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Evergy Kansas Central, Inc rate plans
3 residential plans are currently open to new customers that we can price side by side. Some charge different prices depending on the hour — which is where most of the savings hide.
Looking for when the expensive hours are? Evergy Kansas Central’s peak hours, plan by plan →
What does Evergy Kansas Central cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,320 a year on the cheapest of the 3 plans we can price here — RTOU-2 (Residential Time of Use Two-Period) — and $1,602 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $746 | RTOU-2 (Residential Time of Use Two-Period) | $886 |
| 1,000 kWh | $1,320 | RTOU-2 (Residential Time of Use Two-Period) | $1,602 |
| 2,000 kWh | $2,469 | RTOU-2 (Residential Time of Use Two-Period) | $3,032 |
The same plan is cheapest at every level of use here, so the answer does not turn on how much you use. Estimates from the filed tariff, priced hour by hour on a household with central air — not a quote.
How much does the plan you pick actually matter here?
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through every plan Evergy Kansas Central, Inc files, and the bill lands anywhere between $1,076 and $1,298 a year. That $222 spread is not a difference in electricity — it is the same kilowatt-hours, from the same wires, priced under different rules. Nobody sends you a letter when you are on the wrong side of it.
The plan most households land on by default, RS (Residential Standard Service), comes to about $1,231. The cheapest option here, RTOU-2 (Residential Time of Use Two-Period), comes to $1,076 — a gap of about $155 a year for a household that never changed a single habit. Whether you can actually capture that depends on when you use power, which is what the calculator below is for.
2 of these 3 plans price by the hour. Those are the ones where moving laundry, dishes, or car charging into the cheap window changes the bill; on the rest, the clock is irrelevant and only the total matters. Which camp you belong in is the first question worth settling, because it decides whether shifting your day is worth anything at all.
How Evergy Kansas Central compares across Kansas
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 2 Kansas utilities we cover, and Evergy Kansas Central is the dearest of the lot at about $1,231 a year; the state median is $1,173. The cheapest, Evergy Metro, charges $1,114 for identical use — a gap set by the address, not by anything either household did.
The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $715 here against a state median of $681, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $1,639 against $1,555. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 13.0¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Inside Evergy Kansas Central itself, the gap between its cheapest and dearest plan for that house is $222 a year — more than the $118 between Kansas's cheapest and dearest utilities. Which plan you are on matters more here than which company sends the bill.
Every Kansas utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
Which plan would cost you least?
No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what a month costs you and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.
That adds up to 13,698 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.
Same usage, different plan
$695a year
That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — REV (Residential Electric Vehicle) — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.
| Plan | Per year | Vs best |
|---|---|---|
| REV (Residential Electric Vehicle)One rate, every hour of the year. | $1,074 | — |
| RD (Residential Demand Service)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September. | $1,374 | +$299 |
| RTOU-2 (Residential Time of Use Two-Period)Peak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year. | $1,409 | +$335 |
| RS (Residential Standard Service)The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak October–May. | $1,680 | +$606 |
| TOU (Time of Use)Peak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year. | $1,770 | +$695 |
An estimate, not a quote. Supply charges move month to month, and your real usage pattern is not exactly this one. What it does show reliably is the gap between plans — both are priced off the same assumptions.
Before you switch anything
- What is a time-of-use electricity rate?
The same kilowatt-hour, priced differently depending on when you use it.
- Should you switch to a time-of-use electricity plan?
A wide peak-to-off-peak gap is a lever, not a saving. Levers need something to move.
- How to compare electricity plans without getting it wrong
Six things that break a comparison, and the order to check them in.
Every plan, in detail
Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.
- RD (Residential Demand Service)demand charge
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak June–September.
6.5–13.3¢ - REV (Residential Electric Vehicle)demand charge
One rate, every hour of the year.
6.6¢ - RS (Residential Standard Service)flat
The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak October–May.
9.7–12.0¢ - RTOU-2 (Residential Time of Use Two-Period)time-of-use
Peak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year.
7.1–27.1¢ - TOU (Time of Use)time-of-use
Peak hits 4pm–8pm every day, all year.
5.9–26.7¢