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City of Tacoma - (WA) rate plans
13 residential plans are currently open to new customers. None of them price by hour, so shifting when you use power won’t change your bill here.
How much does the plan you pick actually matter here?
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through every plan City of Tacoma - (WA) files, and the bill lands anywhere between $758 and $1,251 a year. That $493 spread is not a difference in electricity — it is the same kilowatt-hours, from the same wires, priced under different rules. Nobody sends you a letter when you are on the wrong side of it.
The plan most households land on by default, Residential Service - Schedule A-1, comes to about $1,166. The cheapest option here, Residential Service - Schedule A-2, comes to $758 — a gap of about $408 a year for a household that never changed a single habit. Whether you can actually capture that depends on when you use power, which is what the calculator below is for.
None of these 13 plans price by the hour, so when you use electricity here makes no difference to what you pay — only how much. That narrows your options to two levers: use less, or pick the plan whose fixed charge and tier structure suit your size of household.
Watch the fixed charges too. Across these plans they run from $221 to $364 a year before a single kilowatt-hour is counted. For a small household that difference alone can outweigh the per-kWh price, which is why comparing cents per kilowatt-hour on its own quietly misleads.
Which plan would cost you least?
No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what you use and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.
That adds up to 7,914 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.
Same usage, different plan
$436a year
That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Residential Service - Schedule A-2 — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.
| Plan | Per year | Vs best |
|---|---|---|
| Residential Service - Schedule A-2One rate, every hour of the year. | $670 | — |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Fife - collectively metered apartmentsOne rate, every hour of the year. | $969 | +$299 |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Fircrest - collectively metered apartmentsOne rate, every hour of the year. | $969 | +$299 |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Lakewood - collectively metered apartmentsOne rate, every hour of the year. | $969 | +$299 |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Steilacoom - collectively metered apartmentsOne rate, every hour of the year. | $969 | +$299 |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - Collectively Metered ApartmentsOne rate, every hour of the year. | $969 | +$299 |
| Residential Service - Schedule A-1One rate, every hour of the year. | $1,031 | +$361 |
| Residential Service - Schedule A-1 - City of FifeOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,031 | +$361 |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - City of FircrestOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,031 | +$361 |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - City of LakewoodOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,031 | +$361 |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - City of SteilacoomOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,031 | +$361 |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - City of University Place - collectively metered apartmentsOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,039 | +$369 |
| RS - Schedule A-1 - City of University PlaceOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,106 | +$436 |
An estimate, not a quote. Supply charges move month to month, and your real usage pattern is not exactly this one. What it does show reliably is the gap between plans — both are priced off the same assumptions.
Making sense of the bill
- How to read your electric bill
Four kinds of charge, only two of which you can do anything about.
- Fixed charges on your electric bill: what they are and why they matter
The line that makes cents-per-kilowatt-hour comparisons quietly wrong.
- How to compare electricity plans without getting it wrong
Six things that break a comparison, and the order to check them in.
Every plan, in detail
Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.
- Residential Service - Schedule A-1flat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - Residential Service - Schedule A-1 - City of Fifeflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - Residential Service - Schedule A-2flat
One rate, every hour of the year.
5.7¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Fife - collectively metered apartmentsflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Fircrestflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Fircrest - collectively metered apartmentsflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Lakewoodflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Lakewood - collectively metered apartmentsflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Steilacoomflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - City of Steilacoom - collectively metered apartmentsflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - City of University Placeflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
9.4¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - City of University Place - collectively metered apartmentsflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
9.4¢ - RS - Schedule A-1 - Collectively Metered Apartmentsflat
One rate, every hour of the year.
8.7¢