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Evergy Metro rate plans
4 residential plans are currently open to new customers that we can price side by side. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.
What does Evergy Metro cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,675 a year on the cheapest of the 7 plans we can price here — Residential Schedule General Use 1RS1A, 1RSDA, 1RS1B — and $2,134 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $912 | Separately Metered Electric Vehicle Time of Use (Schedule RTOU-EV) | $1,139 |
| 1,000 kWh | $1,675 | Residential Schedule General Use 1RS1A, 1RSDA, 1RS1B | $2,134 |
| 2,000 kWh | $2,950 | Residential Schedule R General Use and Space Heat - 2 Meters - 1RS2A. 1RS3A. 1RW7A. 1RH1A | $4,124 |
The cheapest plan here changes with how much you use. That happens where tiers reward a small household and a big fixed charge rewards a large one — so the right answer depends on your own bill, not on an average. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.
How much does the plan you pick actually matter here?
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through every plan Evergy Metro files in Missouri, and the bill lands anywhere between $1,360 and $1,435 a year. That $75 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.
Those figures describe Missouri, because comparing across zones would be misleading: your zone is set by where you live, not by anything you can choose. The plan lists further down are grouped the same way, so compare inside your own group — your bill names it.
3 of these 4 plans price by the hour. Those are the ones where moving laundry, dishes, or car charging into the cheap window changes the bill; on the rest, the clock is irrelevant and only the total matters. Which camp you belong in is the first question worth settling, because it decides whether shifting your day is worth anything at all.
How Evergy Metro compares across Kansas
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 2 Kansas utilities we cover, and Evergy Metro is the dearest of the lot at about $1,388 a year; the state median is $1,310. The cheapest, Evergy Kansas Central, charges $1,231 for identical use — a gap set by the address, not by anything either household did.
The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $792 here against a state median of $753, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $1,772 against $1,706. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 14.7¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Inside Evergy Metro itself, the gap between its cheapest and dearest plan for that house is $75 a year — less than the $157 between Kansas's cheapest and dearest utilities. Here the address decides most of the bill; the plan decides the rest.
Every Kansas utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
When are Evergy Metro’s peak hours?
Evergy Metro’s peak hours are 4pm–8pm, June–September on 4 of its 6 time-of-use plans — the rest use different windows, below. Everything outside those hours is off-peak, apart from a mid-priced shoulder period.
At peak, Residential High Differential Time of Use charges 36.2¢ a kWh; off-peak it is 2.6¢ — 14.1× apart. These hours only matter on a time-of-use plan — the default plan, Residential Other Use ROU, charges one rate at every hour.
| Plan | Peak hours | Peak | Off-peak | Weekends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential High Differential Time of Use (Schedule RTOU-3)Missouri | 4pm–8pm, June–September | 36.2¢ | 2.6¢ | partly priced |
| Residential Time Of Use - PilotKansas | 4pm–8pm, June–September | 28.1¢ | 4.1¢ | partly priced |
| Residential Time of Use - Two Period (Schedule RTOU-2)Missouri | 4pm–8pm, June–September | 38.6¢ | 6.0¢ | partly priced |
| Residential Time Of Use Two-PeriodKansas | 4pm–8pm, June–September | 30.3¢ | 7.0¢ | partly priced |
| Residential Peak Adjustment Service (Schedule RPKA)Missouri | 4pm–9pm, June–September | 15.4¢ | 11.5¢ | partly priced |
| Separately Metered Electric Vehicle Time of Use (Schedule RTOU-EV)Missouri | 4pm–9pm, June–September | 36.2¢ | 2.6¢ | partly priced |
On Residential High Differential Time of Use, every kilowatt-hour a day you move from 4pm to midnight is worth about $120 a year in the month the gap is widest — an electric car or a water heater on a timer is the kind of load that actually moves. When to charge an electric car →
Which plan would cost you least?
No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what a month costs you and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.
That adds up to 9,497 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.
Same usage, different plan
$423a year
That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Residential Demand Service Pilot (RD) — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.
| Plan | Per year | Vs best |
|---|---|---|
| Residential Demand Service Pilot (RD)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September. | $865 | — |
| Residential Standard Service (Schedule R)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September. | $1,098 | +$233 |
| Residential Time Of Use - PilotPeak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year. | $1,139 | +$274 |
| Residential Time Of Use Two-PeriodPeak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year. | $1,262 | +$397 |
| Residential Other Use Service (Schedule ROU)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September. | $1,288 | +$423 |
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.
Before you switch anything
- What is a time-of-use electricity rate?
The same kilowatt-hour, priced differently depending on when you use it.
- Should you switch to a time-of-use electricity plan?
A wide peak-to-off-peak gap is a lever, not a saving. Levers need something to move.
- 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.
Kansas
- Residential Demand Service Pilot (RD)demand charge
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.
5.6–10.7¢ - Residential Other Use Service (Schedule ROU)flat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.
10.9–13.5¢ - Residential Standard Service (Schedule R)flat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.
9.0–11.3¢ - Residential Time Of Use - Pilottime-of-use
Peak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year.
4.1–28.1¢ - Residential Time Of Use Two-Periodtime-of-use
Peak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year.
7.0–30.3¢
Missouri
- Residential High Differential Time of Use (Schedule RTOU-3)time-of-use
Peak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year.
2.6–36.2¢ - Residential Other Use ROUflat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.
14.8–19.0¢ - Residential Peak Adjustment Service (Schedule RPKA)time-of-use
Peak hits 4pm–9pm every day, all year.
6.0–16.4¢ - Residential Schedule General Use 1RS1A, 1RSDA, 1RS1Bflat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.
7.1–15.8¢ - Residential Schedule R General Use and Space Heat - 2 Meters - 1RS2A. 1RS3A. 1RW7A. 1RH1Aflat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.
6.9–14.7¢ - Residential Time of Use - Two Period (Schedule RTOU-2)time-of-use
Peak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year.
6.0–38.6¢ - Separately Metered Electric Vehicle Time of Use (Schedule RTOU-EV)time-of-use
Peak hits 4pm–9pm every day, all year.
2.6–36.2¢