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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
To me the real cost of electricity is the total bill divided by the number of KWHs. This is because that is what comes out of my pocket.
The taxes, {because we can charges} and fees are all part of the total cost. The advertised price per KWH doesn't include all of these and is like 50% of the total out of pocket price per KWH. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
To me the real cost of electricity is the total bill divided by the number of KWHs. This is because that is what comes out of my pocket. The taxes, {because we can charges} and fees are all part of the total cost. The advertised price per KWH doesn't include all of these and is like 50% of the total out of pocket price per KWH. Just renewed contract with a naked price going from one supplier at 7.4 cents and now 3.5 cents Kwh. After grid fees (which are same for all providers), transport loss, environment, tax it's 20 cents all in. or 82.5% of the total price is not for the juice itself. |
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PecosRiverM
Veteran Cruncher The Great State of Texas Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 1054 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Base Charge $5.00
----------------------------------------Energy $.079939 Delivery $.027415 Tax $7.82 Tax $7.98 Used 3,317 kWh (avg $.118 kWh per bill)     |
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KodeX
Advanced Cruncher Germany Joined: Aug 17, 2006 Post Count: 96 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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$0.27 per KWH - 100% renewable energy provider, located in Germany.
Costs are a bit higher for renewable energy atm but that is okay, since it reduces CO2 footprint. At WCG we support projects like "The Clean Energy Project". I think it is worth to support energy providers, that actually use clean technology, as well. :) |
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verlyol-belgium
Cruncher Belgium Joined: Jul 24, 2008 Post Count: 44 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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0.28€ KWH in Belgium...
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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About €0.17 including tax here. Also, just changed my PSU on the Ryzen 1400 from an "unbranded" PSU I've had for years to a new Seasonic S12II 620W 80 Plus Bronze which dropped power usage by 10 Watts (and I even added a fan).
---------------------------------------- - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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BobbyB
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Apr 25, 2020 Post Count: 638 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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about 11 cents CAD winter and about 7 cents CAD summer (8 / 5 cents USD respectively) per KWH
Where I am (Quebec, Canada) all power is hydro |
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Miklos. M
Cruncher USA Joined: Jun 28, 2020 Post Count: 18 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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12 cents per KWH here in Florida.
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cnergy
Cruncher Joined: Aug 5, 2020 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline |
In Belgium electricity costs about 0.27 Euro/KWh from the grid. With your own PV it is about 0.17 Euro/KWh. Indeed what you donate to WCG is real money, through your electricity bill or through infrastructure (servers, PV panels, UPS, space...).
That's why I've build my WCG server into my water heater, so all donated power, which is literally converted to heat, is reused for showering. As I have PV panels, using the produced electricity immediatly makes economic sense, so I thought why not combine heating up some water with WCG crunching. After long research I finally succeeded and can now heat up almost all of our family hot water just by crunching. |
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supdood
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 6, 2015 Post Count: 333 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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cnergy--I know a lot of folks use their crunching to do things like heat the basement in the winter, but you're the first I've heard of who integrated with their hot water heater. Could you share more details here or provide a link to a blog post or photos?
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