Unsure on this section but maybe we put something here.... Last winter, the typical electric bill climbed about 20% and almost none of it was the weather. This issue looks back at what moved, then forward at the wave of new rates resetting before the cold.
Across 13,672 households — the same home measured in both winters — the median bill rose about 20%. The tell is what drove it: usage barely moved, but the supply rate jumped. About three-quarters of the increase was the rate, not the weather.
The rates landing this winter, and who we predict will move most and least
You're not paying a data center's electricity bill. You pay more for grid capacity, because their demand bid up the cost of keeping the whole system reliable, and that cost gets spread across everyone in the same pool. Proximity is what often makes headlines, but being on the same grid is a big part of the story.