breakdown on what percentage is electric, natural gas, oil, propane, etc. One kind all by itself doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot.

Does this include commercial use, or is this strictly residental? This is not clear- seems like the numbers are kinda high, but I do notice that most of the population seems oblivious to conservation of natural resources, like turning (high output) outside lights off, and phantom power. What is funny though, is the commentary on the cost of electricity manufacturing, stating that coal is one of the cheaper ways to produce electricity. Remember when they said that Nuclear technology was such a breakthrough that it would someday be like "getting electricity for free?" My how things change whenever reality sets in...

An inventive to get off Grid even a little.