I'm familiar with the Sir Adam Beck plant, I grew up in and live in Niagara County.

Not everything produced by the NYPA goes to munis. There is a lot sold direct to businesses; last I checked roughly 5% of the generation from the Niagara Power Project is allocated for businesses in WNY in a 30 mile ring. ( Although a sizeable chunk of that goes back to the wholesale markets because there aren't enough qualified companies to take it. )

I can guarantee that some of that power ended up with you. Every commercial supplier in NY buys from the wholesale market at some point, and a lot of NYPA power ends up there.

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 6:04 PM John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

In article <CAL9Qcx5PkJ1RZqjrUiKoGe=1+oOwSc6zkhPFemJGn_EV2ur=Qw@mail.gmail.com> you write:
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>It helps that we have a 2.6GW pumped storage generation facility near
>Niagara Falls. :)

It does, but all that power goes to the munis, not the commercial
company that supplies me. We do import a lot of hydro power from
Quebec. There's another power plant the same size on the other side
of the river that provides power for Toronto.

>On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 5:05 PM Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
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>> > I don't know where you live, but I pay around 38 cents/KWh. Depending
>> > on your rate, that can go up to 53 cents/KWh during peak times.
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>> I live in upstate New York where I pay about 8c/kwh and a fixed $15/mo
>> connection charge. We have day/night rates available but they're not very
>> different for retail customers. I get a slight discount due to credits
>> from remote net metering at a nearby solar farm.