1EV Residential Service with Electric Vehicle Charging (Experimental)
When does peak hit on Virginia Electric & Power Co’s 1EV Residential Service with Electric Vehicle Charging? Peak hits 1pm–7pm every day, all year.
- peak19.89¢
- mid15.16¢
- off-peak9.70¢
What does 1EV Residential Service with Electric Vehicle Charging 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 | $73 | $878 | 18.0¢ / kWh |
| Family home Three or four people with central air conditioning | 9,453 kWh | $136 | $1,638 | 17.3¢ / kWh |
| Home with an EV Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight | 13,103 kWh | $172 | $2,069 | 15.8¢ / 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 | 19.89¢ | 1pm–7pm, April–September |
| mid | 18.39¢ | 6am–11am, 5pm–10pm, October–March |
| mid | 15.16¢ | 10am–1pm, 7pm–10pm, April–September |
| mid | 15.02¢ | 10pm–1am, 5am–6am, 11am–5pm, October–March |
| mid | 13.74¢ | 10pm–1am, 5am–10am, April–September |
| mid | 11.37¢ | 1am–5am, October–March |
| off-peak | 9.70¢ | 1am–5am, April–September |
Plus a fixed charge of $7.58 per month.
Should you be on 1EV Residential Service with Electric Vehicle Charging?
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 19.9¢ a kWh; at the best hour, 9.7¢ — 2.1× 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 1pm to 1am is about $37 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 $91 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 10% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 4%. 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 $188 in July and $107 in February — a $81 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 Virginia Electric & Power’s other plans
Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 5th cheapest of 9. The cheapest option, 1W Residential Service (Time Controlled Storage Water Heating), would run about $470 a year less.
Against Residential Schedule 1, which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $4 more 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.
Other Virginia Electric & Power plans
- 1S Residential Service (Demand Time-of-Use)demand
- 1W Residential Service (Time Controlled Storage Water Heating)flat
- Basic Residential Rate Schedule 1flat
- Energy TOU Residential Service Schedule 1TTOU
- EV Residential Electric Vehicle Charging (Experimental)TOU
- Residential Energy TOU Schedule 1TTOU
- Residential Off-Peak PlanTOU
- Residential Schedule 1flat
- Residential Schedule 1G (Experimental Service)TOU
- TOU Residential Service Schedule 1Pdemand
Who can be on Virginia Electric & Power’s 1EV Residential Service with Electric Vehicle Charging (Experimental)?
Eligibility is not our judgement — it is written into the tariff Virginia Electric & Power filed. This is what that document says:
This schedule is applicable only where the Customer 1) owns or leases a licensed electric motor vehicle, subject to state inspection, which requires periodic battery charging, and 2) meets the applicability requirements of the following paragraphs. During the experimental period, should the Customer discontinue operating an electric motor vehicle, the Customer may continue to be served under this schedule for the duration of the experimental period.
Shortened — the clause runs longer in the filing. Quoted from the filed tariff. Your utility decides eligibility, not us; check with them before you switch.
If this is new to you
- 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.
- Why is my electric bill so high in summer?
Usually three causes at once, and only one of them is your air conditioner.
Where this comes from
- Effective
- 2026-01-01
the date this tariff took effect
- Covers
- delivery + supply
Distribution + Generation + Transmission
- Enrollment
- open to new customers