Guides
Each guide is an analysis of this site’s own priced data. Every figure in one is computed from published tariffs by the same rate engine as the state, utility and appliance pages, and is dated with the data it came from.
Delivery and supply: the two prices inside one electricity rate
Some utilities publish the same schedule twice, once without the electricity itself. Priced side by side, the gap shows what the rest of the bill costs.
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What published electricity plans cost, state by state
Every priced residential plan from the utilities indexed in each state, compared at three levels of use — and why a kilowatt-hour usually costs less the more of them you buy.
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What electric heating adds to a bill, state by state
Survey consumption for homes heated mainly by electricity, priced as the difference it makes to a real bill on every published plan — and where a heating schedule changes the answer.
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What a bill costs before a single kilowatt-hour
Most published plans bill a fixed amount every month, whatever the meter says. Priced across every plan, it is why a light user pays more per kilowatt-hour than a heavy one on the same plan.
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The price that changes with the month
Many plans charge one price in summer and another in winter, and a household cannot shift a load between them. Read from the published schedules: which months are the dear ones, how wide the gap is, and what the same consumption costs either side of it.
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The price that changes once the meter passes a line
Most large utilities bill the first block of a month at one price and the rest at another. Read from the published bands: how big the step is, where it falls, and whether it makes a heavy household pay more per kilowatt-hour than a light one.
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What a plan charges by the hour, and what moving a kilowatt-hour is worth
Some plans price the afternoon and the night differently. Read from the published schedules: the gap between the two prices, how many hours a day the dearer one covers, and where the weekend sits.
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