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United Power, Inc rate plans

2 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.

Looking for when the expensive hours are? United Power’s peak hours, plan by plan →

What does United Power, Inc's residential rate cost?

United Power, Inc 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 $643 and a three-bedroom house with central air to about $1,044 — an effective 13.2¢ and 11.0¢ 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 $116 in July and $70 in February. Budget against the higher figure and the summer bill stops being a surprise.

Which plan would cost you least?

No bill upload, no sign-up. Tell us roughly what a month costs you and what runs on electricity — we price every plan against the same household and show you the gap.

Start from a household like yours

Then correct anything below that doesn’t match.

A typical monthly bill

$a month

A bill that size works out to about 1,160 kWh a month on Time of Day. If your bill shows a different number of kWh, switch to and use theirs — it is the more accurate of the two.

What else runs on electricity

Electric carcharged at home

Electric water heaterincluding heat pump

Central air conditioningsummer only

Electric heatheat pump or resistance

That adds up to 14,124 kWh a year. Compare it to the total on your bill and adjust until it’s close.

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back row — kWh usedfront row — $ cost

A weekday in January on Peak Time of Day (RDP1) — the back row is how much you use each hour, the front row is what that hour costs. Both are colored by the price at that hour. $3.66 a day, and 6pm alone accounts for $0.39 of it — the same power at 12am would cost $0.17. Rows are scaled separately; kWh and dollars are not the same units.

Same usage, different plan

$247a year

That is the gap between the cheapest plan you could be on — Peak Time of Day (RDP1) — and the priciest. Not by using less power. By being billed differently for the same power.

Plan	Per year	Vs best
Peak Time of Day (RDP1)Peak hits 2pm–10pm on weekdays, all year.	$1,432	—
Time of Day (RTD1)Peak hits 2pm–10pm every day, all year.	$1,679	+$247

An estimate, not a quote. Supply charges move month to month, and your real usage pattern is not exactly this one. What it does show reliably is the gap between plans — both are priced off the same assumptions.

Making sense of the bill

Every plan, in detail

Hour-by-hour schedules, tier thresholds, and the tariff each one comes from.