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The average price paid for residential^W power in California last year was 16 cents, not 30, not 40.

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Not sure where you’re getting 16 cents, the lowest PG&E tier is 24 cents [0]

[0] https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/rate-plans/how-ra...

To add, Santa Clara city is served by Silicon Valley Power which I believe has substantially lower rates than PG&E.. there may be other such local providers..

Confirmed for Santa Clara -- 11 cents for the first 300 kWh, slightly less for off-peak hours (if you install a Time of Use meter): https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/home/showpublisheddocumen...

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ According to their data the average includes all customers. For residential alone (their table 8) the average was 19.15 cents.

I'm in Palo Alto and I pay 14 cents. Yes, we also have our own local provider.

Maybe that is the statewide average, but I've haven't paid anything close to that low in years.

We paid 33 cents / kWh on the bay area last year. Not sure how the rest of CA is doing.

> Not sure how the rest of CA is doing.

The parent provided a figure: 16 cents.

I'm on T3 with an excessive use surcharge, so I'm closer to 45 cents here in the North Bay.

> We paid 33 cents / kWh on the bay area last year. Not sure how the rest of CA is doing.

Forget “the rest of California”, that's extremely high for the Bay Area. Last year, SF Area average retail electricity prices by month ranged between 22.9 ¢/kW and 24.0 ¢/kW.

https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/averageenergyp...

https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...

Most of my usage is in tier 2 at $0.31443/kWh. In practice the actual bill comes out to $0.44/kWh because of all the random other complicated cruft.

Check out slide 28: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUCWebsite/Content/Ne...

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