all usage, all hours · plus $7.96 per month · covers the full bill — everything the utility bills for energy - directly comparable to another bundled rate
effective2026-05-27
transcribed2026-08-31
today2026-09-01
Provenance
reconciled to a published total
sourceAppalachian Power Company, Va. S.C.C. Tariff No. 28, SCHEDULE R.S. (Residential Service-Traditional), Schedule Code 015; rider values from 'Select Schedule Charges and Associated Rider Charges', May 27, 2026
verifiedTranscribed from the utility's filed sheetAppalachian Power Company, Va. S.C.C. Tariff No. 28, SCHEDULE R.S. (Residential Service-Traditional), Schedule Code 015; rider values from 'Select Schedule Charges and Associated Rider Charges', May 27, 2026
verifiedEffective date on the sheet: 2026-05-27
verifiedReconciles to a total the utility published itselfthe Select Charges sheet's own Total column: the sixteen components sum to $0.16037/kWh exactly, and the base energy and basic service charge match Schedule R.S. in Tariff 28. Two APCo documents, agreeing.
verifiedSource document checked daily for changes
excludedTaxes, franchise fees and local surchargesJurisdiction-specific, so they are deliberately not encoded. A bill will be higher than this figure by that amount.
Energy rates
Period
Applies to
$/kWh
period 1
all usage
$0.16037
What this figure does and does not include
Transcription notes recorded when this tariff was encoded, including anything deliberately left out.
BUNDLED. Appalachian Power supplies generation as well as delivery in Virginia, so this one rate is the whole electricity bill. Virginia has a retail choice programme but it is closed to new residential customers: APCo's Tariff 2 covers only customers who contracted before February 1, 2019, and Tariff 3 is non-residential only. West Virginia has no residential choice at all.
ONE EIA COMPANY, TWO COMMISSIONS. EIA files Appalachian Power Co as a single operating company with 814,229 residential customers across Virginia and West Virginia. Coverage is counted per operating company, so encoding one state and not the other would have marked all of them covered - the PacifiCorp and OG&E overstatement. Both states are encoded, which is why that overstatement is not declared here: there is none.
THE TWO STATES SHARE A SCHEDULE NAME AND NOTHING ELSE. Both are called R.S., and there the resemblance stops: $7.96 basic against $14.02, flat energy against declining blocks, fourteen riders on a separate PDF against eight inside the tariff book. Reading either state by analogy with the other would have been wrong in every figure.
LOCAL TAXES ARE NOT INCLUDED. Both states add a municipal or political-subdivision surcharge that varies by locality - West Virginia's Local Tax Adjustment is a percentage listed per jurisdiction on Sheet Nos. 4-2 to 4-4. A locality cannot be inferred from a rate, so none is applied here, and APCo's own typical-bill figures exclude them too.
FLAT. The schedule prints a single energy line - 'All kWh' at 3.794c generation plus 3.828c distribution = 7.622c - with no blocks and no seasons. West Virginia, the same company, has three blocks and two season sets.
FOURTEEN RIDERS, SUMMING TO THE SHEET'S OWN TOTAL. The base 7.622c plus every rider on the Select Charges sheet gives 16.037c/kWh, which is the figure that sheet prints in its own Total column. Rider S.B.B.R. is a CREDIT of -1.489c and is carried with its sign; treating it as a charge would overstate the rate by 3c/kWh.
APCo's PUBLISHED TYPICAL BILL DOES NOT RECONCILE AGAINST THIS, AND IT IS THE TYPICAL BILL THAT IS WRONG. Its rates page quotes $169.85 at 1,000 kWh and $339.70 at 2,000 - exactly double. No tariff with a $7.96 monthly basic charge can double, because that charge is paid once either way, so the table is an average-rate extrapolation rather than a bill. The same website's West Virginia table is correctly non-linear and matches its tariff to the cent.
WHAT THAT LEAVES UNEXPLAINED, STATED RATHER THAN SMOOTHED. The 1,000 kWh figure implies 16.189c/kWh against the 16.037c the two filed documents agree on - a gap of 0.152c. The March 2026 Select sheet, which might have shown the table to be one revision stale, now returns 404.
TWO CANDIDATE EXPLANATIONS WERE TESTED AND BOTH FAIL. (1) Stale riders: the Standard tariff is dated July 13 2026, later than the May 27 Select sheet, so the riders might have moved between them. They did not - Rider F.F.R. is 3.133c in both, effective November 1 2025, and T-R.A.C. and the Securitized Asset Cost Rider match too. (2) Virginia's electric utility consumption tax, $0.001595/kWh on the first 2,500 kWh, which is the right order of magnitude for a $0.00152 gap and would mean the page's 'figures don't include local and state taxes' footnote is wrong. It overshoots: adding it gives $169.93 against the $169.85 published. Nearest miss on record, and still a miss.
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