The Survey of TOU Rates in the United States
Utilities Offering TOU Rates
Share of Utilities Offering TOU (by Type of Utility)
Offering TOU Rates
Percent of Utilities
60%
45%
30%
15%
0%
Cooperative
Investor Owned
Municipal
Type of Ownership
Retail Competition
Yes
INo
Sources and notes: Brattle analysis of 2015 EIA-861 data. Political subdivisions,
retail power marketers, and other utilities are excluded in the above chart due
to sample sizes less than ten.
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Comments
-14% of all utilities in the EIA-
861 database offer residential
TOU rates
-TOU rates are most
commonly offered by IOUS;
48% of all IOUS offer a TOU rate
-6% of all TOU rates include a
demand charge (in addition to
the time-varying volumetric
charge)
- Utilities in states with retail
competition are less likely to
offer TOU rates, though TOU
rate offers are still fairly
common among those utilities
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