I have NYSEG which tacks on:
Merchant function charge
supply charge
Delivery charge
basic service charge
revenue decoupling mech
SBC charge (welfare/low income fund)
Then taxes on top of all these charges at 2.04%
IIRC, National Greed does the same thing. When I had NiMo, there were the actual usage charges, and line charges, and all the other ways that they nickeled and dimed you to death.
The upside of “municipal” electric service is that the cost to run the utility is paid in my property taxes. However, those costs are a little less transparent. My monthly bill reflects the actual usage charges @7 cents per kWh. As best I can tell, we don’t pay the welfare charge.
Since Fairport Municipal Electric is a not for profit operation, there aren’t the other charges. I would have to dig out my taxes from last year to see what the overall cost to run the utility is. I think it’s a flat $150 of my county property tax bill.