Schedule R-1(A) Standard Residential Service, Zone 1
0.27292–0.41852$/kWh
by season and by usage tier · plus $2.30 per month · covers the full bill — everything the utility bills for energy - directly comparable to another bundled rate
transcribed2026-09-10
effective2026-10-01
today2026-10-11
Monthly bill
Usage
January to May and October to December
June to September
500 kWh
$147.55
$147.55
1,000 kWh
$313.30
$313.30
2,000 kWh
$644.81
$727.47
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
sourceElectric Rate Summary effective 7-1-2019, Schedule R-1(A) Standard, Total column (Capped Ordinance plus Final Incremental Electric Rate Ordinance), with the Oct - Dec 2026 Residential Adjustment Billing Factors that the summary defers to
docketRates set by City Ordinance; adjustment factors set quarterly under the incremental rate ordinance and approved by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners.
effective2026-10-01
retrieved2026-09-10
regulatorCity of Los Angeles (municipal utility, no state commission jurisdiction over rates)
verifiedTranscribed from the utility's filed sheetElectric Rate Summary effective 7-1-2019, Schedule R-1(A) Standard, Total column (Capped Ordinance plus Final Incremental Electric Rate Ordinance), with the Oct - Dec 2026 Residential Adjustment Billing Factors that the summary defers to
verifiedEffective date on the sheet: 2026-10-01
verifiedReconciles to a total the utility published itselfLADWP's own published R-1A 'Total Consumption Charge (includes Adjustment Factors)' table, at ladwp.com/account/customer-service/electric-rates/residential-rates, which LADWP introduces as 'The rates shown below are the
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
June to September — tier 1
up to 350 kWh
$0.27292
June to September — tier 2
up to 1,050 kWh
$0.33151
June to September — tier 3
above 1,050 kWh
$0.41852
January to May and October to December — tier 1
up to 350 kWh
$0.27292
January to May and October to December — tier 2
up to 1,050 kWh
$0.33151
January to May and October to December — tier 3
above 1,050 kWh
$0.33151
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.
LADWP is MUNICIPAL. Rates are set by City of Los Angeles ordinance and moved by adjustment factors published quarterly, not by filed tariff sheets. A rate ordinance from 2016 and a summary effective 2019 are both current documents.
THE POWER ACCESS CHARGE IS NOT ENCODED AT ITS BILLED VALUE. It is $2.30, $7.90 or $22.70 a month depending on the customer's HIGHEST monthly usage in the preceding twelve months, reset each October 1 - not on the usage being billed. Encoded here at the Tier 1 value. A household that reached Tier 3 once last summer pays $22.70 every month, and this figure understates their fixed charge by $20.40.
ADJUSTMENT FACTORS ARE 74% OF A TIER 1 BILL and are re-set every quarter. The encoded rates use the Oct - Dec 2026 factors. This is the figure that makes an annual snapshot of LADWP wrong.
ONLY THE LOW SEASON OF THIS ENCODING IS PUBLISHED. LADWP re-prices quarterly and the schema is annual, so a tariff built for one quarter carries a row for the other season that its factors will never actually be applied to. Oct - Dec 2026 falls entirely in the low season; that row reconciles exactly against LADWP's published Total Consumption Charge (0.27292 / 0.33151 / 0.33151). The other season's row is these factors applied to the other season's base rates - arithmetically correct, and a PROJECTION rather than a published figure, because the quarter that season falls in will have its own factors. Price a date inside Oct - Dec 2026 and the answer is LADWP's own; price outside it and the base rates are right and the adders are the nearest published vintage.
Tiers 2 and 3 are billed at the same rate in the low season (October-May). Stated in words on LADWP's rates page and printed as the same number twice in the rate summary; both agree.
Zone 1 is the cooler part of the city, Zone 2 the hotter, and Zone 2 receives a larger Tier 1 allowance at the same rate. The zone boundaries are a street-level table, not a ZIP or county rule, so this encoding does not attempt to resolve an address to a zone.
Excludes the Minimum Charge of $10.00 per month (plus ECA, ESA and RCA), which binds only at very low usage, and any Lifeline, low-income, EV or solar adjustments.
THE SEVEN ADJUSTMENT FACTORS ARE THE COMPLETE SET, and that is checked rather than assumed. LADWP's factors table has exactly seven columns - ECA, ESA, RCA, IRCA, VEA, CRPSEA, VRPSEA - and all seven are encoded. The proof is the reconciliation: base plus adders equals LADWP's own published Total Consumption Charge exactly, on all three tiers, for two different quarters at two different adder totals. A missing per-kWh rider would make all six of those come up short by the same amount.
EXCLUDES THE CITY ELECTRICITY USERS TAX, and no rate is given for it here because LADWP does not publish one - it is set by the Los Angeles Municipal Code, not by the rate ordinances. LADWP's rates page is explicit that what it publishes is a total 'excluding taxes', so the tax sits ON TOP of every figure in this encoding. A Los Angeles bill will exceed what this prices, and by a percentage rather than a fixed amount. Named without a number deliberately: the alternative was to carry a rate no source in this catalogue supports. Compare pseg-rs, where New Jersey's 6.625% Sales and Use Tax IS published alongside the rates and is therefore quantified.
Excludes the Renewable Energy Adjustment (REA), an OPT-IN green power rider. The ordinance says it is 'in addition to, not in lieu of' the standard schedule and it is billed as REA = REAF x percent-of-usage-elected x kWh, so it applies only to customers who have chosen a green power percentage and cannot be encoded into a default residential rate.
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Change history
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