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San Miguel Power Assn, Inc rate plans
2 residential plans are currently open to new customers. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $2,274 a year on Single Phase Non-Demand TOU, the only residential plan here — $1,335 at 500 kWh, $4,153 at 2,000 kWh.
What does San Miguel Power Assn, Inc's residential rate cost?
San Miguel Power Assn, Inc files a single residential tariff, so there is no plan to choose between — everyone served here is on the same terms. That makes this page short on comparison and long on one question instead: what does that tariff actually do to a bill?
Priced hour by hour across a full year, a small apartment on this tariff comes to about $1,002 and a three-bedroom house with central air to about $1,551 — an effective 20.6¢ and 16.4¢ per kilowatt-hour once the fixed charge is spread across everything used.
With one plan and no hourly pricing, the only lever left is using less. Moving laundry or car charging to the middle of the night changes nothing here, which is worth knowing before you rearrange your evenings for no reason.
Expect the bill to swing with the weather rather than with anything you decide: the same house costs around $166 in July and $106 in February. Budget against the higher figure and the summer bill stops being a surprise.
How San Miguel Power Assn compares across Colorado
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 3 Colorado utilities we cover, and San Miguel Power Assn is the dearest of the lot at about $1,875 a year; the state median is $1,639. The cheapest, City of Colorado Springs, charges $1,433 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 $1,155 here against a state median of $884, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $2,277 against $2,228. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 19.8¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Every Colorado utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
When are San Miguel Power Assn’s peak hours?
San Miguel Power Assn’s peak hours are 4pm–9pm. Everything outside those hours is off-peak.
At peak, Single Phase Non-Demand TOU charges 25.0¢ a kWh; off-peak it is 11.0¢ — 2.3× apart.
On Single Phase Non-Demand TOU, every kilowatt-hour a day you move from 4pm to midnight is worth about $51 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 8,219 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.
Same usage, different plan
$274a year
That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Single Phase Non-Demand TOD Peak — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.
| Plan | Per year | Vs best |
|---|---|---|
| Single Phase Non-Demand TOD PeakOne rate, every hour of the year. | $1,402 | — |
| Single Phase Non-Demand TOUPeak hits 4pm–9pm every day, all year. | $1,676 | +$274 |
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.