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Spaniard here, on my last bill I paid 0.120268 €/kWh, admittedly I'm on the free market but even on the regulated market the average price for March was 0.158719 €/kWh.

Is electricity really that cheap in the US? This chart shows that the average electricity price is 0.165 $/kWh, so I'm not sure what I'm missing: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...

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This is where I found the information, it might be wrong:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price...

I have no clue where the data for Spain comes from, in June 2022 the average price for the regulated market was 0.291347 €/kWh[0], that's ignoring the free market rates which are what 70% of Spaniards use (and they are cheaper when the market is volatile, like last year).

[0]: https://www.ocu.org/vivienda-y-energia/gas-luz/informe/preci...

US electricity pricing varies a lot, it’s ~$0.14/kWh in Maryland, we were paying something like ~$0.34/kWh in California, I’ve heard of <$0.10/kWh in hydro heavy areas like Washington state.

Data point: I pay ~$0.40/kWh in SF Bay Area.

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