Washington Electric Coop - (VT) rate plans

What does Washington Electric Coop - (VT)'s residential rate cost?

Washington Electric Coop - (VT) 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 $1,388 and a three-bedroom house with central air to about $2,514 — an effective 28.5¢ and 26.6¢ 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 $286 in July and $163 in February. Budget against the higher figure and the summer bill stops being a surprise.

Making sense of the bill

• How to read your electric bill

  Four kinds of charge, only two of which you can do anything about.

• Fixed charges on your electric bill: what they are and why they matter

  The line that makes cents-per-kilowatt-hour comparisons quietly wrong.

• How to compare electricity plans without getting it wrong

  Six things that break a comparison, and the order to check them in.