Schedule TOU-OA-14 Time of Use - Overnight Advantage
When does peak hit on Georgia Power Co’s Schedule TOU-OA-14 Time of Use - Overnight Advantage? Peak hits 2pm–7pm every day, all year.
- peak40.82¢
- mid15.89¢
- off-peak6.74¢
What does Schedule TOU-OA-14 Time of Use - Overnight Advantage cost a year?
| Household | Uses | A month | Per year | Works out to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment One or two people, no central air, no electric heat | 4,866 kWh | $77 | $928 | 19.1¢ / kWh |
| Family home Three or four people with central air conditioning | 9,453 kWh | $146 | $1,747 | 18.5¢ / kWh |
| Home with an EV Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight | 13,103 kWh | $166 | $1,993 | 15.2¢ / 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
| Period | Rate | Applies when |
|---|---|---|
| peak | 40.82¢ | 2pm–7pm, June–September |
| mid | 15.89¢ | 7am–11pm, October–May; 7am–2pm, 7pm–11pm, 7am–11pm, June–September |
| off-peak | 6.74¢ | 11pm–7am |
Plus a fixed charge of $0.4603 per day — so longer months cost more before you use a single kWh.
Should you be on Schedule TOU-OA-14 Time of Use - Overnight Advantage?
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 40.8¢ a kWh; at the best hour, 6.7¢ — 6.1× 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 2pm to midnight is about $124 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 $168 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 18% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 8%. 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 $241 in July and $97 in February — a $144 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 Georgia Power’s other plans
Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 3rd cheapest of 3. The cheapest option, SCHEDULE TOU-REO-18 TIME OF USE RESIDENTIAL ENERGY ONLY, would run about $252 a year less.
Against SCHEDULE R-30 RESIDENTIAL SERVICE, which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $169 more per year (11%). 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 Georgia Power plans
Who can be on Georgia Power’s Schedule TOU-OA-14 Time of Use - Overnight Advantage?
Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff Georgia Power filed. This is what that document says:
For all domestic uses of a Residential Customer in a separately metered dwelling unit. A Residential Customer hereunder is defined in the Company's Rules and Regulations for Electric Service.
Quoted from the filed tariff. Your utility decides eligibility, not us; check with them before you switch.
If this is new to you
- When is electricity cheapest? Off-peak hours explained
Overnight, usually. All weekend, often. The exact hours are in your tariff, not in a rule of thumb.
- 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.
- When should you charge an electric car at home?
The single biggest load most homes can move, and the easiest to automate.
- Why is my electric bill so high in summer?
Usually three causes at once, and only one of them is your air conditioner.
Where this comes from
- Effective
- 2025-01-01
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.georgiapower.com/content/dam/georgia-power/pdfs/residential-pdfs/tariffs/2025/tou-oa-14.pdf