Expensive? Electricity is dirtcheap is the US. Try Germany, i pay 0.32 € per KW/h.

Do you guys have variable rate plans? In Texas I pay spot rate updating every 5 minutes. There is a 3c/kwh fee regardless of price. Most of the time it's 2-3c/kwh however it occasionally goes to $1-9/kwh. At night it's usually .01c to sometimes well into the negatives where I get paid to use electricity. As you can imagine I charge my electric car at night and in average it only costs me about $2-3 per 1000 miles of range.

That's what you get for shutting down nuclear plants that were already built and functioning just fine.

Oh, that is expensive. Here in northern sweden I pay $0.08 per kWh. However you guys plastered all your houses with solar panels a few years ago so I guess that helps a lot to keep the cost down by not needing to buy so much.

California is pretty expensive. PG&E is .24/.31/.38 per kwh - (punitively?) tiered depending on monthly usage.

I think the tiers are ~ 0-300kwh / 300-1200kwh / 1200kwh+ per month

It is expensive comparably. In Seattle, the winter starting price is 0.096$ per KWH, after exceeding a certain limit it goes to to 0.10$ per KWH.

$0.1038/kWh where I live in the states.

Germany's high costs are a result of their shift to "renewable power" sources.

Renewable Russian gas, more precisely :)

In Southern California, I paid about $0.32 per KwH.

0.05$ per kW*h in Russia.

You should try NYC.

Last month, ConEd charged me 12.65¢ per kWh just for delivery (before taxes, surcharges, etc). Then my actual electricity supplier charged me a further 16.90¢ per kWh. Call it 30¢ / kWh.

What's your local rate?