At 2:06 PM 4/13/5, Keith Nagel wrote: >I was hoping this discussion would prod some other members >to post their costs, I'm curious what others are >paying for electricity. The last time I looked, the >_actual_ cost ( currently 10.1 cents ) was competitive >compared to other providers. I could shop around >again, although all the markup and fixed costs make >it not so promising.
I'm paying 10.88 cents per kWh near Anchorage. However, there is talk in the news here of that cost tripling over the next 10 years as local gas contracts run out and Cook inlet gas declines. Most of our electricity is produced from natural gas. If we don't get a pipeline spur to Ancorage then elecricity will get very expensive here. There is a possibility that up to 10 percent of our electricity will come from a proposed wind farm on Fire island, just off Anchorage in the Cook Inlet, but that may be dependent on the pending choices for gas pipeline routes. Regards, Horace Heffner
