a poor Connecticut: Ontario Electricity Pricing
I found myself in front of some U.S. Energy Information Administration data today, and, as anybody would, thought that with a little summarizing and some formatting it might make for a pretty enthralling scatter plot. How right I was! I looked up the data after seeing some comments on a recent article by Parker Gallant ( And the winner is : Hydro One! Most expensive residential power rates in North America ). I know I paid about 20 cents/kWh in 2015 (up to ~23 in 2016), so I wanted to check U.S. EIA data to see how that compared - and when I want to check data, I want to check base data. This I found in the form EIA-826 data for Sales and revenue . The data is by utility and state, and it includes revenues, sales and the count for consumer groups - including residential. Forgetting Ontario temporarily, I summarized data by state and created the posted scatter plot to test for a connection between consumption, and pricing. It seems to exist and that seems pertinent beyond a rant - as we...