And here's a long term bet with some links to the dept of energy. 
Apparantly inflation has been groing faster than the cost of
electricity.  Therefore electricity is cheaper now than it was last
year, in adjusted 1995 dollars.  The dept. of energy indicates that it
will continue to fall through 2007.

So I suppose I shouldn't complain.  Would still be nice to have sub
$0.05/kWH electricity though.

Then you look a solar power.  About $4 per watt for an average panel,
new.  Over a year you get perhaps 4000 good solar hours (10 hours a
day is 3650 hours).  So you are getting 4kWH per year out of a $4
investment.  About 10 times the cost of electricity.  After
installtion and all the other equipment needed you're still looking at
a 15 year payback, at which point the solar panel might be running at
80% efficiency, if it's still running at all.

-Adam


On 11/2/05, M. Adam Davis <stienman@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to
> http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html
> Michigan is slightly below average.  Kentucky has 6.5 cents per kWH,
> while New York is at 15 cents per kWH.
>
> It would be interesting to peg the cost of electricity against the
> cost of living.  I understand that canada's cost of living is lower
> than the US, but I don't know if it's significant, or by how much.
> This could be one reason why electricity is cheaper (pay the workers
> less)...
>
> Obviously it's time to outsource our power needs.  We're already doing
> it with oil, time to do it with electricity.
>
> -Adam
>
> On 11/2/05, M. Adam Davis <stienman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've got a few extension cords, and I'm only in Michigan.  Mind if I
> > buy some electricity from you?  Alternately we could start up Tesla's
> > experiments again.  (pun intended:)
> >
> > Here we get (I believe) $0.09 for the first 500 or so kWH, then $0.11
> > thereafter.  Your $0.050[CAD] translates to $0.042[USD], which is less
> > that half what I'm paying.
> >
> > Are your utilities regulated?  We went through deregulation several years ago...
> >
> > -Adam
> >
> > On 11/2/05, Herbert Graf <mailinglist2@farcite.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:31 -0700, Bob Axtell wrote:
> > > > Peter wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Byron A Jeff wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Electricity: $0.0517/khw
> > > > >> NG: $1.679/therm
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > How come your power is so cheap ? Is this a regional thing ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > Wow! I pay $.11/kwh. where do you live, Byron?
> > >
> > > I don't know about Byron, but in Ontario, Canada the rates for
> > > electricity are (all in CND$ of course):
> > >
> > > $0.050/kWh (first 750kWh)
> > > $0.058/kWh thereafter
> > >
> > > Last year it was $0.043 and $0.047, but that rate couldn't last forever
> > >
> > > Natural gas is $0.35325/cubic meter, I don't know how that converts to
> > > "therm".
> > >
> > > TTYL
> > >
> > >
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