• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    What, you don’t have that? My electric bill has a rate, a rate for the network, a subscription fee, electricity green taxes, and sales tax. I’m European.

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      The entire breakdown of my electricity bill in the UK is a rate for energy use, a standing charge that is independent of usage, and VAT. Strictly speaking I’ve got two different usage rates because my heating is on a separate meter, but that’s an unusual situation

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      6 days ago

      Here it boils down to:

      • Network power (fixed fee based on your max power needs, depends on time as well, can be 3.6€ / kw in winter months)
      • Network energy transfer (fee for energy transfered, here its about 0.018€/kwh)
      • Energy (fee on the energy used, about 0.146€/kwh right now)
      • VAT
      • some bullshit for maintenance and running an open market portal for companies to buy/sell energy (like 1-3€)
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      Nothing beats Portugal:

      • Kwh rate
      • Social electricity finance tax
      • General economic costs fee
      • Infrastructure utilization fee
      • Energy and geology exploration tax
      • Electricity consumption Special tax
      • Audiovisual contribution
      • Sales tax
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          It’s to finance the Portuguese version of BBC. Called RTP. The funny part is that it’s also used for the sales tax calculation, so there is a tax fee

    • albert180@piefed.social
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      Usually taxes and transmission fees are rolled into the kWh Price you are shown when enrolling into the contract