Why Your Electric Bill Is So High — and Could Keep Climbing | WSJ

U.S. electric bills have soared, and are likely to move higher as households break out their air conditioners. WSJ’s Katherine Blunt explains why electricity and natural gas prices are up so much this year and offers tips on how to manage the expense. Illustration: Mike Cheslik

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[jameswood]

Inflation is killing my budget and my salary. I can't invest and it seems like I will need to sell a part of my portfolio to keep my head above the water this year

[gba]

The reason for high cost is greed. you got to love it when they call it everything but what it is

[TheNickboogie]

Why don’t you address corporate greed raising the price? CEO keep giving themselves raises for the wonderful job they’re doing raising rates on consumers.

[redoxhilk]

i admire the effort of these journalists to demystify the costs of power. They did hard work to identify cost of building power plant, cost of power plang fuel, cost of power posts and lines and cost of labour and servicing.

they did that, right?

[ASkippingRock]

My wife and I have been debating having solar installed. Helpful knowing that prices are expected to continue rising.

[aerodude]

I'm am in Ohio (south of Dayton) our electric supply via AES Ohio went from $0.041/kwh to $0.102/kwh due to the current U.S energy policy changes, THANK YOU BRANDON!

[TomNook.]

It's funny, in winter we use more electricity obviously because it gets darker quicker, we're inside more and for heating.

In the US you use more in the summer because of AC

[lindsayhengehold]

I’ve had trouble with paying my electric bills myself in the past but never had my power shut off blessedly ( only had my gas turned off).

[bngr_bngr]

We need to create more nuclear power plants to generate electricity. How do people think we are going to Mars with out nuclear energy.

[Connor_Roush]

If this keeps up, why would you buy EVs?

[ddeboy]

All the southern states could have enough solar in dead land areas to heat the north in the winter and the North could produce enough to cool the south in the summer. It just needs to be built and planned.

[TechGamer-pqgu]

As someone who lives in a country with the highest power rates in Asia this is just an alarming news.

[AceMonkeyIlium]

I remember my mom putting up a poster to not use the washing machine at a certain time to save electricity

[richctv]

Time for Germany to rethink shutting down their very effective nuclear power plants. France for the time being is the wiser and sticking with nuclear power; often producing surplus energy. Meanwhile the rest of Europe are dependents on Putin's power whims. So now we'll be paying higher electricity costs to subsidize some real bad planning in Europe. This was/is a huge unforced error.

[Dbabacbone]

Americans first this isn’t the war in UKRAIN it’s the administration that has made the choice to send our resources abroad leaving Americans paying the price. Can’t wait to vote in 2024.

[Jalex]

PAINT YOUR ROOF WHITE! Leaving an Asphalt roof black is really dumb. Even on old roofs, Using a rubberized white paint reduces heat absorbed from sunlight and some paint companies will warranty not just the paint but the roof to (the paint waterproofs old roofs)

[crash_test_dummy_]

In other words, the pissing contests between politicians are why we have to pay more... Got it!

[aarononeal]

The Wall Street journal needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress

[ShibaSoftware]

Would love to see a follow up video on current renewable energy alternatives to the grid. ☀️ 💨 🔋

[danieljordan]

Thanks for the link, it's come to my realisation that some batteries that were dieing suddenly received charge from what I can only explain as a microwave and ultrasound cross feed from some other devices. So it then came to mind that wave density in places has started to sap the electric from our homes like it's bouncing round the plug and wavering the electric goodbye. When these batteries recieved energy from the wave transit at that moment it was surprising. Yet must be part of the reason some kind of usage is having to be paid for and I believe it's a seepage due to a wave density issue. If the powers that be have unexplained seepage or usage they compensate by raising the cost it might become clearer. Thanks again,