Price per KW to charge at home🏠

[Lightningwaiter]

There are websites to show national (US) electricity costs, which vary widely. If Bob pays 40 cents, and Mary pays 20 cents, that tells you what?

Bob pays too much? Or has a poorly run utility company.

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[DM_3]

I was wondering about people’s price to charge your lightning at home?

What is your lowest rate per kilowatt?

I pay 14¢ in British Columbia.

Central CA on a solar plan during winter $0.36 off peak when I’m below my baseline allowance and $0.46 when above my base line allowance. Either way, still saving versus pumping gas.

 

[TaxmanHog]

National Grid Mass. just installed smart meters on our house & garage two day ago, I really hope this technology evolves the state regulations allowing the utilities more latitude in offering TOU rates, if they do, I'd follow the recommended usage time frames.

 

[davehu]

I was wondering about people’s price to charge your lightning at home?

What is your lowest rate per kilowatt?

I pay 14¢ in British Columbia.

pay .12/kwr but here is Electricity Rates by State

 

[chl]

I was wondering about people’s price to charge your lightning at home?

What is your lowest rate per kilowatt?

I pay 14¢ in British Columbia.

Technically it is per kilowatt hour (energy= power x time) but...
I always charge overnight, Norther Virginia USA:

Summer from 1am to 5am .015 cents per kWh [bill 3 cents for 202 kWh at super-off-peak rate]
Winter from 1am to 5am 1.52 cents per kWh [bill $6.73 for 443 kWh at super-off-peak winter rate]

But that does not include things added to the bill like fuel costs, distribution costs etc. The fuel costs cost more than the energy charges!

Those add between about 12 to 14 cents per kWh to the cost depending on fuel costs, etc.

Also, the on-board charger wastes about 9% or so in inefficiencies (heat etc.) so not all the energy I pay for reached the battery.

I get anywhere from a low of 1.52mi/kWh in a cold winter weather month (Feb 2025) to a high of 3.2mi/kWh in a mild fall month (Sept 2025) according to my records averaging over a month's time but not including the energy wasted by the charger, only the energy that gets to the battery.

I guess my energy cost per mile driven is under 5 cents per mile, including the cost of the wasted energy charging.

NOTE: had to edit the cost per kWh based on most recent bills - the rate changed a bit from what I remembered. Also I am on a special plan the "EV + Home" pricing plan started back in 2014 or so.

 

[NW Ontario Ford Lightning]

The people saying they pay $0.00 because they have solar systems should put a little bit of context into that claim. Solar systems aren't free. Usually the upfront cost is enormous.

Very True !!!
We built our solar in stages over a few years, buying when good deals were available, installation of the entire system by your's truely.
in US$ about $24k materials (PV, Inverters, Wire Disconnects, racking to support the PV and very large ESS battery built from cells).

The system just runs, and the grid is my back up - primarily for "winter" Nov-Dec-Jan. By February we get good solar again and PV panels work better in cold than heat.

Coming up on 60MW total produced, so you could say my solar energy is 40cents per kWh except it is not finished collecting energy, and every new kWh we collect is reducing the average cost per kWh with time.
If we assume 10 more years, then the cost will drop to about 10-cents per kWh on average. During those ten years utility costs are likely to contiinue to rise, but the cost of the system is a set value.

But WAIT - if utility cost is less than 10cents/kWh WHY do solar at all???
1. outages
2. winter
3. Well pump, freezers, heating system requires reliable electricity.
4. My business is also at my home (two birds one stone)
5. The business built the solar-Inverter-battery with 'before tax' dollars.
6. Utility costs are ToU - the low cost is only overnight, with far higher rates during the day - the Battery-Inverter system allows us to store the cheap rate power at night to use all day INSTEAD OF on-peak power rates.

7. independence - and I learned a lot.

In the end, although I call the solar "Free" . yeah, the truth is it cost money and will not last forever. Hope it lasts as long as I do though

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