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Residential Generator Net Metering Rider - Single Phase

Does the hour matter on Residential Generator Net Metering Rider - Single Phase? No — one rate, every hour of the year.

  • off-peak10.51¢

There is no peak and no off-peak here: the price per kilowatt-hour at 3am is the same as at 6pm, on a Sunday as on a Tuesday, in July as in January, though the price does step up once a month’s use passes the tier threshold shown below. Moving laundry or car charging to another time of day will not change this bill by a cent. What does change it is how much you use, and the fixed charge below, which you pay whether you use anything or not.

What does Residential Generator Net Metering Rider - Single Phase cost a year?

This plan is for homes that generate their own power — the tariff is named “Net Meter”. It is a real, currently open tariff, but the figures below are wrong for it: our three modelled households have no panels, so they earn none of the export credits that make this rate worth choosing and pay full price for every kilowatt-hour instead. Read the numbers as an upper bound, not an estimate, and see the tariff document for the export terms. We leave it out of the plan-to-plan comparisons.
HouseholdUsesA monthPer yearWorks out to
Apartment

One or two people, no central air, no electric heat

4,866 kWh$92$1,10322.7¢ / kWh
Family home

Three or four people with central air conditioning

9,453 kWh$132$1,58816.8¢ / kWh
Home with an EV

Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight

13,103 kWh$166$1,99015.2¢ / 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

PeriodRateApplies when
off-peak10.51¢ up to 1000 kWh12.04¢midnight–midnight

Plus a fixed charge of $49.3 per month.

Should you be on Residential Generator Net Metering Rider - Single Phase?

One rate, every hour of the year. That makes this plan predictable and nothing else: there is no cheap window to move laundry or car charging into, and no penalty for running the oven at six in the evening. Predictability is worth something if your schedule is not yours to control — but if it is, a flat rate is the one structure that guarantees you cannot benefit from it.

There is a usage cliff to watch. The first 1000 kWh each month are billed at 10.5¢; past that line the rate steps up to 12.0¢ — 15% 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.

Before a single kilowatt-hour moves, this plan charges $592 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 54% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 30%. 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 $166 in July and $112 in February — a $54 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.

Other Tri-County Elec Member Corp (GA) plans

Who can be on Tri-County Elec Member Corp (GA)’s Residential Generator Net Metering Rider - Single Phase?

Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff Tri-County Elec Member Corp (GA) filed. This is what that document says:

Available to customers on a residential rate with renewable generation. Generator capacity is limited to the lesser of the estimated 15-minute demand, the contract demand, or 25 kW. to receive service under other residential rate schedules offered by the Cooperative.

Quoted from the filed tariff. Your utility decides eligibility, not us; check with them before you switch.

If this is new to you

Where this comes from

Effective
2025-03-01

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: http://www.tri-countyemc.com/skins/userfiles/file/Rate%20Schedule%20Basic%20R-1%202014.pdf