I am having a REALLY hard time wrapping my brain around this statement. Electric bills in winter expected to be around $800/month
A lot of you just have no conception how much we take it up the ass in many of the northeastern states.
In Connecticut we have a "deregulated" electric system that has a crap load of environmental and aesthtic regulations dumped on on it.
What would you like?
That the only new power plants allowed are natural gas powered ones -- and we don't have enough pipeline capacity in winter to supply gas for both electricity and home heating oil, and no state will approve new LNG terminals or pipelines?
That in Connecticut our coal fired plants import their coal from Indonesia (you know, that country between Australia and Vietnam, somewhere west of the Philipines) because it burns cleaner then coal mined in the U.S.?
That the southwestern part of the state didn't like the look of high tension lines, so when one was desperately needed since they couldn't build a new power plant there, the state agreed to charge all ratepayers statewide to install UNDERGROUND a frigging 60 mile long 345kV transmission line?
It's as expensive for electricity here as in Hawaii for goodness sake.
Bottom line:
I live alone in 600 s.f. house.
February's bill was 527kWh for $110.58. My only electric pig is the sump pump for the basement till I can get an mini-excavator in and replace 50 year old drain pipes that have collapsed.
The *average* residential customer is 700kWh, so that's up around $150 and I bet that includes a lot of apartment dwellers and people with natural gas stoves. I can't imagine a typical family, typical single family home, electric dryer & stove being under $200.