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Northern States Power Co rate plans
1 residential plans are currently open to new customers. None of them price by hour, so shifting when you use power won’t change your bill here.
What does Northern States Power cost at a normal month’s usage?
A household using 1,000 kWh a month pays about $1,882 a year on the cheapest of the 1 plans we can price here — Rg-1 Residential Service Single Phase — and $1,882 on the priciest. Same house, same wires.
| A month of | Cheapest, a year | On which plan | Priciest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 kWh | $1,031 | Rg-1 Residential Service Single Phase | $1,031 |
| 1,000 kWh | $1,882 | Rg-1 Residential Service Single Phase | $1,882 |
| 2,000 kWh | $3,584 | Rg-1 Residential Service Single Phase | $3,584 |
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.
What does Northern States Power Co's residential rate cost?
Northern States Power Co files a single residential tariff, so there is no plan to choose between — everyone served here is on the same terms. That makes this page short on comparison and long on one question instead: what does that tariff actually do to a bill?
Priced hour by hour across a full year, a small apartment on this tariff comes to about $865 and a three-bedroom house with central air to about $1,520 — an effective 17.8¢ and 16.1¢ per kilowatt-hour once the fixed charge is spread across everything used.
With one plan and no hourly pricing, the only lever left is using less. Moving laundry or car charging to the middle of the night changes nothing here, which is worth knowing before you rearrange your evenings for no reason.
Expect the bill to swing with the weather rather than with anything you decide: the same house costs around $178 in July and $97 in February. Budget against the higher figure and the summer bill stops being a surprise.
How Northern States Power compares across Wisconsin
Run the same three-bedroom house with central air through its default plan at each of the 6 Wisconsin utilities we cover, and Northern States Power comes in 2nd cheapest at about $1,520 a year; the state median is $1,650. The range runs from $1,209 at Superior Water and Light to $2,032 at Wisconsin Electric Power, and since the utility is set by the address, the part of that gap you can act on is the plan, not the company.
The other two households tell the same story in different sizes: a small apartment pays about $865 here against a state median of $945, and the same house with an electric car charging overnight about $2,034 against $2,211. Effective rate, fixed charge included, is 16.1¢ per kilowatt-hour for the family home.
Every Wisconsin utility we cover, priced for the same three households →
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