<html><body><div style="font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div></div><div><span id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__">----- On Feb 17, 2021, at 11:21 AM, nanog <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:<br></span></div><div><span data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span data-marker="__DIVIDER__">Hi,</span></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="auto"><div>Using the sample bill on the GA power website you linked, I see a bottom line price of <span class="money">$76.17</span> for 606 kWh delivered to the customer. That is effectively 12.57 cents per kWh.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Utilities (both investor owned and coops) have a multitude of ways of hiding the effective price in a variety of fixed and variable fees not included in the nominal 'energy' fee. These include mandatory fixed connection fees and also fuel cost recovery fees that are tied to consumption.</div></div></div></blockquote><div>Exactly. In a message earlier today which is held and presumably lost due to moderation, I shared screenshots of an actual bill of mine here in California.</div><div><br></div><div>Long story short, using that bill I show that I paid a grand total of $239.14 for 656.928 KwH of electricity. That makes 36.4 cents per KwH.</div><div><div><br style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fcfdfe; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fcfdfe; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"></div><div>In addition to that, I also shared another bill, where I paid $2.63 for the privilige of providing the net with 31.993 KwH of energy. That's right. My solar panels produced more power than I consumed and I still sponsored the crooks at PG&E.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Utility companies are worse than airlines when it comes to hidden fees and surcharges. They know we have no choice.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The only reason I want more solar panels is to give a bigger middle finger to PG&E. Nothing is a better motivator to go green than to see PG&E go bankrupt. It's a sad state of affairs when the disgust for the utility company's deceptive practices somehow outweighs the need to save the planet. Yet here we are.</div><div> </div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Sabri</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>