I am getting a pretty good year round price of 9c/kwh and I have it locked in for 2 years. Not too far away is an electrical coop where rates are like 6-7c/kwh. I think the cheapest rates are utilities with hydroelectric power, and probably where a lot of datacenters are located. Texas has it's own power grid so this contributes to lower rates as there's little interference and regulation from Washington dc.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2003/08/why_texas_has_its_own_power_grid.htmlagain previous msg ..with the savings of combined $45 in my gas budget year round heating price per month due to miners and this winter electric home heating as primary change
I posted previously plan (which again is true 2500w 24/7 in a well insulated 3 bedroom house keeps the upstairs at 64F and downstairs at 61F and basement at 68F) also good
sleeping temps and I'm rarely home for heat to be more then that....anyway with the all year budget gas savings and the 115 bucks about a month on electric savings ..that is a total of
$1115 bucks per year in savings. Some of that also to be noted is savings above and beyond the 'titan asic miners' in this decrease in price from 13.7c kwh to 9.27c kwh applies to ALL my electric use too boot....
So yeah...with the BTC halving coming up in August 2016 a person using the above 'just may' be able to mine at least bought 'used' equipment as a home miner in winter of 2016-2017 yet it seems...or as you state places like USA states with hydroelectric and Texas etc.....
anyway hopefully it is not just me and with a phone call (esp Midwest Xcel customers...again call after hours and a regular xcel tech ...you don't want this passed around during the day to be mulled over..the regular customer rep after hours has the power to 'tag' such as was my case..just saying)
worth a call ..again esp Xcel electric customers...worse that can happen is 1) they laugh and go no....same rates.....2) they inspect your server equip ..laugh say nice try same old rates
hopefully it is 3) it is tag'd by rep ....and someone looks at your electric use in winter ..goes yep looks like winter electric heat is primary..and rubber stamps it ..like in my case
again below is the thread on how this was done on bitcointalk for those too lazy to scroll back
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1296558.msg13304401#msg13304401again good luck...the down side on this is on APRIL 2016 when the rate reverts I am gonna 'cry me a river' it is gonna hurt to go from 9.27c kwh to 13.7c kwh in one swoop for an extra 115 bucks a month to xcel..my only 'hope' is that BTC and LTC prices have gone up significant for it to take some of the pain away..
if nothing else I saved the above cash from electric anyway (off of titans) of $575 this winter anywary....when our "outer space alien overlord masters' take the Earth over and make this all moot and btc is 'beanie babies" heh

well at least you saved that!
