What You're Actually Paying For on Your Electric Bill

Описание: Where does your electric bill money go? Follow one dollar from the meter, through the wires and the power plant, to the auction that sets the price. The Edison meter started it all as a lab apparatus in a basement; the bill now has three parts, and only one of them is the power.

Sources (SOURCE ONLY · BRAND FOR IDENTIFICATION ONLY · NO SPONSORSHIP):
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Annual Energy Outlook 2025, Table 8; Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.3 (release 23 Oct 2026); Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.B (residential); Energy Explained, Prices and factors affecting prices; FAQ 97, FAQ 105, FAQ 507; Today in Energy 56660 (31 May 2023) and 63724 (18 Nov 2024); Delivery to consumers
PJM Interconnection capacity auction results (13 states and D.C.; delivery year June 2026 to May 2027)
The Henry Ford, "Electricity? I'll Take a Pound...", 19 Oct 2017 (Edison electrolytic meter)

The 60 / 14 / 26 split is EIA's 2024 estimate for all customers, not your bill. The auction applies to PJM's grid only. Where the video says "ROUGH MATH" or "OUR MATH", the arithmetic is ours.

Chapters:
0:00 Cold Open
0:13 What You Pay
0:48 Follow the Dollar
1:04 The Odometer
1:33 Twins
1:59 The Street
2:19 The Pearl
2:36 Copper
2:51 The Record
3:04 Spend
3:39 Towers
4:01 The Haul
4:27 Kitchen
4:50 The Peak
5:26 Subtotal
5:47 The Promise
6:05 The Cap
6:20 Why
6:39 The Total
7:00 Fair
7:22 Meaning
7:51 The End

Altered or synthetic content: Yes (AI narration; 3D diorama scenes and a 2D Receipt mascot; no real people, no likeness).
The narration is AI-generated (text-to-speech).