Residential - Nighttime EV Charging Service
When does peak hit on Village of Waunakee - (WI)’s Residential - Nighttime EV Charging Service? Peak hits 3pm–7pm every day, all year.
- peak23.77¢
- mid17.95¢
- off-peak13.28¢
What does Residential - Nighttime EV Charging Service cost a year?
| Household | Uses | A month | Per year | Works out to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment One or two people, no central air, no electric heat | 4,866 kWh | $88 | $1,057 | 21.7¢ / kWh |
| Family home Three or four people with central air conditioning | 9,453 kWh | $161 | $1,937 | 20.5¢ / kWh |
| Home with an EV Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight | 13,103 kWh | $204 | $2,450 | 18.7¢ / 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
| Period | Rate | Applies when |
|---|---|---|
| peak | 23.77¢ | 3pm–7pm |
| mid | 17.95¢ | 5am–3pm, 7pm–midnight |
| off-peak | 13.28¢ | midnight–5am |
Plus a fixed charge of $11.66 per month.
Should you be on Residential - Nighttime EV Charging Service?
This is a time-of-use plan, which means the clock decides your bill as much as the meter does. At the worst hour you pay 23.8¢ a kWh; at the best hour, 13.3¢ — 1.8× apart for identical electricity.
That gap is worth real money only if you can move load into it. Every kilowatt-hour a day you shift from 3pm to midnight is about $38 a year. A dishwasher run is roughly 1.5 kWh; an EV commute charge is 8 to 12. If your day is fixed — you are home in the evening and the air conditioner runs when it runs — a plan like this costs you more, not less.
Before a single kilowatt-hour moves, this plan charges $140 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 13% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 6%. 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 $223 in July and $124 in February — a $99 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.
How it compares to Village of Waunakee’s other plans
Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 2nd cheapest of 2. The cheapest option, Residential, would run about $100 a year less.
Against Residential, which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $100 more per year (5%). 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.
Other Village of Waunakee plans
Who can be on Village of Waunakee’s Residential - Nighttime EV Charging Service?
Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff Village of Waunakee filed. This is what that document says:
All energy sales are subject to a positive or negative power cost adjustment charge equivalent to the amount of which the current cost of power (per kWh of sales) is greater or lesser than the base cost of power purchased and produced (per kWh sales).
Quoted from the filed tariff. Your utility decides eligibility, not us; check with them before you switch.
If this is new to you
- How to read your electric bill
Four kinds of charge, only two of which you can do anything about.
- When is electricity cheapest? Off-peak hours explained
Overnight, usually. All weekend, often. The exact hours are in your tariff, not in a rule of thumb.
- Should you switch to a time-of-use electricity plan?
A wide peak-to-off-peak gap is a lever, not a saving. Levers need something to move.
- When should you charge an electric car at home?
The single biggest load most homes can move, and the easiest to automate.
Where this comes from
- Effective
- 2025-01-01
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: https://www.waunakeeutilities.com/sites/waunakeeutilities.com/files/WaunakeeUtilities_RatesBrochure_2025%20Refuse%20Update.pdf