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Standard Offer Service rate update

Total residential Standard Offer Service (SOS) rate for October: $0.106539 per kilowatt-hour (kWh).

  • Winter Residential Energy Charge: $0.1060 per kWh
  • October Residential Power Cost Adjustment (PCA): $0.000539 per kWh

SMECO’s PCA for October was 0.51% greater than the current residential base SOS rate.

SMECO must revise its base energy rate if the PCA for three consecutive months is 5 percent more or less than the base energy rate. Since SMECO’s PCA for October was 0.51% of the current average annual base energy charge and that is not over the trigger level of 5 percent, SMECO’s base energy rate will remain unchanged at this time.

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