If it's anything like where I live, it wouldn't matter. My power company gets permission to change the rate structure all the time. Just yesterday, a new natural gas fired power plant went online locally after being offline for ~3 years while they demolished an old facility (built in the 1950s) and rebuilt it from the ground up. As a result, the "non-fuel energy charges" on my bill just went up, so the investor owned utility can recover their "investment". The newer NG fueled plant was sold as using cheaper domestically produced NG fuel. The net result to the customer is expected to be a $1.25 increase in the average bill of 1,000kWh per month.
I built my own energy efficient power plant on the roof of my house in 2013. I bought 42kWh last month from the grid. Ironically, 42kWh is less than my electric water heater consumed...
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