Check your last bill, it is supposed to show the cost per kw/h used.
Also most power companies - due to deregulation, and sharing of their
power line infrastructure with competitors, charge a line usage fee
which is generally the same cost as your power costs - even if you use
the original power company - to make it fair, they too will charge the
line usage fee. (how it that fair?!?!?) So if your bill was $50 this
month, it is generally then $100 for the month, then the taxes, fees,
etc... get heaped ontop of that and before you know it you're paying
like $135 for your monthly bill...
Now, once Obama passes the "Cap & Kill Jobs" energy bill, expect your
energy costs to go up another 33% - oh joy!!! :-/
Curt
Brian Lanning wrote:
Suppose my power company claims that the charge is
$0.02407 per
killowatt/hour. If I have a computer (or anything) that draws maybe 100
watts. that should be 0.1kw/h x 0.02407 x 24 hours = 5.7768 cents per day
or $1.73 a month. I've been under the impression for quite some time that
it costs $20 a month to run a typical modern desktop computer 24 hours a day
for a month. I know there are taxes and fees thrown into the power bill.
But what's wrong with my math? Was I wrong before or am I wrong now? I got
this kw/h price from the power company web site burried in a pdf somewhere.
It looked like the right price to me. Maybe the actual charge is much
higher?
brian