Rate 74: TOU Electric Vehicle Residential Service

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.

This is a time-of-use plan, which means the clock decides your bill as much as the meter does. At the worst hour you pay 22.6¢ a kWh; at the best hour, 17.4¢ — 1.3× apart for identical electricity.

That gap is worth real money only if you can move load into it. Every kilowatt-hour a day you shift from 1pm to midnight is about $19 a year. A dishwasher run is roughly 1.5 kWh; an EV commute charge is 8 to 12. If your day is fixed — you are home in the evening and the air conditioner runs when it runs — a plan like this costs you more, not less.

Expect the bill to move with the calendar. The same family home costs about $213 in July and $114 in February — a $99 spread driven by heating and cooling far more than by anything you chose. Budget against the July figure, not the average, and a summer bill stops being a surprise.

Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 1st cheapest of 3 — nothing else here beats it for that household.

Against Rate 01 Residential Service, which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $550 less per year (23%). 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.