About Our Old Bill
Our service bills are "unbundled," or itemized. Your total bill is broken out into separate line items for various services so you can see the costs for such services. The image of a 'sample' bill is shown below as an example with an explanation of the charges immediately following. To view current prices, please review
Service Rates and
Supply Costs. Any charges are only illustrative examples and are not a forecast of the market price.
Delivery Services
All customers are billed these charges even if they buy their electricity from an alternative energy supplier.
- Customer Charge—The portion of your bill that includes the costs of providing services, such as metering and billing. These are fixed costs and are not affected by the actual amount of energy you use.
- Distribution Charge—The cost of delivering energy to your location.
- Transmission Charge—The cost of moving electricity over high voltage power lines from a generating plant to our service territory.
- Stranded Cost Charge—The charge that allows us to recover our past financial commitments to supply energy to consumers in a regulated environment.
- Systems Benefit Charge—The cost of providing low-income and other system benefits required by the Public Utilities Commission.
Supplier Services
Charges shown in this area of the bill is for energy that we supply to you (called
Energy Service).
