California, Penn’s home state, has the highest average retail electricity rates in the country by a large margin, a factor that seems to motivate his article.
Ain’t planning great?
California, Penn’s home state, has the highest average retail electricity rates in the country by a large margin, a factor that seems to motivate his article.
Ain’t planning great?
I naturally feel that shutting down the nukes, buying power from solar panels and windmills, and refusing to burn off the bush so the supply is interrupted by bushfires are bound to make things more expensive.
I’m sure the Greens have a different hate-list.
Indeed Boganboy and the idiots running Australia are headed down the same path.
I’m not sue what California has can be called “planning”.
There’s plenty of regulations, but even the most incompetent planners would work out that they won’t be able to charge EVs if they get rid of petrol cars by 2035.
It’s going to be amusing to watch their ideals run up against the hard realities of physics and economics.
Will they take the German route, and just pretend it never happened, or the Venezuela route, and plough on regardless?
What actual prices are consumers paying? Articles like this never tell you.
OK, I’m paying around €0.22 a kWh, thanks to a very long contract and the government slashing its various levies to prevent rioting in the streets. That’s probably the cheapest electricity, to domestic consumers, in Germany. The supplier is losing tons of money on me.
New contracts come in anything between 40 and 70 cents. One euro per kWh electricity is probably just a matter of (very short) time.
Alas all too true, TBH.
@Chester
Will they take the German route, and just pretend it never happened, or the Venezuela route, and plough on regardless?
They will take the Scottish route and whine that they aren’t getting enough subsidy from the central government.
I’m paying 21p/kWh daytime and 9p/kWh at night, but that contract only lasts until April. It’ll be horrendous on the new contract then but I can’t yet find out how bad. They’ve stopped publishing prices on their website! A quick quote from another big supplier is 47p/kWh daytime and 17p/kWh at night, so about double currently. ☹️