Schedule R Residential Service (District of Columbia)
0.01982–0.05659$/kWh
by season and by usage tier · plus $18.09 per month · covers delivery only — delivery alone. Supply is set by market price with no filed figure, so a real bill is higher. NOT comparable to a bundled rate
effective2026-01-01
transcribed2026-08-31
today2026-11-13
Monthly delivery charge
Usage
January to May, November and December
June to October
500 kWh
$29.97
$31.68
1,000 kWh
$49.73
$59.97
2,000 kWh
$89.25
$116.56
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. Delivery only. Supply is bought separately and is not included, so a full bill is higher than this.
Before taxes, franchise fees and any local surcharge.
Provenance
reconciled to a published total
sourcePotomac Electric Power Company, Electricity--P.S.C. of D.C. No. 1, RESIDENTIAL SERVICE SCHEDULE "R", DC - R Twenty-First Revised Page No. R-3, issued December 11, 2024; Rate Year 2 column
effective2026-01-01
retrieved2026-08-31
regulatorPublic Service Commission of the District of Columbia
verifiedTranscribed from the utility's filed sheetPotomac Electric Power Company, Electricity--P.S.C. of D.C. No. 1, RESIDENTIAL SERVICE SCHEDULE "R", DC - R Twenty-First Revised Page No. R-3, issued December 11, 2024; Rate Year 2 column
verifiedEffective date on the sheet: 2026-01-01
verifiedReconciles to a total the utility published itselfThe Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia's own Electric Bill Calculator, dcpsc.org, banner 'Rates as of July 30, 2026'. All four encoded distribution figures appear in it exactly - $18.09 customer charge
verifiedSource document checked daily for changes
approximateThis is not a whole billdelivery only — delivery alone. Supply is set by market price with no filed figure, so a real bill is higher. NOT comparable to a bundled rate
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 October — tier 1
up to 400 kWh
$0.01982
June to October — tier 2
above 400 kWh
$0.05659
January to May, November and December — tier 1
up to 400 kWh
$0.01982
January to May, November and December — tier 2
above 400 kWh
$0.03952
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.
DELIVERY ONLY. Schedule R prices distribution; generation and transmission come from Rider 'SOS' - a separate tariff page with its own rates - or from a competitive supplier. The District's own availability clause says so, and the DC Commission stated it directly in Order No. 22869: 'The Commission only sets rates for the distribution portion of a customer's bill.'
ONE EIA COMPANY, TWO REGULATORS. EIA files Potomac Electric Power Co as a single operating company across the District and Maryland, and coverage counts per company, so encoding one jurisdiction alone would have marked all 872,387 customers covered. Both are encoded, so there is no overstatement to declare - the same arrangement as Appalachian Power.
THE ENCODED RATE IS THE DISTRIBUTION SERVICE CHARGE, NOT THE WHOLE DELIVERY LINE. Schedule R names 18 applicable riders and prices almost none of them: Pepco publishes their values on separate monthly and annual sheets, which is why its own summary sheet lists them as 'view monthly rate' instead of a number. Every one is listed in _provenance.excluded_riders. A real bill's delivery portion is HIGHER than this by whatever those sheets currently say, so treat this as a floor.
WHY NOT FOLD IN THE FEW RIDERS THAT ARE PRICED IN THE BOOK. Because the result would be neither the tariff's distribution charge nor a bill's delivery charge, and no caller could tell which they had. All riders are out, uniformly, and enumerated.
pepco.com IS A SOFT-200 CATCH-ALL and cannot be used to test whether a document exists. Every HTML path there - including deliberately bogus ones - returns the same empty shell with HTTP 200. The tariffs are on Contentstack behind a reverse proxy at pepco.com/cdn/assets/v3/... that looks first-party by hostname, and every URL is version-pinned: the versionless Contentstack handles return empty bodies, so there is no 'current' alias to follow.
THE RIDER LISTS NEARLY MATCH IN PLACES, WHICH IS THE TRAP. Only four riders carry EXACTLY the same name in both jurisdictions - Standard Offer Service, Administrative Credit, Optional Meter Equipment Related Services and Bill Stabilization Adjustment. Three more are the same thing under names that differ by a word: the District's 'Delivery Tax' is Maryland's 'Delivery Tax Surcharge', 'Net Energy Metering Rider' is 'Net Energy Metering', and 'Residential Direct Load Control Rider' is 'Residential Direct Load Control'. Near-identical names on separately filed riders are how a value gets carried across and applied to the wrong jurisdiction.
SEASONS ARE JUNE THROUGH OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER THROUGH MAY. Both tariffs define them identically, and each states them separately - checked against one another rather than carried across, since almost nothing else about these two jurisdictions matches.
RATE YEAR 2 IS THE ONE IN FORCE, and the schedule prints both. Rate Year 1 ran 1 January to 31 December 2025 at $17.09 and 4.895c; Rate Year 2 runs 1 January to 31 December 2026 at $18.09 and 5.659c. Rate Year 1 is the LEFT-HAND column and is labelled with a year that has already begun, which makes it the easy thing to read by mistake.
BLOCKED AT 400 kWh, and the first block does not vary by season - 1.982c in both summer and winter. Only the tail differs: 5.659c against 3.952c. So a District bill below 400 kWh is identical in January and July, and the season only bites above that.
THE RATES ARE UNDER LEGAL CHALLENGE, WHICH DOES NOT MAKE THEM WRONG. DCPSC Order No. 22869 records that on 5 March 2026 the D.C. Court of Appeals vacated Order Nos. 22328 and 22358 - the Formal Case No. 1176 orders that set these two rate years - and remanded. Reporting indicates the rates remain in effect pending remand with no refunds ordered. They are what is billed today; they may not survive the proceeding.
THE DC COMMISSION PUBLISHES A BILL CALCULATOR AND IT IS THIS TARIFF'S RECONCILIATION TARGET. dcpsc.org's calculator is headed 'Rates as of July 30, 2026'. It COMPUTES in JavaScript - fetch the page and its result cells are empty - and that appearance was read for a week as 'the rates cannot be read by fetch'. It is wrong: every rate the calculator computes WITH is a plain `var` in the inline script of the HTML an ordinary fetch already returns. Only the arithmetic was ever in the browser. This note is kept in full because the next person to fetch that page will see the same empty cells and is owed the explanation.
THE CALCULATOR ALSO NAMES A CHARGE THE SCHEDULE DOES NOT. It bills a 'Mayor's Energy Surcharge Fund' line at $0.004854/kWh - the largest of the excluded per-kWh surcharges - which Schedule R's own applicable-riders list does not name anywhere. The calculator fixes the ORDER of a District residential bill too, which is how the excluded riders came to have values attached rather than only names.
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Change history
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