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very jealous of how cheap AUS solar prices are. < $1 AUD per watt after rebate


Don't be jealous of our peak power price though: $0.56/kWh

(I have a battery though, so I rarely pay full tote - which is one of the reasons I got a battery)


Not jealous but that’s no worse than much of California (assuming those were USD you quoted, not AUD).


That's AUD, so maybe California's a (fair) bit worse then. I always thought the US had pretty darn cheap power.

Looks like California's maximum peak rate is US$0.74/kWh (without including the baseline credit), which is equivalent to AUD$1.04/kWh

Yeahnah, I don't know what I'm complaining about then.

Get solar panels, get batteries!


I'd have assumed it was AUD, and even then it's high. I pay 0.28/kWh AUD in Sydney. That'd be 0.2/kWh USD.


wow, that's really high. average price for the us is maybe $0.25 kwh adjusted for AUD


We pay like 30 cents in USD per kw.


Average price is $0.19 in the US.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610


Which is pretty much what Australian average price is. Average Australian domestic tariff is around AUD 0.30/kwh which is USD 0.21/kwh.

None of this touches on standing charges, I don't know how that works in the USA, in Australia for an average household it runs at AUD 1.00/day to AUD 1.50/day (USD 0.70/day to USD 1.00/day). For an average household the standing charge is going to add 15 to 20% to the tariff.


I'm assuming that standing charges are like meter fees here. I've paid as low as $0.25/day and as high as $1.25/day depending on where I lived. There's not much uniformity.


You're confusing the price of electricity with the price of solar panels and/or installation, which is what parent comment intended.


Depends on where you are in the US. I pay 11 cents during peak and 7 cents during off hours.




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