How to Decrease Your Summer Electric Bills

Each summer, as temperatures increase and air-conditioning is turned on, the average residential electric bill increases accordingly. There are ways to offset those increased electric bills!

Generally, every electric utility company has many residential rates available to its customers. However, it is left up to the customer to find out about these rates and request the rate change for their own account. The best resource is the utility company's website!

Generally, these utility company websites provide all of the residential rates available, with detailed descriptions of each of these rates. If you are still not sure which rate would be best for your home, you can contact the customer service department and get the information that you need to make an informed choice!

There are air-conditioning cycling rates, medical assistance rates, seasonal rates, time-of-use rates, low-income rates, solar rates, and many more to choose from. Don't feel like a victim of high summer electric bills - use this information to make an informed decision about which electric rate is right for you!

Here is a sample of residential rates available to Southern California Edison customers: 

• Schedule D: Domestic Service
• Schedule D-CARE: California Alternate Rates for Energy, Domestic Service
• Schedule D-FERA: Family Electric Rate Assistance
• Schedule D-SDP: Domestic Summer Discount Plan
• Schedule DE: Domestic Service to Utility Employees
• Schedule DM: Multifamily Accommodation - Residential Hotel - Qualifying RV Park
• Schedule DMS-1: Domestic Service, Multifamily Accommodation, Submetered
• Schedule DMS-2: Domestic Service, Mobilehome Park Multifamily Accommodation, Submetered
• Schedule DMS-3: Domestic Service, Qualifying RV Park Accommodtion, Submetered
• Schedule DS: Domestic Seasonal
• Schedule ESC-OO: Edison SmartConnect Opt-Out
• Schedule MASH-VNM: Multifamily Affordable Solar Housing Virtual Net Metering 
• Schedule MB-E: Medical Baseline - Exemption
• Schedule TOU-D-1: Time-of-Use Domestic
• Schedule TOU-D-2: Time-of-Use Domestic
• Schedule TOU-D-T: Time of Use Tiered Domestic
• Schedule TOU-D-TEV: Time-of-Use Domestic Tiered Electric Vehicle Charging
• Schedule TOU-EV-1: Domestic Time-of-Use, Electric Vehicle Charging

https://www.sce.com/wps/portal/home/regulatory/tariff-books/rates-pricing-choices/residential-rates
 

As one of the original founders of Pacific Utility Audit, Inc., her intent was to offer a utility auditing service in order to help other property managers who were facing the same type of problems that she had faced as a property manager in dealing with utility budgets and concerns. Her educational background includes a B.S. Degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University, and an M.B.A. Degree in International Business, also from Pepperdine University. She currently works and writes for Pacific Utility Audit, Inc., and also does public speaking on occasion.

 

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