Posted by K Effective on August 08, 2019 at 11:50:18 from (99.184.108.123):
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I just checked with my buddy, who runs eleven pivots on his farms. They paid to run three phase electric to the home farm to power a well that supplies three different pivots. There is another electric pump that covers two more. The other six are powered by three diesel-driven pumps.
When originally installed, the electric was far less expensive, allowing for a short payback for the installation cost of the service (this was done 10-15 years ago). Since then, the electric utility has made a drastic change to the fees- they charge a huge up-front fee for the service annually whether you pump a gallon or a million. I forgot to validate it today, but I remember something like $1500 due in March per service. This, reportedly, was in response to the utility losing huge amounts of money to the Mike Stamp Farms conglomerate in unpaid electricity usage.
There are, of course, other costs that differentiate the two power sources, but factoring only fuel and oil changes his current cost estimate is $6 per inch of water per acre from the diesel wells and $9 per inch of water per acre for the electric.
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