Land of the fee and the home of the slave.
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robotica@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this some USA joke I’m too European to understand?
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
mattd@programming.dev 1 month ago
Yeah probably. I’m in the US. Here’s how my bill is broken down:
Generation Service Charge
Customer Charge
Distribution Charge
Transition Charge
Transmission Charge
Net Meter Recovery Surcharge
Revenue Decoupling Charge
Distributed Solar Charge
Renewable Energy Charge
Energy Efficiency Charge
Electric Vehicle ProgramTwo of them (transition and revenue decoupling charges) are actually a credit of about $1 each
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
- Consumption charge: 183€
- Base fee: 182€
- Electricity tax: 15€
- Revenue tax: 72€
calavera@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Wtf that’s expensive
Strider@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah we’re working on avoiding any kind of “Energiewende”
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re allowed to buy electricity from a separate broker than your “power company” so they split the bill between power usage and service fees plus there’s state and local taxes.
db2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Being allowed to on paper and actually being able to are wildly different things. They’re monopolies in most areas that get away with it by stringently denying that fact. Same with cable companies.
LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
You’re allowed to buy electricity from a separate broker than your “power company”
I’m curious about this, would you be willing to elaborate?
Where I live we don’t have a choice of electricity providers for my home. Are you talking about states that have deregulated energy markets?
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, they’re called retail electric suppliers. Some have offers to lock in a fixed Price for a year and others have variable rates. Then you can choose to have power billed separately from delivery or not.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your country had better have a state owned grid, with a state run retailer, else this is still the same sort of shit, just without hidden fees.
Sincerely, an annoyed Victorian/Australian that wishes their electricity was just managed by the state.
There may be no hidden fees where I’m from, but when there’s a private company with a monopoly, what’s the difference?
Capitalism/privatisation is such a scam
:(
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 month ago
My bill in Illinois isn’t like this. There’s a couple fees to stay hooked into the grid and then a flat rate per unit energy
Variable rate would be nicer but I’m too busy to set it up
then_three_more@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In the UK it’s all rolled up into the “service charge”. Including the “loads of other companies couldn’t manage themselves properly and went bust and we had to take on their customers fee”
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Same in Germany, it’s called “base fee”
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What, you don’t have that? My electric bill has a rate, a rate for the network, a subscription fee, electricity green taxes, and sales tax. I’m European.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Australia checking in. We have the price per Kw, and the number of Kw consumed.
AsslessChaps@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Also Australian. I get a $0.87 per day supply charge plus kWh used.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Stage one Stage two Service fees Other (E)
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Here it boils down to:
calavera@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Nothing beats Portugal:
Kwh rate Social electricity finance tax General economic costs fee Infrastructure utilization fee Energy and geology exploration tax Electricity consumption Special tax Audiovisual contribution Sales tax
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Audiovisual contribution? I love it 10/10 no notes
calavera@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s to finance the Portuguese version of BBC. Called RTP. The funny part is that it’s also used for the sales tax calculation, so the meme from OP actually exists
albert180@piefed.social 1 month ago
Usually taxes and transmission fees are rolled into the kWh Price you are shown when enrolling into the contract