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- From: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: cost of nuclear energy
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 00:57:37 GMT
- Organization: lbl
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- References: <JMC.92Dec28145808@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Reply-To: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
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- In article <JMC.92Dec28145808@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John
- McCarthy) writes:
- |>
- |> PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -- Philadelphia Electric Co. said Monday its
- |> customers will see their electric bills a little lighter in the new
- |> year.
- |> The utility is coming to the end of a rate increase imposed to
- |> recover the costs of the Limerick 2 nuclear plant and will cut rates 4.6
- |> percent on New Year's day.
- |> That should mean the customer using 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity
- |> will see his bill drop to $70.42 from $73.87.
- |> <<rest deleted>>
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- Just to add a bit of arithmetic:
- $73.87/500 = 14.8 cents/kWh 70.42/500 = 14.1 cents/kWh
-
- Bruce Nordman
- B_Nordman@lbl.gov
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