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hero member
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March 14, 2011, 05:41:00 PM
#36
We have many different prices in different regions of Russia. It's cheaper if there is hydroelectric plant nearby or if house has electric oven istalled.
In Moscow, price for buildings without natural gas supply is $0.08 normal, $0.095 peak and $0.02 off-peak (8 hours per day are off-peak), that's ~$0.065 if running something 24/7.

Cost of energy production directly at hydroelectic plant is about $0.0014
newbie
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March 14, 2011, 12:53:52 PM
#35
I just checked my last invoice and my cost is 0.132162 EUR/kWh (about 0.18 USD), plus 18% VAT that would be 0.15595116 EUR/kWh (about 0.22 USD).

I am in southern Spain.
legendary
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March 14, 2011, 11:12:45 AM
#34
You all have cheap electricity!

$.40/kwh here in California.

Ouch that's rough, can almost run a diesel generator for that.
It's California though not going to pretend to be that surprised.
And you could run a natural gas generator for less then that.  In CA, with the subsidies, solar makes a lot of sense.
legendary
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March 14, 2011, 10:26:45 AM
#33
Canada's awesome! $0.10 peak, $0.06 off peak. Cool
sr. member
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March 12, 2011, 08:08:00 AM
#32
You all have cheap electricity!

$.40/kwh here in California.

Ouch that's rough, can almost run a diesel generator for that.
It's California though not going to pretend to be that surprised.
legendary
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March 12, 2011, 12:07:54 AM
#31
You all have cheap electricity!

$.40/kwh here in California.
sr. member
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March 11, 2011, 10:34:47 PM
#30
Tiered how? Buy more gets cheaper or more expensive?
Was kidding with you man; it becomes more expensive per KW, the more electricity used.

Haha yeah guessed so, kind of goes against the "save by buying in bulk" marketing plan but I guess it's more of the "got you buy the balls so pay what we want but we won't overcharge the average consumer so there's a revolt" plan. Makes sense.
sr. member
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March 11, 2011, 10:31:26 PM
#29
StoneTZ: $ .25 USD / Kw - Chile - Guessing my power is from oil or coal. Sad

Hydroelectric actually. They are saying there will be a drought this year too so it's likely to rise even more. Also the tree huggers won't let us build any more dams and though there's talks of constructing nuclear plants, we won't be getting one for many years to come.

My girlfriend told me it's probably hydroelectric. All I know is there's a giant oil refinery a few miles from my house =) came to mind when I was thinking where I get my power. I'm going to research it now. I know there's a group promoting wind and I saw where they tried (failed) geothermal up in Northern Chile.
legendary
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March 11, 2011, 09:55:41 PM
#28
6.38¢ /kWh here is Manitoba, Canada  Cheesy
Wow, cheap electricity and less need for room cooling!
newbie
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March 11, 2011, 09:35:40 PM
#27
6.38¢ /kWh here is Manitoba, Canada  Cheesy
hero member
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March 11, 2011, 09:09:52 PM
#26
New England USA .14kwh
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March 11, 2011, 08:47:02 PM
#25
Tiered how? Buy more gets cheaper or more expensive?
Was kidding with you man; it becomes more expensive per KW, the more electricity used.
sr. member
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March 11, 2011, 06:04:01 PM
#24
StoneTZ: $ .25 USD / Kw - Chile - Guessing my power is from oil or coal. Sad

Hydroelectric actually. They are saying there will be a drought this year too so it's likely to rise even more. Also the tree huggers won't let us build any more dams and though there's talks of constructing nuclear plants, we won't be getting one for many years to come.
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March 11, 2011, 05:42:04 PM
#23
Tiered how? Buy more gets cheaper or more expensive?
Buy 1 get 2 for free.
sr. member
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March 11, 2011, 05:11:18 PM
#22
Thanks for the link, somehow I didn't see it when I searched and then relocated it after this thread was already rolling.
I'm guessing I'm not the only one or one of the first few would have done what you did =)

Thanks though that's a hell of a lot more than I would have been able to compile.
legendary
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March 11, 2011, 04:55:05 PM
#21
I want to compare electricity rates around the world or US and if possible what your energy comes from.
 Some links from:
  http://www.bitcoinminer.com/post/2361900289

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Global_electricity_price_comparison
  http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_3.html
  http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html

  http://www.energy.eu/#Domestic
  http://www.energy.eu/#Industrial

There are other concerns:
  In some situations, the rate varies based on time-of-day peak periods:
  http://www.bitcoinminer.com/post/2858427974

  And for others, there marginal rate is significantly higher than the average rate.
  (i.e., the electricity for a miner is added consumption, so the each additional kWh for mining starts at the highest rate)
  For example:
  http://coloradoindependent.com/78499

  
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Currently customers pay 4.6 cents per kwh for the first 500 kwh and then 9 cents for each additional kWh during the summer.
 
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About 70 percent of households use 800 kilowatt hours or less [per monthly billing cycle].

  For reference, a miner running dual HD 5970s consumes more than 500 kWh per month, so the typical household in the example above will, with this miner, pay the higher rate for each kWh consumed by it.
sr. member
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March 11, 2011, 04:05:13 PM
#20
.03$/KW here in Egypt; it's tiered by the way.

Tiered how? Buy more gets cheaper or more expensive?
sr. member
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March 11, 2011, 04:02:08 PM
#19
Electricity costs here are $.09/kwh in the winter and $.14/kwh in the summer.
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March 11, 2011, 03:42:47 PM
#18
.03$/KW here in Egypt; it's tiered by the way.
legendary
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March 11, 2011, 02:38:19 PM
#17
When the summer comes around it is much worse as nearly 100% (actually I am not sure of this number, can anyone help???) of the cost of electricity also increases the cost of cooling.
If you mean using air conditioning to remove heat that makes it a lot more expensive. A residential AC cooled by outside air wastes about 40% of the input energy, so you need about 1.67 Watts for the AC to remove 1 W of heat from the miner. That means the total electricity cost for mining will be 167% higher.

Wow.  Worse then I thought.  I may need to move to liquid cooling to take heat outside. 

Your liquid cooling system's radiator is still going to dump all of that heat into the house unless you have long pipes leading to a radiator outside of your house.
That is why I said 'take the heat outside.'   Smiley

I would use liquid cooling and put the radiator outside of the air conditioned space. 
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