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Public Service Electric and Gas Company, B.P.U.N.J. No. 17 - ELECTRIC, effective 07-15-26.
EXCLUDES New Jersey Sales and Use Tax, at 6.625%. PSE&G files every charge twice, with and without SUT, and this catalogue excludes taxes everywhere - so the figures here are the lower of each printed pair. PSE&G's own customer summary insert prints the tax-INCLUSIVE column only, so the two sources disagree by 6.625% by design. Do not mix them.
All fifteen transcribed pairs reconcile against their tax-inclusive column at exactly 6.625%, which is asserted at build time.
NEW JERSEY IS DEREGULATED. A customer buys supply either from a Third Party Supplier or from PSE&G's Basic Generation Service default service. The BGS Energy & Capacity and BGS Transmission charges are included here, so this is the bill for a customer who has NOT switched. A customer on a third-party supplier pays the delivery charges and adjustments only.
Eight per-kWh adjustment charges apply, netting to 0.7483 c/kWh. THREE ARE CREDITS filed negative: non-utility generation (-$0.000061), zero emission certificate recovery (-$0.004000) and the tax adjustment credit (-$0.007281). Reading any of them as positive overstates the bill, and the tax adjustment credit alone is 0.73 c/kWh.
The Societal Benefits Charge is the one adjustment whose ex-SUT figure is not printed directly: its sheet lists components and a partial sub-total, then gives the per-voltage-class totals tax-inclusive only. Secondary Service is $0.011365 including SUT, so $0.010659 is used. Every other pair in the tariff confirms that exact divisor.
THE PRICE TO COMPARE IS SUPERSEDED AND STILL FETCHES. It gives the RS BGS transmission charge as $0.060016; the filed tariff gives $0.064507. It is headed 'Proposed Rates Effective on and after June 1, 2026' and the tariff sheet is effective 07-15-26. Both documents fetch and both look like PSE&G rates. Every figure here comes from the tariff.
The BGS Reconciliation Charge is EXCLUDED. It varies over time and is published separately from both the tariff and the Price to Compare, which states that it excludes it too. A real bill is higher by it.
Summer is June through September; winter is all other months.
NOT RECONCILED against a published total. PSE&G publishes no worked sample bill. The tax-inclusive column is a check on transcription, not on whether the right components were assembled.
The time-of-use alternative to Rate RS. Not tiered - the 600 kWh boundary does not apply here at all.
OFF-PEAK IS A SUBSET OF MID-PEAK'S OWN DEFINITION. On-peak is 4 P.M. to 9 P.M. weekdays, off-peak is midnight to 6 A.M., and mid-peak is 'all other times' - which textually includes the off-peak hours. Off-peak has to be tested first. Applying mid-peak first would price every overnight hour at more than double, and the result would look entirely plausible.
Off-peak carries no weekday qualifier, so midnight to 6 A.M. is off-peak at weekends too. Only on-peak is weekdays-only.
OFF-PEAK PAYS NO BGS TRANSMISSION AT ALL - it is filed at $0.000000 in both seasons, while on-peak pays $0.147081 in summer. That is most of what makes the overnight rate cheap, and it is easy to miss because a zero looks like a missing value.
Mid-peak and off-peak DISTRIBUTION are identical in both seasons ($0.039744 and $0.019872); only the on-peak distribution charge is seasonal. The supply half is seasonal in all three periods.
NOT ENCODED: Rate Schedule RHS Residential Heating Service, Rate RLM Residential Load Management, and the WH and WHS water heating schedules. All are filed in the same tariff and readable the same way; none was in scope for this pass.
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