Yeah it might be easy for municipal electricity to win on price when the bar is set at $0.42/kWh. Out here our evil private company is charging $0.11/kWh. I have serious doubts any municipality anywhere could deliver power for half that.
Cleveland Public Power rates online are <$0.10/kWh in the summer and <$0.05/kWh in the winter.
After all, if humans were randomly distributed on planet Earth according to the local environment's carrying capacity, 100 000 years later Id expect to find a lot more human remains in Eritrea than the Pontine marshes.