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Louisiana Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay utility company for lost profits (lailluminator.com)
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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Too many utilities are incorrectly billing fixed distribution costs on their per-kilowatt hour rate. Where I live, distribution is just over half the cost of electricity, but it is still mostly billed per kilowatt hour, when really those costs are nearly completely fixed.