Unfortunately that information is totally incorrect. .05 US kWh for residential is virtually unheard of.rison from a home user to a professional environment.
Chelan, Grant, and Douglas counties in Washington State are ALL well under 5c/KWH for residential - 2 of the 3 are more like *3* cents/kwh, Grant is 4.1
As I recall Douglas is a HAIR lower than Chelan right now for residential, but they are very very close and seem to trade off on that every so often.
I do concede that there aren't a lot of places with 5c/kwh or less in the US, but "virtually unheard of" is stating that rather on the excessively STRONG side.
With all factors involved, I was paying about 7.5 the last couple months I lived in Iowa - and MOST of that was bloody "extra fees" not the actual base rate from Alliant.
Your .10 for your LOW end on residential is actually a bit on the high side - the AVERAGE for the US last time I checked was 12.something
The 3 counties mentioned above, the base rate + meter fee is usually the ENTIRE rate (they did have a "drought" surcharge a couple years back, but that was fractional penny and STILL left them with the lowest rates in the country) for residential service.
If you're factoring in "service size", you are no longer dealing with residential rates - and as a GENERAL rule, large business and industrial rates are LOWER than residential, abet often with more up-front cost if you end up in a facility that doesn't already HAVE the work done or build a facility from scratch.
For example, Grant is ballpark 2.4c/KWH all up rate for a 24/7 type mining setup that draws in the 200-500KW range and a hair LESS for larger (which to my knowlage are THE lowest rates anywhere in the USA by a very thin hair over Douglas and Chelan).
Finding hosting in the under 8c/KWH range ALL UP isn't hard, in fact your facility is the ONLY one I've ever seen advertising on Bitcointalk that was HIGHER than 8c/KWH.
Showing averages by state is bloody near worthless - even WITHIN a state, and often from one county to the next, the rate can vary a LOT. Sometimes WITHIN a county it can vary a lot depending on how the breakdown of what areas are served by what utility company works out. Yes, that chart you posted IS in fact a straw man argument.
Even breaking down by avaerage for a utility company doesn't mean a lot, as many such companies cross state lines (Alliant, for example, serves NON-CONTIGUOUS pieces of Iowa. Illinois, and Minnesota as I recall).
