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by JumpCrisscross 866 days ago
> want to know where OP lives, having an all electric heating setup anywhere in the world where it gets cold enough is incredibly inefficient

I'm in Wyoming. My heat is direct electric. The house doesn't have ducting and Wyoming power is cheap.

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A bit of a tangent, but do you mind saying what you pay per kWh?

I'm currently on £0.36 GBP per kWh (about $0.45).

Just wondering what counts as cheap!

https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/average-electricity-re... us average: $0.18 Wyoming: < $0.09

yeah, cheap. But cold so a heat pump would still totally pay for itself.

Fwiw the estimate for IL seems high to me. I spend about 7c delivered in Chicago.

Tons of nuclear supply keeps costs down around the Great Lakes. Perhaps downstate is raising the average.

Idk about tons, maybe if/when palisades gets fully operating again.
In British Columbia:

9.75 cents per kWh for first 1,350 in an average two month billing period (22.1918 kWh per day).

14.08 cents per kWh over the 1,350 Step 1 threshold.

> do you mind saying what you pay per kWh?

5.604¢ for my last bill. (About 6¢ after taxes.)