I’m not claiming here that it’s currently cheaper, but that it will soon be cheaper in a lot of places. Only 47% of my bill is the actual power generation, and the non-generation charges total $0.18/kWh. That’s still slightly more expensive than solar+batteries here, but with current cost trends that should flip in a year or two.
Looking at their breakdown (footnote [1]) it seems to be mostly the cost of getting the electricity to the consumer. Since they’re a monopoly, there’s not much getting them to be efficient here, operating a high-uptime anything is expensive, and MA is an expensive place to do anything.
I’m not claiming here that it’s currently cheaper, but that it will soon be cheaper in a lot of places. Only 47% of my bill is the actual power generation, and the non-generation charges total $0.18/kWh. That’s still slightly more expensive than solar+batteries here, but with current cost trends that should flip in a year or two.
Looking at their breakdown (footnote [1]) it seems to be mostly the cost of getting the electricity to the consumer. Since they’re a monopoly, there’s not much getting them to be efficient here, operating a high-uptime anything is expensive, and MA is an expensive place to do anything.