Hi.

A couple of friends and I were talking about the cost of electricity, and the merits of wind turbines and the like for lowering bills for standby equipment. It got me thinking, and I'm now wondering what prices people outside the uk (or inside it for that matter) pay for their electricity.

For example, I am currently with Npower (incompetent twits, but this is common with utility companies in my experience ), and their rates are 19.54p per kWh up to the first 728kWh per year, and a mere 9.06p/kWh after that. This is, incidentally, about twice what it was two years ago. For north americans, this is about US$ 0.3674 and US$0.17 per kWh respectively.

I pay around £40 a month for electricity, and that's after being fairly militant about cutting power usage wherever possible.

How much do YOU pay for electricity, eh?

pca