Residential Service (R1A): Zone 2
When does peak hit on Los Angeles Department of Water & Power’s Residential Service? The hour never matters here — only the season. Rates peak October–May.
- off-peak24.17¢
Weekends are off-peak all day — the cheapest time to run anything you can schedule.
What does Residential Service 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 | $98 | $1,176 | 24.2¢ / kWh |
| Family home Three or four people with central air conditioning | 9,453 kWh | $193 | $2,316 | 24.5¢ / kWh |
| Home with an EV Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight | 13,103 kWh | $268 | $3,216 | 24.5¢ / 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
| Period | Rate | Applies when |
|---|---|---|
| off-peak | 24.17¢ up to 500 kWh24.17¢ up to 1500 kWh24.17¢ | midnight–midnight, October–May |
| off-peak | 24.17¢ up to 500 kWh25.67¢ up to 1500 kWh29.15¢ | midnight–midnight, June–September |
Should you be on Residential Service?
The hour of day does not change what you pay here — the month does. Running the same house through the full year, July costs about $275 and February about $144. That $130 swing is part rate and part weather, and it is the reason a budget built on your spring bill will break in July.
There is a usage cliff to watch. The first 1500 kWh each month are billed at 25.7¢; past that line the rate steps up to 29.2¢ — 14% 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.
How it compares to Los Angeles Department of Water & Power’s other plans
Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 1st cheapest of 3 — nothing else here beats it for that household.
Against Residential Service (R1A): Zone 1, which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $12 less per year (1%). 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 Los Angeles Department of Water & Power plans
Who can be on Los Angeles Department of Water & Power’s Residential Service (R1A): Zone 2?
Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff Los Angeles Department of Water & Power filed. This is what that document says:
Applicable to service to single-family, single-family with guest house, individually metered accommodations, as well as to separately metered common areas of condominiums and cooperatives devoted primarily to residential uses.
Quoted from the filed tariff. Your utility decides eligibility, not us; check with them before you switch.
If this is new to you
- Tiered billing for electricity: why the last kWh costs more
A cheap allowance, then a cliff. Where the cliff sits is the whole game.
- 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.
- Why is my electric bill so high in summer?
Usually three causes at once, and only one of them is your air conditioner.
- Why is my electric bill so high? Seven causes, in the order to check them
Seven causes, ranked by how often they are the answer. Only two are about using more.
Where this comes from
- Effective
- 2026-04-01
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.ladwp.com/sites/default/files/documents/LADWP_Electric_Rates.pdf