Skip to content
Tariff data · 2026-08-27
← Union Electric Co - (MO) · MO

1(M) Residential Ultimate Saver Service

When does peak hit on Union Electric Co - (MO)’s 1? Peak hits 3pm–7pm every day, all year.

  • peak30.79¢
  • mid5.86¢
  • off-peak5.27¢
drag to turn
Every hour of the year at this rate, drawn to scale — 24 hours across, 12 months deep, height is ¢/kWh. The tallest bar is 30.8¢ (Jun, 3pm), the shortest is 5.3¢ (Jan, midnight) — 5.8× apart.
Weekdays
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Weekends
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

What does 1 cost a year?

HouseholdUsesA monthPer yearWorks out to
Apartment

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

4,866 kWh$47$56111.5¢ / kWh
Family home

Three or four people with central air conditioning

9,453 kWh$88$1,05811.2¢ / kWh
Home with an EV

Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight

13,103 kWh$105$1,2579.6¢ / 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
peak30.79¢3pm–7pm, June–September
mid17.10¢6am–8am, 6pm–8pm, October–May
mid5.86¢7pm–3pm, June–September
off-peak5.27¢8pm–6am, 8am–6pm, October–May

Plus a fixed charge of $9 per month.

This plan also bills a demand charge based on your highest single hour of usage. We don’t price that yet, so treat any total here as incomplete.

Should you be on 1?

This plan bills a demand charge on top of the per-kWh rates: a fee tied to your single highest hour of the month. Two homes using the same total electricity can pay very different amounts if one of them runs the dryer, the oven, and the car charger at the same moment. We do not price demand charges yet, so treat every dollar figure on this page as a floor, not a total.

Before a single kilowatt-hour moves, this plan charges $108 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 19% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 9%. 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 $150 in July and $57 in February — a $93 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 Union Electric Co plans

Who can be on Union Electric Co’s 1(M) Residential Ultimate Saver Service?

Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff Union Electric Co filed. This is what that document says:

This optional rate is available as of January 1, 2021 at customer's election to all residential customers being served through an advanced meter and supplied by the Company to individually metered residences and apartments consisting of one or more rooms for the use of one or more persons as a housekeeping unit with space for eating, living and sleeping, and permanent provisions for cooking and sanitation.

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
2024-09-30

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.ameren.com/-/media/rates/files/missouri/uecsheet54rate1mres.ashx