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[furrowtickler]

https://www.saskpower.com/Accounts-and-Services/Billing/Power-Rates/Power-Supply-Rates https://www.saskpower.com/Accounts-and-Services/Billing/Power-Rates/Power-Supply-Rates

The rate farmers pay is below residential users. Residential rate is 0.1422 per kWh, Farm rate .12658 per kWh up to 16,000 kwh per month. Basic Monthly charge for farms is $34.97 vs residential basic charge is $22.79 for cities and towns.

Do you really think that $12/month extra for basic charge on farms covers all the extra distribution and maintenance costs to all the farms in Saskatchewan? I don't think so.

What is the cost of delivering electricity to all farms versus residential and industrial users? I think you will find that the rural grid system is much more expensive to install and maintain because of the many thousands of miles of lines versus the relatively few miles needed to supply the many more customers in cities and towns.

Do you honestly think that all rural distributions are solely for farms ?? Really ?
Once set up cost is very minimal
The expense comes from the big transmission lines .... they are not going to farms
You should show us mr farmer hater just how much our share is
We will wait .
Your post already proved you half wrong , we do pay more .

[chuckChuck]

I don't have the breakdown of cost of supplying rural vs city and towns in Saskatchewan.

Only Saskpower has those numbers. Lots of large industrial users get rates well below farmers as well.

So roughly 50,000 farmers pay an extra $12 per month. That adds up to a $600,000 per month or $7.2 Million per year. Does that cover all the additional capital and maintenance costs of all the rural farm grid? I doubt it.

I am not saying the lower rate per kwh for farmers is bad policy. I am just saying that farmers are not paying the full cost of delivering electricity to their widely dispersed farms and are likely subsidized by the more numerous residential and industrial users who are more concentrated in cities and towns.

I am farmer too, so I get the benefits of lower rates.

[furrowtickler]

I don't have the breakdown of cost of supplying rural vs city and towns in Saskatchewan.

Only Saskpower has those numbers. Lots of large industrial users get rates well below farmers as well.

So roughly 50,000 farmers pay an extra $12 per month. That adds up to a $600,000 per month or $7.2 Million per year. Does that cover all the additional capital and maintenance costs of all the rural farm grid? I doubt it.

I am not saying the lower rate per kwh for farmers is bad policy. I am just saying that farmers are not paying the full cost of delivering electricity to their widely dispersed farms and are likely subsidized by the more numerous residential and industrial users who are more concentrated in cities and towns.

I am farmer too, so I get the benefits of lower rates.

Well there not lower

[chuckChuck]

The rate farmers pay is below residential users. Residential rate is 0.1422 per kWh, Farm rate .12658 per kWh up to 16,000 kwh per month.

Most farmers use several thousand kwh per year and the basic service charge is a very small amount of the cost of most farmer's bills.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I am farmer too, so I get the benefits of lower rates.

You forgot the LOL at the end of that sentence. You use it after almost every not humorous statement, then you make a whopper of a joke like this, and don't finish off with LMAO, or HAHAHA etc.
I don't get it.

[chuckChuck]

LMAO LOL hahaha. You are too funny there A5!

[farming101]

Farms in Saskatchewan pay more for their electricity than any other commercial segment. There is no subsidy for farms in Saskatchewan.

[chuckChuck]

You cant say that unless you know the actual cost of delivering to industrial, commercial, farms and residential customers.

Irrigation farmers get a much lower rate than the general farm rate. 6 to 7 cents per kwh

"Saskatchewan’s largest consuming sector for electricity in 2017 was industrial at 12.4 TW.h. The commercial and residential sectors consumed 7.1 TW.h and 3.5 TW.h, respectively. Saskatchewan’s electricity demand has grown 43% since 2005."

[furrowtickler]

You cant say that unless you know the actual cost of delivering to industrial, commercial, farms and residential customers.

Irrigation farmers get a much lower rate than the general farm rate.

"Saskatchewan’s largest consuming sector for electricity in 2017 was industrial at 12.4 TW.h. The commercial and residential sectors consumed 7.1 TW.h and 3.5 TW.h, respectively. Saskatchewan’s electricity demand has grown 43% since 2005."

Like any government run agency, costs are way inflated to begin with .... crop insurance is a clear example
But so is dental by anyone, covered by insurance by most government worker so cost is way over inflated to the public

[farming101]

Sask Power sets the rates. They charge farm businesses more than any other commercial segment.
Before power went underground in our area most poles were the same ones placed in 1952. My guess is they were all paid for