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My electric bill now if paltry, probably $100 a month, which is a third of what it was in Ohio, but in large part because of the surface area thing and that hot water is included in the HOA.  The hot water even feeds our heat pumps, as I understand it, so the heat pump does little more than run the fan.  We have a lot of window surface area, but only on two sides.

Georgia Power is building two more nukes and I expect that will/has bump my rates at some point.  I think I'm paying about 5 cents per now.

The nukes nearly got shut down half built, but they muddled through apparently.  I'm not sure who ran the economics on them.  I keep hearing that wind and solar are way cheaper, as is NG.  

Our HOA is fairly steep, almost $900, but when I look at what I was paying to own the house, cable and internet, utilities, painting, etc., it is about break even, maybe better.  And we have a pool and gym and 24/7 front desk and underground parking etc.  At one condo nearby, the residents have to pay $160 per parking space in addition to their HOA, per month.  Ouch.

Now, our water bill is $50/month and we never even use the sprinkler system. That's where they get you in SoCal.

My water is $18.53, but it arrives in a combined bill that includes things I don't even know what all of them are, such as sewerage, garbage removal, recycling, compost site, and landfill charge. Altogether this month is $69.14.

I think we discussed this in the environment thread, but Georgia is building the last nuclear plant in the country, despite significant cost overruns, while other recent nuclear projects (most infamously in South Carolina) have been abandoned. That's the unfortunate consequence of being in a regulated utility, though.

Iowa and most of the Midwest is at least part of the MISO wholesale market (Ohio, metro Chicago, and some areas in between are part of PJM, which is similar), either of which help keep generation costs lower than they would be otherwise. Of course, the amount of wind generation helps, too.

California has it's own market, but generation costs are higher due high demand and the cost of importing natural gas for generation (as mentioned above, there isn't much need for heating in CA, though). As renewables continue to dominate, electricity prices will decline, though..... Furthermore, California's wholesale market could expand into other western states. It kind of already has in a way, but I don't fully understand it, so I won't try to explain it here.

this site probably 100+ miles from anywhere?

Vogtle, it's near Augusta, GA (30 miles south of).

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Alvin+W.+Vogtle+Electric+Generating+Plant/@33.1430634,-82.7057858,8.88z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x88f9965753cde4fd:0x1f30e36ea47c9832!8m2!3d33.1306224!4d-81.7713527?hl=en

Augusta is sort of somewhere.  They have a golf tournament each year.  And a Medical School.

They already have two power reactors and are building two more, projected completion in 2021 and 2022.  It will then be the largest nuclear power station in the country.

https://www.southerncompany.com/innovation/nuclear-energy/plant-vogtle-3-and-4.html

[th]Units operational[/th] 1 × 1150 MW 1 × 1152 MW [th]Make and model[/th] 2 × WH 4-loop (DRYAMB) [th][/th] [th]Units under const.[/th] 2 × 1117 MW AP1000 [th]Nameplate capacity[/th] 2302 MW [th]Capacity factor[/th] 95.09% (2017) 91.25% (lifetime) [th]Annual net output[/th] 19,176 GWh (2017)

Purdue just scheduled a game against FAU for 2022...

Who has higher odds of not being with their current team at that time, Brohm or Kiffin?