by season · plus $27.00 per month · covers the full bill — everything the utility bills for energy - directly comparable to another bundled rate
effective2026-01-01
transcribed2026-08-21
today2026-10-08
Monthly bill
Usage
January to May and October to December
June to September
500 kWh
$95.55
$136.45
1,000 kWh
$164.10
$245.90
2,000 kWh
$301.20
$464.80
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
no published total to check against
sourceSMUD Rate Schedule R, Residential Service, Sheet Nos. R-1 to R-4, Resolution No. 25-06-15, adopted June 19, 2025, effective June 20 2025; prices as of the January 1 2026 column
verifiedTranscribed from the utility's filed sheetSMUD Rate Schedule R, Residential Service, Sheet Nos. R-1 to R-4, Resolution No. 25-06-15, adopted June 19, 2025, effective June 20 2025; prices as of the January 1 2026 column
verifiedEffective date on the sheet: 2026-01-01
approximateNo published total to reconcile the whole rate againstSMUD publishes no sample bill and no calculator.
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
all usage
$0.21890
January to May and October to December
all usage
$0.13710
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.
Sacramento Municipal Utility District is a community-owned district, not an investor-owned utility. Rates are adopted by resolution of its elected Board of Directors, not approved by a state commission, so the authority for these figures is a board resolution rather than a PUC docket.
Adopted by Resolution No. 25-06-15, adopted June 19, 2025. The schedules print three columns - effective May 1 2025, January 1 2026 and January 1 2027. The JANUARY 2026 column is encoded here because it is the one in force. The 2027 column (SIFC $27.80) is a scheduled future increase and taking it would price next year today.
The System Infrastructure Fixed Charge is $27.00 a month. That is among the highest fixed charges in this catalogue, and it is a real structural feature of SMUD's pricing rather than a transcription error.
SUBJECT TO THE HYDRO GENERATION ADJUSTMENT, which is currently ZERO. Both schedules say every kWh is subject to Rate Schedule HGA. HGA is a METHOD, not a number: three pages of formula over precipitation at the Fresh Pond station, 28,000 MWh per inch, NP15 market prices and two rate stabilisation funds, stating no rate at all. The current value comes from SMUD's residential rates page - 'currently set at $0.00/kWh' - not from any filed schedule. It is recalculated each Water Year and applies from May 1 to April 30, so these rates are all-in today and would not be after a dry year.
THE HGA VALUE IS NOT MONITORED, AND THAT IS A KNOWN GAP. Rate Schedule HGA is watched, so a change to the METHOD is detected. The current $0.00 comes from SMUD's residential rates page, which is not watched because it is a marketing page that changes on essentially every run - it fired a re-encode alert the first time it was added. So if SMUD levies a hydro surcharge after a dry year, nothing here will notice. Re-check the rates page when the Water Year turns over on May 1.
Summer is June 1 to September 30. Non-summer is October 1 to May 31, which is eight months - a less even split than most seasonal tariffs here.
EXCLUDED: the Energy Assistance Program Rate and the Medical Equipment Discount, both of which are eligibility-restricted, and the Plug-In Electric Vehicle credit of -$0.0150/kWh between midnight and 6am, which requires registering a vehicle in My Account.
NOT RECONCILED against a published total. SMUD publishes no worked sample bill and no bill calculator. Correctness rests on transcription, cross-checked between the filed schedule and SMUD's own rates page, which agree on all seven figures.
SMUD's rates page states an average residential bill of $149 a month at 750 kWh as of June 1 2026. That is an average across rate plans and usage shapes with no stated basis, so it is recorded as context and asserted on by nothing.
THE ALTERNATIVE RATE, NOT THE DEFAULT. Schedule R's own text says 'The Fixed Rate is the alternative rate to SMUD's Time-of-Day (TOD) (5-8 p.m.) Rate'. R-TOD is what a household gets unless it opts out. Most utilities in this catalogue are the other way round.
Not tiered and not time-varying: one price for every kWh in the season. Only the season moves.
Required for customers on analog or non-communicating digital meters. Not available to customers with storage, with a post-2018 renewable generation facility, or on a master meter.
The energy charge MAY be prorated when a billing period spans a season or price change - which differs from R-TOD, where the schedule says it is not prorated at all. This engine bills whole months and models neither.
NOT ENCODED: Time-of-Day (Low Use) Rate (RTL1). Restricted to customers with a panel of 125 amps or less using under 270 kWh a month, and this encoding cannot express either condition. Its SIFC is $17.00 rather than $27.00.
NOT ENCODED: Critical Peak Pricing (RTC1). Prices depend on CPP Events called by SMUD up to 50 hours a summer, announced a day ahead, at a price posted on the website rather than filed. A bill cannot be computed in advance, and enrolment is capped at 30,000 customers.
NOT ENCODED: Master-Metered Multifamily and Mobile Home Park (RSMM), which is closed to new customers.
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Change history
The source document is fetched daily and every version is kept.
Utilities do not publish superseded rates, so this record does not exist
elsewhere once a rate changes.
No changes detected since monitoring began. The source sheet is checked daily.