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Tariff data · 2026-08-27
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Residential Time of Day Rate (Full Service) - D1.11 (No New Customers)

When does peak hit on DTE Electric Company’s Residential Time of Day Rate? Peak hits 3pm–7pm on weekdays, all year.

  • peak27.24¢
  • mid23.15¢
  • off-peak21.54¢
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Every hour of the year at this rate, drawn to scale — 24 hours across, 12 months deep, height is ¢/kWh. The tallest bar is 27.2¢ (Jun, 3pm), the shortest is 21.5¢ (Jan, midnight) — 1.3× apart.
Weekdays
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Weekends
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Weekends are off-peak all day — the cheapest time to run anything you can schedule.

What does Residential Time of Day Rate cost a year?

HouseholdUsesA monthPer yearWorks out to
Apartment

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

4,866 kWh$98$1,17424.1¢ / kWh
Family home

Three or four people with central air conditioning

9,453 kWh$183$2,19723.2¢ / kWh
Home with an EV

Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight

13,103 kWh$249$2,98322.8¢ / 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
peak27.24¢3pm–7pm, June–September
mid23.15¢3pm–7pm, October–May
off-peak21.54¢7pm–3pm, midnight–midnight, June–September; midnight–midnight, October
off-peak21.54¢7pm–3pm, midnight–midnight, November–May; 7pm–3pm, October

Plus a fixed charge of $8.5 per month.

Should you be on Residential Time of Day Rate?

This is a time-of-use plan, which means the clock decides your bill as much as the meter does. At the worst hour you pay 27.2¢ a kWh; at the best hour, 21.5¢ — 1.3× apart for identical electricity.

That gap is worth real money only if you can move load into it. Every kilowatt-hour a day you shift from 3pm to midnight is about $21 a year. A dishwasher run is roughly 1.5 kWh; an EV commute charge is 8 to 12. If your day is fixed — you are home in the evening and the air conditioner runs when it runs — a plan like this costs you more, not less.

Before a single kilowatt-hour moves, this plan charges $102 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 9% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 3%. 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 $258 in July and $139 in February — a $119 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.

How it compares to DTE Electric’s other plans

Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 6th cheapest of 7. The cheapest option, Residential Time of Day (Retail Service) - D1.2, would run about $649 a year less.

Against Residential Service Rate - (Full Service) - D1, which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $75 less per year (3%). We infer the default from the tariff structure rather than a flag in the data, so confirm it against your own bill before you switch.

Other DTE Electric plans

Who can be on DTE Electric’s Residential Time of Day Rate (Full Service) - D1.11 (No New Customers)?

Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff DTE Electric filed. This is what that document says:

Available on an optional basis to customers who desire time of day service for their residential dwelling. Customers who select this rate must qualify for the Residential Service Rate D1. This rate is available to no more than 20,000 customers per year. Monthly charge includes LIEAF factor

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
2026-04-01

the date this tariff took effect

Covers
delivery + supply

Generation + Delivery

Enrollment
open to new customers

Tariff document: https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/mpsc/consumer/rate-books/electric/dte/dtee1cur.pdf?rev=e0168ab41b8245bba5f3ca7631c29614