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
effective2026-11-01
transcribed2026-11-03
today2026-11-13
Monthly bill
Usage
$ per month
500 kWh
$88.66
1,000 kWh
$169.35
2,000 kWh
$330.74
Computed from the rates on this page at 30.4 days a month. The same arithmetic is checked against the utility's own published typical bill on every build.
Before taxes, franchise fees and any local surcharge.
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', November 1, 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', November 1, 2026
verifiedEffective date on the sheet: 2026-11-01
verifiedReconciles to a total the utility published itselfthree APCo documents, agreeing: the November 1 Select Charges sheet's own Total column (sixteen components sum to $0.16139/kWh exactly); Tariff 28, whose Schedule R.S. carries the base energy and basic charge and whose S
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
all hours, all year
all usage
$0.16139
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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 16.139c/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.
RIDER B.C.-RAC ROSE ON 24 SEPTEMBER 2026, 0.059c to 0.211c/kWh (Broadband Capacity, Sheet NBP-2), taking the all-in rate from 16.037c to 16.189c. No other component moved between the May 27 and September 24 Select Charges sheets.
RIDER P.I.P.P. FELL ON 1 NOVEMBER 2026, 0.132c to 0.082c/kWh (Universal Service Fee, Sheet NBP-1), taking the all-in rate from 16.189c to 16.139c, -$0.50 on 1,000 kWh. It is the only component that moved between the September 24 and November 1 sheets.
APCo's PUBLISHED TYPICAL BILL RECONCILES AT 1,000 kWh: $7.96 + 1,000 x 16.139c = $169.35, to the cent. Its 2,000 kWh row, $338.70, is exactly twice the 1,000 kWh bill with the basic charge counted twice; the tariff gives $330.74, and that row is not used.
THE TYPICAL BILL WAS DATED AHEAD OF THE TARIFF, AND WAS READ AS WRONG FOR A MONTH. From 31 August this encoding carried the May rate, 16.037c, and recorded the table's implied 16.189c as an unexplained 0.152c gap - testing stale riders and Virginia's consumption tax as causes, rejecting both, and concluding the table was wrong. The table was captioned 'Effective: September 24, 2026' the whole time. The gap was this rider, published early.
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