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Tariff data · 2026-08-27
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Schedule RS - Residential

Does the hour matter on Schedule RS - Residential? No — one rate, every hour of the year.

  • off-peak10.91¢

There is no peak and no off-peak here: the price per kilowatt-hour at 3am is the same as at 6pm, on a Sunday as on a Tuesday, in July as in January, though the price does step up once a month’s use passes the tier threshold shown below. Moving laundry or car charging to another time of day will not change this bill by a cent. What does change it is how much you use, and the fixed charge below, which you pay whether you use anything or not.

What does Schedule RS - Residential cost a year?

HouseholdUsesA monthPer yearWorks out to
Apartment

One or two people, no central air, no electric heat

4,866 kWh$61$73815.2¢ / kWh
Family home

Three or four people with central air conditioning

9,453 kWh$103$1,23913.1¢ / kWh
Home with an EV

Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight

13,103 kWh$136$1,63712.5¢ / kWh

Estimates, not quotes. We run three made-up but realistic households through this tariff hour by hour for a full year — including the way air conditioning loads the afternoon and an EV loads the small hours. Your own bill depends on when you actually use electricity, which is exactly the thing a per-kWh number hides.

What you actually pay

PeriodRateApplies when
off-peak10.91¢ up to 1400 kWh11.42¢midnight–midnight

Plus a fixed charge of $17.23 per month.

Should you be on Schedule RS - Residential?

One rate, every hour of the year. That makes this plan predictable and nothing else: there is no cheap window to move laundry or car charging into, and no penalty for running the oven at six in the evening. Predictability is worth something if your schedule is not yours to control — but if it is, a flat rate is the one structure that guarantees you cannot benefit from it.

There is a usage cliff to watch. The first 1400 kWh each month are billed at 10.9¢; past that line the rate steps up to 11.4¢ — 5% more for every unit after. The last kilowatt-hour of a heavy month is the expensive one, which is why cutting a little off a big month saves more than cutting the same amount off a small one.

Before a single kilowatt-hour moves, this plan charges $207 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 28% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 13%. Fixed charges are invisible in a cents-per-kWh comparison and they punish small users hardest — if you use very little electricity, the headline rate is the least important number on this page.

Expect the bill to move with the calendar. The same family home costs about $137 in July and $82 in February — a $55 spread driven by heating and cooling far more than by anything you chose. Budget against the July figure, not the average, and a summer bill stops being a surprise.

Who can be on City of Huntsville’s Schedule RS - Residential?

Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff City of Huntsville filed. This is what that document says:

Applicability: Single Family Dwellings. Alternating current, single-phase, 60 hertz. Power shall be delivered at a service voltage available in the vicinity or agreed to by Distributor. Multi-phase service shall be supplied in accordance with Distributor's standard policy.

Quoted from the filed tariff. Your utility decides eligibility, not us; check with them before you switch.

If this is new to you

Where this comes from

Effective
2026-02-01

the date this tariff took effect

Covers
delivery + supply

the ZIP-code service map lists this territory as bundled, so the utility sells delivery and supply together

Enrollment
open to new customers

Tariff document: https://www.hsvutil.org/residential_services/residential_rates.php