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Rates & Rate Design
54 resultsBaseline Allowance
rates and rate designA baseline allowance is the amount of power you can use each month at the lowest tier price. Higher prices kick in above it. It is meant ...
Bundled Rate
rates and rate designA bundled rate means one utility provides everything. It makes the power, moves it across the grid, and delivers it to your home. You pay...
Capacity Charge
rates and rate designA capacity charge covers the cost of keeping enough power resources ready. They must be able to meet demand on the highest-use days. It i...
Coincident Peak Demand
rates and rate designCoincident peak demand is your power use at one key moment. That moment is when the whole system hits its highest point, like a hot summe...
Critical Peak Pricing (CPP)
rates and rate designCritical peak pricing is a rate plan where electricity costs much more during a small number of 'event' hours each year, usually announce...
Curtailable Rate
rates and rate designA curtailable rate offers a discount, usually to large businesses. In return, the customer agrees to cut power use down to a preset level...
Customer Charge
rates and rate designThe customer charge is a fixed amount on your bill each month that stays the same no matter how much electricity you use. It covers thing...
Declining Block Rate
rates and rate designA declining block rate is the opposite of an inclining one: the first block of monthly usage costs the most per unit, and usage above tha...
Default Service Rate
rates and rate designThe default service rate is the supply price you pay in a retail choice state if you have not picked a competitive supplier. Your utility...
Demand Charge
rates and rate designA demand charge is a fee based on your highest level of electricity use at any one time during the billing month, measured in kilowatts. ...
Demand Ratchet
rates and rate designA demand ratchet is a billing rule. It can keep your demand charge high after one big usage spike. If your peak jumps one month, the util...
Demand Subscription
rates and rate designA demand subscription lets you pick a set level of power demand, in kilowatts. You pay a steady charge for it each month. It is much like...
Distribution Charge
rates and rate designThe distribution charge covers the local network that delivers power to your home. That means neighborhood poles, wires, transformers, an...
Dynamic Pricing
rates and rate designDynamic pricing is a family of rate plans. Prices change based on what is happening on the grid. They are not set far in advance. One exa...
Economic Development Rate
rates and rate designAn economic development rate is a discount on power for certain businesses. It goes to firms that bring new jobs or money to a community....
Energy Charge
rates and rate designThe energy charge is the part of your bill based on how many kilowatt-hours of electricity you use. Depending on your rate plan, the per-...
Flat Rate
rates and rate designOn a flat rate, you pay one set price for each kilowatt-hour of electricity, no matter the time of day or how much you use in a month. Yo...
Fuel Cost Adjustment
rates and rate designA fuel cost adjustment is a line on your bill. It rises or falls with the price of fuel used to make power, like natural gas. Base rates ...
General Service Rate
rates and rate designA general service rate is the standard plan for business customers. That includes stores, offices, and small factories, rather than house...
Generation (Supply) Charge
rates and rate designThe generation or supply charge pays for producing the power you use. It can also cover power bought on the wholesale market. It is separ...
Green Tariff
rates and rate designA green tariff is an optional program from your utility. It lets you buy power matched with renewable sources, such as wind or solar. The...
Hours-Use Rate
rates and rate designAn hours-use rate prices power in blocks. The blocks are based on how your total monthly use compares to your peak demand. Customers whos...
Inclining Block Rate
rates and rate designAn inclining block rate charges less for your first block of monthly power use. Blocks above that cost more per unit. The goal is to keep...
Interruptible Rate
rates and rate designAn interruptible rate gives a discount, usually to a large business. In return, the customer agrees the utility can cut off some or all o...
Irrigation Rate
rates and rate designAn irrigation rate is a plan made for farmers who use electric pumps to water crops. Pumping is seasonal, and it can often be shifted in ...
Lifeline (Low-Income) Rate
rates and rate designA lifeline or low-income rate offers discounted power service to households that qualify based on income. The discount might be a percent...
Load Factor
rates and rate designLoad factor measures how steady your power use is. It compares your average use over a period to your highest peak. Suppose you used powe...
Mid-Peak (Shoulder) Period
rates and rate designThe mid-peak or 'shoulder' period is a set of hours on some time-of-use plans where prices fall between the high on-peak price and the lo...
Minimum Bill
rates and rate designA minimum bill is the smallest amount you can be charged in a month, even if you use very little or no electricity. It covers the basic c...
Non-Bypassable Charge
rates and rate designA non-bypassable charge is a fee that all customers must pay. It applies no matter where you buy your power. It applies even if you make ...
Non-Coincident Peak Demand
rates and rate designNon-coincident peak demand is your own highest power use in a billing period. It counts no matter when it happens. It might occur at midn...
Off-Peak Period
rates and rate designThe off-peak period covers the hours when power costs the least on a time-based rate. These are usually overnight, and often weekends and...
On-Peak Period
rates and rate designThe on-peak period is the block of hours when electricity prices are highest on a time-based rate plan, because that's when demand on the...
Peak-Time Rebate (PTR)
rates and rate designA peak-time rebate program gives you a bill credit for cutting back. It applies during certain announced 'peak' hours, like very hot afte...
Power Cost Adjustment
rates and rate designA power cost adjustment is a charge or credit on your bill. It tracks what your utility pays for the power it supplies. That includes pow...
Power Factor Penalty
rates and rate designA power factor penalty is an extra charge, mostly for businesses with big motors and machines. Their gear may use power in a sloppy way, ...
Rate Class
rates and rate designA rate class is a group of customers billed under similar rules. They use power in similar ways. Examples include homes, small businesses...
Rate Design
rates and rate designRate design is how utilities and regulators decide the shape of power prices. They choose how much comes from fixed monthly fees. They ch...
Rate Rider
rates and rate designA rate rider is an add-on charge or credit. It sits on top of your basic rates and covers one specific cost. Examples include fuel price ...
Rate Schedule
rates and rate designA rate schedule is the official document that describes one specific rate plan: the prices, the fees, who can sign up, and the rules of s...
Real-Time Pricing (RTP)
rates and rate designReal-time pricing means the price of power changes hour by hour. It follows the wholesale market where utilities buy power. Prices are us...
Seasonal Rate
rates and rate designA seasonal rate means the price of power changes with the time of year. Prices are usually higher in the season with the most demand. Tha...
Standby Rate
rates and rate designA standby rate applies to customers who make most of their own power on site. They pay it so the utility stays ready. The utility supplie...
Street Lighting Rate
rates and rate designA street lighting rate is a special plan for streetlights and other outdoor lights. Cities, towns, or property owners usually pay it. The...
Subscription Rate
rates and rate designA subscription rate lets you pay a set amount for power each month. The amount is based on your typical use. Your bill stays steady inste...
Super Off-Peak Period
rates and rate designA super off-peak period is a window of hours with the lowest prices on some time-of-use plans, even lower than regular off-peak. It usual...
Tariff
rates and rate designA tariff is the full set of official documents that spell out a utility's prices, rate plans, fees, and rules of service. Regulators revi...
Tiered Rate
rates and rate designA tiered rate splits your monthly power use into blocks, called tiers. Each tier has its own price. For example, the first block has one ...
Time-of-Use (TOU) Rate
rates and rate designA time-of-use rate means the price you pay for electricity depends on the time of day. Power costs more during 'peak' hours, when lots of...
Time-Varying Rate
rates and rate designA time-varying rate is any plan where the price depends on when you use power. Time-of-use rates with set daily periods fit here. So do s...
Transmission Charge
rates and rate designThe transmission charge on your bill pays for high-voltage power lines. These lines and related gear carry power over long distances, fro...
Unbundled Rate
rates and rate designAn unbundled rate breaks your bill into separate charges for each part of the service. Generation means producing the power. Transmission...
Variable Peak Pricing
rates and rate designVariable peak pricing is a plan where the peak hours stay the same each day, but the price during those hours changes daily based on cond...
Volumetric Charge
rates and rate designA volumetric charge is the part of your bill that's based on the amount of energy you use, measured in kilowatt-hours. Unlike a fixed mon...