Cost of electricity | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-29

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing


00:01:24 1 Rate structure
00:07:17 2 Price Comparison by Power Source
00:08:39 3 Price Comparison Across Countries
00:09:46 3.1 Global comparison
00:10:36 3.2 Eurostat
00:11:04 4 Electricity price forecasting
00:11:23 4.1 Forecasting methodology
00:12:57 4.2 Driving factors
00:14:18 4.2.1 Weather
00:15:13 4.2.2 Hydropower availability
00:15:56 4.2.3 Power plant and transmission outages
00:16:18 4.2.4 Economic health
00:17:34 4.3 Power quality
00:18:58 4.4 Phase balancing
00:20:02 5 See also



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SUMMARY
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Electricity pricing (sometimes referred to as electricity tariff or the price of electricity) varies widely from country to country and may vary significantly from locality to locality within a particular country. 
Many factors go into determining an electricity tariff, such as the price of power generation, government subsidies, local weather patterns, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and multi-tiered industry regulation. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says that “Electricity prices generally reflect the cost to build, finance, maintain, and operate power plants and the electricity grid.”Some utilities are for-profit companies, and their prices will also include a financial return for shareholders and owners. These utilities can exercise their political power within existing legal and regulatory regimes to guarantee that return and reduce competition from other sources like distributed generation.Electricity tariffs vary by type of customer, typically by residential, commercial, and industrial connections.  
Electricity price forecasting is the method by which a generator, utility company, or large industrial consumer can predict the wholesale prices of electricity with reasonable accuracy.  Due to the complications of electricity generation, the cost to supply electricity varies minute by minute.