How much does comed or any other power company charge for a kilowatt/hour in a residentail home?

Question

Also If i have a value that is work/s how do i convert that to kilowatt/hours?

Also why should a power company be called an energy company?

Answer 1

I think I'm paying around 7 cents per KW-Hour.

Answer 2

You have asked the ultimate smoke and mirror question the reason being is that the floating number is a factor of usage..Heres an example on a small understandable scale...ConEdison makes at a constant rate 10000 watts of power. They have at their disposal an instant supply surge of 2000 watts ,in case somebody needs to make coffee. During that time two neighbors decide to get together and play cards , they make coffee,,2000watts (all is good at Con Ed). However across the street the nosy neighbor wants to join in they call and are told if they bring cookies its ok...She fires up the Oven and draws 2000 watts more..ConEd is about to go brown. So ConEd big boss in NYC says bring online turbine 23, 24, 25...add 6000 watts..About the time the big boss gets the turbines in gear the party breaks up the coffee pot is turned off and the cookies were burned anyway.. Now guess who pays for the 6000 watts of power created and not used ...WELL WE DO!!! Now the government said you can't charge for that so they stopped about 10 years ago . Now they have got to pay for it somehow, sooooo they change the name from a power surchage to a POWER FACTOR CORRECTING ADJUSTMENT...look on your bill its like .0765 x total...Now add that to the cost of a kW @ 9cents and you have your bill..Next month the pfca will change and so will your bill. ...I sometimes get the feeling that Public utility companies make all the same mistakes as often as possible because they just cant help making so much money at the customers expense...

The second part of your question is almost an oxymoron . I ,like yourself, find a bit of irony in calling them a POWER company unless we add the suffix power-FUL to it..Well iv'e used another 9 cents worth writing this and my pfca duty has been done.....Thanks for asking from the E

Answer 3

Your question surely get a lot of answers as to the costing of energy which depends on the source of energy conversion. example: Hydro, Oil, Nuclear, Solar, etc.

Work = Power X Time in units of kilowatt-hours
1 watt= 1 Joule/sec
1 hour = 3600 sec

There are a lot of misnomers in physics.
Example electromotive force which is not a force but is referred to commonly as voltage.