Can I ask if the 14c/KWh is the rate you pay for generation only or the whole cost to deliver 1 KWh to your house (transmission,distriubtion,generation,customer connection plus fees). Put another way, if you consumed 1000KWh in a month would you have exactly a $140 electric bill?

The price per kWh is set at 12.623c/kWh, which they then adjust up and down a few hundredths of a cent via “rider” for fuel costs, it tends to hover around 14c/kWh in my experience. To this is added a $14 monthly Basic Customer Charge, and then state sales tax.

So in a month where I consume exactly 1000kWh, the bill would be ($0.14c/kWh*1000kWh + $14)*1.07 = 164.78.

Something I just now learned reading documentation kinda buried on the website, during the winter months, even on a standard rate plan, it’s 12.623c for the first 800 kWh, and then 11.623c for each additional kWh. I’m guessing to go easier on folks with electric heat? I’ve never come close to 800kWh…I may have to look back.

Ouch, so even on the fixed rate power plan you essentially 4.67:1 net export (as in you have to export 4 KWh at midday to import 1 KWh any other time of day)?

They don’t allow you to grid tie solar panels on a fixed rate power plan. If you attach solar panels to the grid you HAVE to be on a ToU plan, and that deal is actually getting worse on New Year’s Day for those who plan to export power. I’m honestly struggling to understand some details about that, most literature about it starts saying “The bridge rate is being grandfathered out” and stuff like that without explaining what it’s talking about, so if you’re a newcomer to the discussion, fuck off back to kindergarten, child.

I’m three states north of you and we’ve been running on our Cold Climate Heat pump for two winters now without any gas heating. This unit can still extract heat for the house when the outside temperature is -15°F, but its running pretty inefficiently.

Yeah we’re definitely designing HVAC against different climates. Down here, we never see temps as low as -15F. I don’t think I’ve ever seen 0F. Heat pumps struggle more to keep up in the summer here, mine has failed to keep the house at 75 a few times every year I’ve lived here, and there’s no such thing as strips to help out.

I’m not getting rid of gas without a whole house system capable of running a heat pump for at least a day, for power outage reasons. We’ll have winter storms that’ll take down the lines, and then I’m heating my house with a Glo-Warm, since it requires no power, and the gas system around here…I’ve seen it fail once, because someone didn’t call 811 before renting a backhoe.