{"id":11180,"date":"2014-11-01T22:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T02:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2014-11-01T22:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T02:37:05","slug":"power-at-what-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/01\/power-at-what-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Power, at what price?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the Canadian Electricity Association’s Electricity in Ontario<\/a> week. Can’t you feel it in the air?\u00c2\u00a0 A brochure, snappily titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ELECTRICITY ARE WE GETTING VALUE FOR THE MONEY WE PAY?<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [pdf] was in my dead tree media stack<\/a> this morning. I think it’s trying to say our power is too cheap, as in this graph yoinked from the text:<\/p>\n

\"powerforthefuture_graph\"<\/a>But as ever, hand-picked statistics only tell half the story. Digging into the IEA<\/a> Key World Energy Statistics handbooks for 2011 and 2012, the data look something more like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n

Country<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

2010 Domestic Electricity Price \/ USD\/kWh<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

2010 Annual Electricity Consumption per capita \/ kWh<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Annual Cost per capita<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Denmark<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$0.356<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

6,329<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$2,255<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Japan<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$0.232<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

8,399<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$1,950<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$0.199<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

5,741<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$1,142<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

France<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$0.157<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

7,756<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$1,216<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

United States<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$0.116<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

13,361<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$1,547<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$0.095<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

15,145<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$1,431<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$0.089<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

2,085<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$185<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

So really, because Canadians use such an obscene amount of energy per capita (srsly; we should be ashamed of ourselves<\/em>), the graph should look more like this:<\/p>\n

\"realchart\"<\/a>So we’re not actually that inexpensive; solidly mid-range. Since our electricity price per kWh is so low, if we spent a little money on energy conservation, we could have really<\/em> cheap power for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the Canadian Electricity Association’s Electricity in Ontario week. Can’t you feel it in the air?\u00c2\u00a0 A brochure, snappily titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ELECTRICITY ARE WE GETTING VALUE FOR THE MONEY WE PAY?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [pdf] was in my dead tree media stack this morning. I think it’s trying to say our power is too cheap, as in this graph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1200,1566,2708],"class_list":["post-11180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-canada","tag-electricity","tag-price"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2Uk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11193,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions\/11193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}