Colorado EV Owners that have United Power as your Power Utility

[TollKeeper]

When you switched to your EV, did you change your outdoor meter, or change anything with United Power as to their rate and/or rate plans?

Serious quesion!

I am currently on their Standard Residential rate plan... But there are 3 other rate plans. I dont know if I need to consider them

Based on my house size, family of 8 (4 adults, 4 kids), with a at home business that my wife runs. Running the math using the figures below, I am not sure I would gain anything..

What has been your experience?

https://www.unitedpower.com/rates

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[Aardvark]

Contact United Power Member Services and ask them to model your load profile from the day of taking delivery on your Rivian through the 4 rate options. Your AMI (advanced metering infrastructure) meter provides load data down to 15 minute increments, so precise modeling is possible.
One caveat is that a year's worth of data would be the most accurate. It looks like from your signature that you've had your Rivian for less than a month. You can still ask them to model the 4 different rates and use the assumption that you will charge the vehicle at say 35 kWh every two days and only between 11 PM and 4 AM, for example.
If you have flexibility in reducing your peak demand (ie peak power in kW) by not running high power devices simultaneously, it may be possible to reduce your overall electric costs by accepting a rate structure with a demand component. But this requires some detailed knowledge of your load profile, which unless you have data logging set up, you will have to get it from United.

 

[TollKeeper]

Dont have my EV yet.. Just planning..

I have detailed access to my daily usage, not sure about hourly, or quater hour.

Using right at 36kwh per day currently. But temps are down, and AC is off.

Current months bill is right at 800kwh. Prior months go from 750 to 1900 kwh.. All weather dependent. My Winter bill will stay low, as I am natural gas heated, and those bills are cheap.

 

[CUBldr97]

I saw no reason for me to switch, been here 4 years, and I added solar... flat rate seems the best way for me. but I may dig deeper as Aardvark suggested. but we work from home, so I have cars plugged in, run the dryer etc...

 

[Sgt Beavis]

I've got Standard Residential. Looking at my bill I'm paying about $25 a month for Demand Pricing while my energy charge is $2-300 a month. That is almost all from my truck, which is already set to charge during non-peak times. The 'Time of Day' plan might save me some coin.

I think I need to get the actual utilization from my truck and work backwards to figure out what my potential costs would be.

 

[nb84]

Sorry to necro an old thread, but I'm about to pull the trigger on an R1T and curious what you guys found to be the right balance. I have United's Standard Residential plan as well, and I've run some numbers based on past load and found that either Time of Day or Smart Choice would probably be much cheaper, but I'm curious if anyone from this thread switched and can report on their savings.

 

[TollKeeper]

Because of my wives at home business, and the house has 2 families in it, switching to the other plans did not make sense for me.

To avoid time of usage charges, I even changed when I charged my EV, and that didnt make a bit of difference.

So I just left it on the standard rate.

I am switching from a Electric Stove tomorrow, to natural gas. that will also help in bringing down my cost as NatGas is far, FAR, cheaper. I am also going to be switching my furnace, Cloths dryer, and water heater over to NatGas.

AC is still my biggest cost. Summer electric bills are usually in the 300-400 range. I am expecting them to be slightly higher this year as the electric rate got increased this year. Hoping my switch to NatGas will help offset those.

I am just happy I was able to convince the wife to get off the electric, and go with NatGas. Been working on that for 12 years!

 

[emoore]

Because of my wives at home business, and the house has 2 families in it, switching to the other plans did not make sense for me.

To avoid time of usage charges, I even changed when I charged my EV, and that didnt make a bit of difference.

So I just left it on the standard rate.

I am switching from a Electric Stove tomorrow, to natural gas. that will also help in bringing down my cost as NatGas is far, FAR, cheaper. I am also going to be switching my furnace, Cloths dryer, and water heater over to NatGas.

AC is still my biggest cost. Summer electric bills are usually in the 300-400 range. I am expecting them to be slightly higher this year as the electric rate got increased this year. Hoping my switch to NatGas will help offset those.

I am just happy I was able to convince the wife to get off the electric, and go with NatGas. Been working on that for 12 years!

I'd be a bit weary of switching everything to NG. While it's cheap now it wasn't that cheap not so long ago (at least for Xcel). That's why I put in a heat pump when I changed my AC. I'd rather use more electricity than NG. I do have solar though to help offset the costs.

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