by season and by usage tier · plus $14.02 per month · covers the full bill — everything the utility bills for energy - directly comparable to another bundled rate
effective2026-09-01
transcribed2026-09-12
today2026-11-13
Monthly bill
Usage
January, February and December
March to November
500 kWh
$102.33
$102.33
1,000 kWh
$183.06
$183.06
2,000 kWh
$322.21
$344.53
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, P.S.C. W.Va. Tariff No. 16, SCHEDULE R.S. (Residential Service), First Revision of Corrected Original Sheet No. 5-1; rider values from Rider E.N.E.C. on First Revision of Original Sheet No. 34 and the Exhibit of Standard Schedule Rates on Third Revision of Corrected Original Sheet No. 38, which agree
docketBase rates: Case No. NOIR APCO and WHEELING 26A, Order dated June 18, 2026, effective for service rendered on or after July 1, 2026. Rider E.N.E.C.: Case No. 26-0469-E-ENEC, Order dated August 28, 2026, effective for bills rendered on or after September 1, 2026 - a separate order, which is why the two vintages differ.
effective2026-09-01
retrieved2026-09-12
regulatorPublic Service Commission of West Virginia
verifiedTranscribed from the utility's filed sheetAppalachian Power Company, P.S.C. W.Va. Tariff No. 16, SCHEDULE R.S. (Residential Service), First Revision of Corrected Original Sheet No. 5-1; rider values from Rider E.N.E.C. on First Revision of Original Sheet No. 34 and the Exhibit of Standard Schedule Rates on Third Revision of Corrected Original Sheet No. 38, which agree
verifiedEffective date on the sheet: 2026-09-01
verifiedReconciles to a total the utility published itselfTWO INDEPENDENT TARGETS. Sheet 38's own Total column for the September revision - 0.176625, 0.161465 and 0.127125 - which this encoding's components reproduce to six places on all three rows. And APCo's published West Vi
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
January, February and December — tier 1
up to 500 kWh
$0.17662
January, February and December — tier 2
up to 1,350 kWh
$0.16146
January, February and December — tier 3
above 1,350 kWh
$0.12712
March to November — tier 1
up to 500 kWh
$0.17662
March to November — tier 2
above 500 kWh
$0.16146
Other plans at this utility
Encoded from the same tariff book, on the same day. Which one
you are on is on your bill; which one you are eligible for is set by the
utility, not by this page.
Transcription notes recorded when this tariff was encoded, including anything deliberately left out.
BUNDLED. Appalachian Power supplies generation as well as delivery in West 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.
DECLINING BLOCKS, AND A THIRD ONE IN WINTER ONLY. March through November has two: 17.6625c to 500 kWh then 16.1465c. January, February and December add a third above 1,350 kWh at 12.7125c - the deepest step in the catalogue, and a filed one: the schedule prints all three rows.
THE TARIFF BOOK'S FRONT MATTER IS OLDER THAN THE SHEET THAT MATTERS. The index carries 'Order Dated August 28, 2025' and an effective date of September 29, 2025, while Schedule R.S. on Sheet 5-1 is effective July 1, 2026 under Case No. NOIR APCO and WHEELING 26A, Order dated June 18, 2026. Reading the effective date off the cover would have dated this encoding ten months early.
EIGHT RIDERS APPLY, TWO OF THEM AT ZERO. Sheet 37's Rider Applicability table marks all eight against R.S.; Sheet 38 prices them. B.B.S., B.R.S.P. and C.S. are filed at zero and are carried at zero rather than omitted - a dormant rider and an absent one are different facts. The E.N.E.C. at 5.8570c/kWh is almost the whole rider stack, and the Consumer Rate Relief Charge is embedded inside it rather than billed separately.
THE E.N.E.C. IS NOW THE NEWEST VINTAGE, NOT THE OLDEST, and it moved on its own. It was behind the base rates until September: Sheet 34 applied from September 29, 2025 while the base energy charges took effect July 1, 2026. Case No. 26-0469-E-ENEC, ordered August 28, 2026, reissued it for bills rendered from September 1, 2026 and the base rates did not move with it. The two come from different orders and this is what that looks like in practice.
SHEET 38 CONTRADICTS ITSELF ON THE BASIC SERVICE CHARGE, AND IT IS A STANDING DEFECT RATHER THAN A STALE CELL. Its Base Rate column says $14.02, matching Schedule R.S. on Sheet 5-1; its Total column on the same row says $13.44, with every rider cell showing a dash. Three things settle it. A row with no additions cannot total less than its base. The same table gets the other two right - R.S.D. prints $17.52 from $17.52, and R.S.-T.O.D. prints $14.02 back from the identical $14.02 base. And $13.44 appears exactly once in the whole 515,000-character tariff book: in that one cell. The September revision repeats it unchanged, so it is not a cell that was missed in one update. The sheet's own header calls the table 'provided solely for informational purposes'; Schedule R.S. is the filed rate and it is what is encoded.
IT RECONCILES TWICE OVER. Sheet 38 prints its own Total column and this encoding's components reproduce all three rows to six places. Separately, both figures in APCo's published West Virginia typical-bill table come back: $183.06 against $183.07 at 1,000 kWh, and $344.53 against $344.53 at 2,000. The table is correctly non-linear, which is itself evidence it was computed from the blocks rather than extrapolated.
THE SAME SHEETS SERVE WHEELING POWER COMPANY under its own P.S.C. W.Va. Tariff No. 21. Wheeling is a separate EIA operating company with 34,392 residential customers, far below the survey threshold, and is not counted as covered by this encoding even though the document it would be read from is the same one.
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Change history
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