Residential Time-of-Use Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOU)

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.

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 $116 and February about $71. That $46 swing is part rate and part weather, and it is the reason a budget built on your spring bill will break in July.

Before a single kilowatt-hour moves, this plan charges $198 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 31% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 14%. 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 $116 in July and $71 in February — a $46 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.

Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 2nd cheapest of 6. The cheapest option, Residential Time-of-Day Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS-TOD), would run about $47 a year less.

Against Residential Service Ohio Power Rate Zone (RS), which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $0 less per year (0%). 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.