idk where that place pulls from but i pay $.08/kWh. when i lived further north it was $0.02.

there was a period where the prices went to what you quoted but that was in connection to the nord stream sabotage where germany's prices skyrocketed and ours were dragged up along with them.

The price of electricity in a country usually has nothing to do with whether power lines are run above or below the ground. Very often a large part of your electricity price is determined by taxes and subsidies for example. And in my country (the Netherlands) the suppliers of electricity are different companies than the ones responsible for the power network too. Like Sweden we haven't had residential power lines running above ground for half a century or so, it's pretty uncommon in (Western?) Europe.

Well yeah, it's quite easy to keep your energy prices low when you

• have a wealth of hydrocarbon sources in-country
• supplement them by bombing other nations until they give you there's
• don't give a flying fuch about the planet

That could be it.

Digging isn't free in Sweden either, right? Maybe OP thinks they're ugly, but sometimes good enough is good enough.

Sweden has residential electricity prices at $0.2768/kWh.

The US averages $0.1798/kWh.

I accept the cost-benefits analysis and wish to proceed on this quote.

That has nothing to do with the power lines