![]() In short: improved energy effiency and cleaner, more diverse power generation offset the higher energy costs. The fact is, if you price electricity at what it costs to produce clean energy, there are enough bucks to buy turbines and photovoltaics and there is lots of incentive to use less energy and run houses and businesses more efficiently. Yet their economy is booming and their poverty rate is half that of Canada. Applying the Economist's famous Big Mac purchasing power parity index to the price of power, Danish electricity is three times as expensive as ours (or their Big Mac's are really cheap!). notes that we don't pay very much for electricity here compared to other countries like Denmark. ![]() Treehugger scoops a graphic from the Toronto Star comparing the price of electricity in various countries by plotting how many Big Macs can be purchased for the price of a megawatt-hour of electricity.įeeding an appetite for electricity: How many 'Big Macs' could be bought for the cost of one megawatt-hour of electricity (Image Credit: Toronto Star via Trehugger) Peak Oil The Big Mac Index of Energy Costs
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