OOPS! I meant to say 10.6 cents per kWh above!! Gurus tell me that first achieve 240 kWh per month or less electric usage, and best to get a super-efficient fridge and freezer, and go with the best daylighting and compact fluorescent / LED lights. I'm plenty warm with a wood stove, using a bare hot water tank beside it for hot water, and have been cooking most meals on the stove-top with the only trouble being everything cooks fast, and I've gotta watch it! The better new small engines come with oil pressure pumps, low oil indicators, fuel, oil, and air filters, and are built to last - so making a wood gas electric/heat system might prove durable enough for home use. I'm leaning towards the new lithium-iron phosphate batteries for backup storage and grid intertie - Lithium Iron is better for the environment and is more plentiful, but carbon nanotube supercaps might be in the future as well..

My average monthly electric bill is around $42.00 U.S.
My average monthly usage is 240 kilowatt hours (kWh)
The average price I pay is something like $10.6 / kWh

I'm pretty efficient, but let's see.. A lot of the compact fluorescents are 27W jobs, and I'm getting more 13W ones to replace those energy hogs. The fridge is newer, but not super-efficient, so there's room for improvement there - with the best available, that could save $5.00 - $10.00 per month.. If I can keep things around 200 kWh per month I think solar will be in my future - and there's plenty enough light with the windows, compact fluorescents, etc in winter.
I'd like to add a wood gasifier engine power system in the future - hot water in winter, and plenty of efficient electric to boot - makes perfect sense in this land of dark winters here in N. Wisconsin!!
Hope you all keep warm in this season of arctic challenges!

sigh my rate is ~60% over that getting a new place soon it should help, lights may not flicker and insulated