Break It Down
The $0.95 per day charge shown on your bill.
What is the account charge?
Occurs from 3-6 pm, April 1 - October 31; and from 6-9 am, November 1 - March 31.
What are peak hours?
Limiting use of multiple large appliances in the home and staggering the times I use these appliances.
What is reducing peak?
The Energy Charge for 1000 kWh on the new rate (w/o WPCA).
What is $69.00?
Drying my clothes with an electric clothes dryer from 6-9pm in the summer will contribute to my monthly peak.
What is False?
(The on-peak hours are from 3-6pm in the summer so you would be drying clothes off peak from 6-9pm)
The $0.069 per kWh charge on your bill.
What is the energy charge?
The term for using multiple high demand appliances at one time.
What is stacking?
Without special equipment, this large appliance "load" in a typical home is the easiest to shift, helping reduce the peak.
What is the clothes dryer?
The $ amount shown on the bill as a credit for a member who used 1176 kWh during their last billing cycle.
What is -$11.76?
Cooking on a gas stove from 6-7 am during the winter hours will increase my peak.
What is False?
A gas stove will not contribute to peak use.
The $12 per kW charge on your bill.
What is the peak charge?
The actual duration of time you are billed for the Peak Charge, or the highest interval during the peak hours.
What is 1 hour?
The kWh charge is $0.498 during this time.
What are the prepay on-peak hours?
On a prepay account, the amount of off-peak use in a day if a member uses 65 kWh total and 30 kWh on-peak.
What is 35 kWh?
It is possible to use more kWh during a billing cycle and still have a lower bill vs the old rate structure.
What is True?
(Depending on the billed peak, you can actually use more kWh and still pay less due to the lower kWh charge)
What is the Wholesale Power Cost Adjustment? (WPCA)
This is the rate where I pay for every peak hour in the billing cycle.
What is Advance Pay/Prepay?
This was done to give you the opportunity to control your bill without being forced to reduce the total amount of power you use each month.
What is the restructured rate?
The $ amount the Peak Charge will increase if I run a 1 kW well pump 24/7 for a whole month at my home to fill a pond.
What is $12.00?
I have an electric water heater. Taking a shower during the 2-3pm hour in the summer can contribute to my peak.
What is True?
(If no timer is present, the water heater may still be reheating the water into the following hour depending on how much hot water was used.)
The component of the rate that adjusts for changes in purchased power.
What is the Wholesale Power Cost Adjustment? (WPCA)
The amount I paid on my Peak Charge because I let my 5 kW EV charger run during my peak hours every day for the billing cycle.
What is $60.00?
These 2 appliances found in most homes will use the most electricity regardless of whether you are home or not and can contribute to your peak even if you are not there.
What are HVAC systems and water heaters?
The portion of my Peak Charge ($ amount) for running a 2 kW space heater for 30 minutes during my billed peak hour.
What is $12.00?
Johnny turns on a 1.5 kW space heater from 8:30-9:30 am in the winter. This will increase his 8-9am peak by 1.5 kW.
What is False?
(The space heater only ran for half of the on-peak hour, so it would increase his peak by 0.75 kW.)