Yeah, 5 plus years ago power here was 13 cents kWh, three and a half years ago since I became an energy consultant, it has steadily fallen from 9-10 cents per kWh and now, in the first week of January the main provider set its prices just above 7 cent kWh... and my company is now UNDER 7 cents, .0695 per kWh!
This won't make some too happy but undoubtedly MA has taxed the heck out of both you the customer and the power company itself to supply funds for some "green" project which then gets flushed down the bureaucracy toilet. So there is a price to pay for things being "green" and if you're a believer in the Man-made Global Warming Hoax, then you deserve to pay these higher prices.
Meanwhile in places like PA, that routinely get made fun of as being "hickish" and "redneck" and "not sophisticated", we are the ones reaping the benefits from the Marcellus Shale Gas Revolution and we also have some of the most abundant and productive coal mines in the world, and we use it to make clean and cheap power for our residents. Then our won't-name-the-parties-who-control-these-Cities jack taxes up on utilities, which cancels out the benefits of deregulation and competition and then they blame that system and not the criminal taxing bodies known as government (but that's part of the plan), all to dupe the left-leaning residents in those areas to back more price-hiking regs as the cure-all to fix the system They are breaking... it's a cycle and they count on the sheeple to fall for it, and they do.
Meanwhile, in The Sticks... A new natural gas plant just came online last year, and a we also have a Clean Coal Powerplant 12 miles from my house (and an "evil" Nuclear Plant 25 miles away) and that company about 10 years ago invested 600-700 billion dollars to put up the coal scrubber stacks and all the associated technologies to make it a certified Clean Coal Power Plant and it has been running 97% cleaner than it used to. You could see the yellowy sulfurous smoke floating across the valley for decades as a kid but now, after that tech was installed, the "smoke" is powdery white and barely gets away from the plant before disappearing. So it has cleaned up my personal air and environment tremendously and yet still usues Americas Most Abundant Fossil Fuel to make cheap power.
And talk about recycling, they then have a conveyor belt set up which takes ALL the ash from the burned coal, ships it across the street and then the factory which is filled with workers who make great livings to provide for their familes, they make the flyash into dry wall for building houses that we can purchase from any of our local hardware or builder-supply stores!!!! Wow!
And America is now the number one Natural Gas Producer in the world (along with oil too) and it's because of these "evil" resources that I'm paying under 7 cents per kWh for power and I expect the price to fall even more as Natural Gas continues to flood the market from wells 30 miles north of my house!
So in PA where a certain party does not have a strangle hold on government, "deregulation" has worked flawlessly (and it was passed by our Republican State House and Senate and was signed into law by Ed Rendell, a Democrat) and right now, if I log on to
www.papowerswitch.com I can choose between 146 power providers, 131 are fixed rates, 13 variable rates, 2 are "unlimited," and there are 40 renewable source providers but of course those are all wildly more expensive than the .0695 per kWh I pay.
So for PA, that gets ridiculed as not being "sophisticated enough" as compared to the "wise and all knowing" and "willing-to-pay-more-to-save-the-planet-but-then-bitch-about-high-prices-but-then-blames-competition-and-deregulation-but-not-bloated-inefficient-government" left-leaning states, I'd say we've figured out the basic principles of supply and demand and deregulation way better than some others... but then again, we all don't call MA, "Taxachusetts" for nothing.
I can't wait to charge my Model 3 using my .0695 cent per kWh power and look forward to even cheaper charging as these "evil" fossil fuels lower the burden on my family.
"Man-made Global Warming - The Vanity of Humanity."