So, I live in Georgia & I’m happy to see Dems on the PSC, but electricity here is 8 cents per kWh. There were some big cost overruns adding nuclear reactors to Vogtle, but them and Watts Bar are the only people to add nuclear since 1990. Relative to a lot of other states, it’s hard to argue Georgians are being gouged.
And I really would like to know what’s in the data center deals, especially what happens when the data center goes tits-up 3 years into the life of a 40-year power plant
according to data from U.S. Energy Information Administration, which shows Georgia’s rate at exactly 15 cents per kilowatt-hour as of May 2025.
Nationally, average residential rates range from 17 to 17.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, placing Georgia 22nd among U.S. states for electricity costs — a position that makes it moderately priced compared to the rest of the country.
Looks like the EIA is figuring the total bill for some ‘typical’ customer, so you get the actual per-kWh cost plus the fixed service cost divided by whatever they think ‘typical’ use is.
$0.082/kWh most of the year, $0.087 summer, rising to ~$0.15 if you use over 650 kWh/month (which is a lot: my 3 br house tops out under 600 in Aug). Taxes & fees around 20%, so effectively $0.098 & 0.104. The kicker is the fixed service charge of $0.46/day = $16/month after taxes, effectively a 5.6 kWh/day minimum. That’s the part they’ve been raising. Commercial & industrial users pay proportionally less fixed fees, so their ‘typical’ kWh cost is lower.
Fixed charges may sometimes cover stuff like cleanup , decommissioning and waste management for nukes - if anyone actually cares about such things. Dunno if that’s the case in Georgia though. Nukes are complex long term things and they and their legacy often outlast the builder and operator companies - so they often will be , de-facto, “socialised” , one way or another.
What are the fees like though? I pay roughly $0.18/KWH bit I don’t have any additional fees, my bill doesn’t get broken down like that, just an additional $5 or so in local and state utility taxes.
New Hampshire chiming in, a customer of the oh-so-wonderful (puke puke!) Eversource… This months bill is 41.66 in service fees to buy 27.81 worth of electricity, at 18.6 cents per kWh.
Jesus Christ.
Every person who enabled this corruption and the price gouging of energy for Georgia’s consumers should be looking at a decades-long prison sentence.
no. they’re too big for prisons. they just need to be killed. they’re fascists anyway; it’s not like anything would be lost.
So, I live in Georgia & I’m happy to see Dems on the PSC, but electricity here is 8 cents per kWh. There were some big cost overruns adding nuclear reactors to Vogtle, but them and Watts Bar are the only people to add nuclear since 1990. Relative to a lot of other states, it’s hard to argue Georgians are being gouged.
And I really would like to know what’s in the data center deals, especially what happens when the data center goes tits-up 3 years into the life of a 40-year power plant
Your government wants you out on a limb.
Your government feels safe when you are in precariously ballanced.
I was reading this first, then I saw your 8c/kWh.
according to data from U.S. Energy Information Administration, which shows Georgia’s rate at exactly 15 cents per kilowatt-hour as of May 2025.
Nationally, average residential rates range from 17 to 17.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, placing Georgia 22nd among U.S. states for electricity costs — a position that makes it moderately priced compared to the rest of the country.
Looks like the EIA is figuring the total bill for some ‘typical’ customer, so you get the actual per-kWh cost plus the fixed service cost divided by whatever they think ‘typical’ use is.
This is the actual residential tariff sheet: https://www.georgiapower.com/content/dam/georgia-power/pdfs/tariffs/r.pdf
$0.082/kWh most of the year, $0.087 summer, rising to ~$0.15 if you use over 650 kWh/month (which is a lot: my 3 br house tops out under 600 in Aug). Taxes & fees around 20%, so effectively $0.098 & 0.104. The kicker is the fixed service charge of $0.46/day = $16/month after taxes, effectively a 5.6 kWh/day minimum. That’s the part they’ve been raising. Commercial & industrial users pay proportionally less fixed fees, so their ‘typical’ kWh cost is lower.
Fixed charges may sometimes cover stuff like cleanup , decommissioning and waste management for nukes - if anyone actually cares about such things. Dunno if that’s the case in Georgia though. Nukes are complex long term things and they and their legacy often outlast the builder and operator companies - so they often will be , de-facto, “socialised” , one way or another.
What are the fees like though? I pay roughly $0.18/KWH bit I don’t have any additional fees, my bill doesn’t get broken down like that, just an additional $5 or so in local and state utility taxes.
New Hampshire chiming in, a customer of the oh-so-wonderful (puke puke!) Eversource… This months bill is 41.66 in service fees to buy 27.81 worth of electricity, at 18.6 cents per kWh.
That’s good info. Thank you for adding it in.