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In Finland system is setup for this.

First you pay for the electricity itself, can be from anyone, as on the level of the country in question electricity is entirely fungible.

Next is the connection or standing fee. Make sense, eventually you have to pay for the transformer and cabling to your home, even if in some location this is rather high.

And final piece is taxes + transfer fee paid by kWh. Again, you have pay for the local grid and charging by use makes some sense.

There is two prices that vary per use and one that doesn't. And reasonably so. Maintaining existing lines have a cost.



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