Residential Service (R1A): Zone 1

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 $279 and February about $144. That $134 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 1050 kWh each month are billed at 25.7¢; past that line the rate steps up to 29.2¢ — 14% 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 4th cheapest of 4. The cheapest option, Residential Multi-Family (R-3), would run about $397 a year less.