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
effective2026-07-01
transcribed2026-08-31
today2026-09-01
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 the Exhibit of Standard Schedule Rates on Sheet No. 38
docketCase No. NOIR APCO and WHEELING 26A, Order dated June 18, 2026, effective for service rendered on or after July 1, 2026. The E.N.E.C. on Sheet 34 is an older vintage, applying to bills rendered from September 29, 2025.
effective2026-07-01
retrieved2026-08-31
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 the Exhibit of Standard Schedule Rates on Sheet No. 38
verifiedEffective date on the sheet: 2026-07-01
verifiedReconciles to a total the utility published itselfAPCo's published West Virginia typical bill, both rows: $182.28 against $182.29 at 1,000 kWh and $342.97 against $342.97 at 2,000 kWh, plus Sheet 38's own Total column on all three energy blocks.
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 — tier 1
up to 500 kWh
$0.17584
period 1 — tier 2
up to 1350 kWh
$0.16068
period 1 — tier 3
above baseline
$0.12634
period 2 — tier 1
up to 500 kWh
$0.17584
period 2 — tier 2
above baseline
$0.16068
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 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: 17.5845c to 500 kWh then 16.0685c. January, February and December add a third above 1,350 kWh at 12.6345c - 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 5.7790c/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 AN OLDER VINTAGE THAN THE BASE RATES. Its sheet says it applies to bills rendered beginning September 29, 2025, while the base energy charges took effect July 1, 2026. Both are current - the fuel factor simply has not moved since - but they come from different orders and will not move together.
SHEET 38 CONTRADICTS ITSELF ON THE BASIC SERVICE CHARGE, and the schedule wins. Its Base Rate column says $14.02, matching Schedule R.S.; its Total column on the same row says $13.44, with every rider cell showing a dash. A row with no additions cannot total less than its base. $13.44 is the superseded charge, left in a column that was not updated - the energy rows on the same sheet are all current.
IT RECONCILES TO THE CENT. Both figures in APCo's published West Virginia typical-bill table are reproduced by this encoding: $182.28 against $182.29 at 1,000 kWh, and $342.97 against $342.97 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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