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Ah gotcha, so they're not actually paying 0.05 now and they probably won't pay 0.26 in the future?

If it hadn’t been for Germany being one big area in terms of electricity pricing, all swedens four electricity areas would have been far below that. Now our two southernmost areas are infected by what I understand is southern German prices.

https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/

It doesn’t quote which price that is, which matters for this discussion, but I routinely pay 5c or less for energy generated in the states.

From what I read, there are countries in Europe where it's ~0.40€/kWh (like Germany).

Here in France it's ~0.20€/kWh

I had to go to Hyderabad, India for a family emergency. Electricity here is on a progressive scale from 1 rupee/kWh up to 9 rupees. 1 rupee is about 1.25 cents. It’s got to be subsidized, just like how water is free.

The price of electricity in Quebec is CAD0.078 per kWh, which is 5.5 cents US.