How much is your light bill..?
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After bitching bad about light bills my first couple months, my last two month's bills have dropped almost if not $100 bucks...And we are using no less or no more energy than we been using...I truly do believe they just charge what the fuck they want too...
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QUOTE(œbermensch @ May 21 2007, 01:12 AM) After bitching bad about light bills my first couple months, my last two month's bills have dropped almost if not $100 bucks...And we are using no less or no more energy than we been using...I truly do believe they just charge what the fuck they want too...
You do know the market price is set by the weighted average of all market participants, right? It is not set by your usage, but demand on the grid. Power from Texas flowing to Florida can run havok on your local bill, cause everything has to be rerouted while Florida Power and Light is doing line recovery, and buying power from Texas to serve its own clients. Basically for each market RTO, everyone bids in their megawatts (based on fuel price, economic positions, and availablilty) and then the total of everyonese prices is averaged by the number of participants. The people who fall in below the weighted average threshold are the suppliers for that grid hour. All excess supply comes in above Market Rate.
what drives the cost of power is the grid demand forecast of how much power is needed and the price of fuel, freight, supplies, personnel, and transmission.
In Mississippi, what changes is the south central LAGN area providers, and the lines coming from Florida. When they find ways to get cheaper fuel (also market driven) or improve their own financial portfolio, they can provide cheaper power. The co-ops that run Mississippi are unregulated, and their data is only collected once a year, which basically meas there is not constant regulation of your power rates, it is just reflected in a yearly progression.
There is no easy way to descibe the thousands of factors used to decide how much power runs for, in a specific control delivery area. but we are so closely watched there is not a damn way a person could just ramp your light bill "cause they feel like it".
You do know the market price is set by the weighted average of all market participants, right? It is not set by your usage, but demand on the grid. Power from Texas flowing to Florida can run havok on your local bill, cause everything has to be rerouted while Florida Power and Light is doing line recovery, and buying power from Texas to serve its own clients. Basically for each market RTO, everyone bids in their megawatts (based on fuel price, economic positions, and availablilty) and then the total of everyonese prices is averaged by the number of participants. The people who fall in below the weighted average threshold are the suppliers for that grid hour. All excess supply comes in above Market Rate.
what drives the cost of power is the grid demand forecast of how much power is needed and the price of fuel, freight, supplies, personnel, and transmission.
In Mississippi, what changes is the south central LAGN area providers, and the lines coming from Florida. When they find ways to get cheaper fuel (also market driven) or improve their own financial portfolio, they can provide cheaper power. The co-ops that run Mississippi are unregulated, and their data is only collected once a year, which basically meas there is not constant regulation of your power rates, it is just reflected in a yearly progression.
There is no easy way to descibe the thousands of factors used to decide how much power runs for, in a specific control delivery area. but we are so closely watched there is not a damn way a person could just ramp your light bill "cause they feel like it".
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