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Electricity Prices by Country

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Re: Electricity Prices by Country

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Percentage of a daily wage? What is the basis for these numbers? I am in an extraordinarily cheap part of North America in terms of electricity, but I can say that my costs are well above the 1-2% of my daily wage. And that is only the costs I pay in my monthly bill. Lord knows how much electricity I also burn at work doing my job.

Re: Electricity Prices by Country

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Norway (where I'm from) is somewhat complex, because the country is divided into five regions, and the northernmost regions have poor transfer capability to the southern regions.

The southern regions, however, have quite good transfer capacity to export (to European countries), so those regions often have to compete with export prices.

What this means, is that the prices can vary significantly withing Norway. While we up in northern Norway paid around $0.0005 / kWh last summer, my relatives south paid something like $0.3-$0.4 / kWh. It's been a pretty big deal for the past years.

Our energy production is almost purely hydro, with wind and solar as very distant second and third source. All our LNG is more or less sold off to Europe.

Re: Electricity Prices by Country

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My electricity is rather cheap here in the US(Dallas). It's averages around 7-8 cents a KwH. The problem I face is delivery and b.s surcharges. It can easily double my rate to around 15-16 cents a KwH.

Isn’t that the case everywhere (in the USA)? Wholesale electricity is cheap, but you’ve gotta pay to have it delivered. If you’re a big enough customer (like a data center), you can pay near wholesale rate by building your own infrastructure to a large substation, but then you’re paying to maintain that infrastructure.

Re: Electricity Prices by Country

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What good is $0/kWh in Sudan, Ethiopia, .. if most people don't have access?

It's not useful but this isn't article arguing about what countey has the "best" electricity. It's just data about prices

His remark is useful. If there is no electricity available, there is no price. You can also ban selling bread for above 1 cent and mark on your country stat your bread is 1 cent.. But nobody has bread
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