Just be happy you don't live in Norway.
Usually and through the past years we have nothing to complaint about
regarding to price level of el. power supply.
But during the last year or two it really took off. As you might now,
we have a lot of waterfalls who are rebuild to run the turbins, but
the Weather Gods don't always do as we wish, either it rains to much
or far less than needed.
Never the less, the prices rise, and just now the management supervisors
sitting in a crise meeting to figure out how to rise the price even more,
because it's raining too much, and the water reservoir overflow.
A few weeks/months ago the crise meetings was about rise the price because
of the dry weather.
Here we read our meter ourselves, and send a card, and of course that is a
reason to rise the prices even more, because they have the trouble to read
what we wrote.
Hopefully our suppliers read this too, but I guess they don't play
keyboards, and also I realize my post is a kind of off-topic
Happy X-Mas with lots of electic decorations everyone.
GJ