When are City of Lansing’s peak hours?
City of Lansing’s peak hours are 1pm–8pm, June–September. Everything outside those hours is off-peak, apart from a mid-priced shoulder period.
At peak, Residential Electric Service - Off Peak Savers charges 29.6¢ a kWh; off-peak it is 10.9¢ — 2.7× apart. Prices from the filed tariff.
These hours only apply if you are on a time-of-use plan. City of Lansing’s standard plan charges one rate at every hour of the day. A household that never switched has no peak hours to avoid — and no cheap hours to use.
What the day looks like on Residential Electric Service - Off Peak Savers
- peak29.62¢
- mid11.09¢
- off-peak10.86¢
Full pricing, eligibility and the annual cost for three households: Residential Electric Service - Off Peak Savers (TOU) →
Every City of Lansing plan with peak hours
| Plan | Peak hours | Peak | Off-peak | Weekends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential Electric Service - Off Peak Savers (TOU) | 1pm–8pm, June–September | 29.6¢ | 10.9¢ | partly priced |
Peak and off-peak are the highest and lowest energy prices on each plan; some plans add a shoulder price between them. Fixed monthly charges are not included here — they are on each plan’s page.
What is it worth to move a load out of peak?
On Residential Electric Service - Off Peak Savers, every kilowatt-hour a day you move from 1pm to midnight is worth about $68 a year in the month the gap is widest. An electric car charging 10 kWh a night, or a water heater on a timer, is the kind of load that actually moves.
When should you charge an electric car at home? →Where this comes from
Hours and prices are read from the tariff City of Lansing filed with its regulator, as published in the NREL Utility Rate Database, and drawn the same way on every plan page. If your plan is not listed here, either it has no hourly pricing or its filing is too old or too partial for us to price honestly — we leave those out rather than guess.