The Maintenance for the equipment and people to operate it. Hydroelectricity is generated at damns. essentially it is almost free because the water does all the work, but it does not create a lot of electricity
To answer this question a total wattage of the heaters and the cost per kilowatt hour must be stated. The cost per kilowatt hour can be obtained from your Ontario Hydro bill. Multiply the total wattage by the length of time in hours that the heaters are in operation. This will give you the cost of operation of the heaters.
Based on 7 cents a kilowatt hour, your cost would be seven one hundredth of a cent.
It differs from region to region and country to country. The cost is dependant on the method the electricity is generated. One of the lowest production costs is hydro electrical generation. I pay 8 cents a kilowatt hour.
12 cents a kilowatt hour <<>> It depends on where you live in this world. One of the big considerations is where the power is generated, how far the power has to be transmitted and by what means of a prime mover is used. The cheapest power to generate is from hydro electric. This can involve dams or run of river generating systems. Where I live, hydro generation is used and I pay .08 cents a kilowatt hour for the first 1600 kilowatt hours and over that the rate jumps to 11 cents a kilowatt hour. Phone your local electrical utility supply distributor and ask them what rate you pay. It should also be stated on your monthly bill what the rate is.
The 2.03 cents per kilowatt hour cost for nuclear power is inaccurate. December 19, 2011. New study published by National Bureau of Economic Research states: Pg 23 of the report, Table 3 lists the levelized cost of nuclear power as 8.7 cents per kilowatt hour (MIT 2009), and 6.7 cents for natural gas.
h does electricity cost per kilowatt hour at wales?
Your term "hydro" is another term for kilowatt hours. So to answer your question a 4800 watt heater on for an hour would consume 4.8 kilowatt/hours. To take it further if you knew what you pay for a kilowatt hour in your area, multiply it by 4.8 and you could see how much it costs you to operate the heater. An example if you pay .11 cents a kilowatt hour, the price would be .528 or 53 cents an hour.
It depends upon what the power company charges.
To determine the average cost of electricity you have to take into account how the electricity is generated. The generating costs have to be added into the cost to the consumer. I receive electricity from one the least expensive type of electrical generation there is. My power comes from a hydro electric dam. I am being charged .07 cents a kilowatt hour.
A kilowatt hour is a unit of work or energy, and the product of power in kilowatts and time in hours. So, for example, it can be the work done, at a rate of one kilowatt, over a period of one hour.
Discussing the cost of a kilowatt is nonsensical. If you want to discuss the cost of a unit of electrical energy, Kilowatt-hour makes sense.
$0.91200 per Kilowatt-Hour (kWh) Yanceyville NC (2006)