Your link gives a number of 33 cents per kWH for consumption above 501 kWH&#x2F;month.<p>I was comparing the U.S. with Costa Rica.<p>The average U.S. home uses 901 kWH&#x2F;month, which would put you in the 33 cents per kWH bracket (the source I found earlier said 30, which is pretty close).<p>The &quot;peak&quot; and &quot;off-peak&quot; pricing doesn&#x27;t really enter into it, since most of the things you&#x27;d want to use a lot of electricity for (e.g., air conditioning) are time-dependent, and can&#x27;t easily be shifted to &quot;off-peak&quot; times.<p>So, no, the numbers I was using aren&#x27;t incorrect.<p>&quot;Multiplying by 5 because incomes are 20% of US wages, doesn&#x27;t make any sense to me.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure why this doesn&#x27;t make any sense. You spend x% of your income for electricity. Costa Ricans have to spend 5x% of their income to get the same amount of electricity. It seems perfectly straightforward to me.<p>In actuality, it&#x27;s even worse than that, since someone in Costa Rica is going to have far less discretionary income to cover things like outrageous power bills.