Residential Service Low Income

Estimates, not quotes. We run three made-up but realistic households through this tariff hour by hour for a full year — including the way air conditioning loads the afternoon and an EV loads the small hours. Your own bill depends on when you actually use electricity, which is exactly the thing a per-kWh number hides.

The hour of day does not change what you pay here — the month does. Running the same house through the full year, July costs about $154 and February about $76. That $78 swing is part rate and part weather, and it is the reason a budget built on your spring bill will break in July.

There is a usage cliff to watch. The first 600 kWh each month are billed at 13.8¢; past that line the rate steps up to 14.4¢ — 4% more for every unit after. The last kilowatt-hour of a heavy month is the expensive one, which is why cutting a little off a big month saves more than cutting the same amount off a small one.

Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 3rd cheapest of 5. The cheapest option, RS - TOD, would run about $484 a year less.

Against Residential Service, which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $30 less per year (2%). We infer the default from the tariff structure rather than a flag in the data, so confirm it against your own bill before you switch.