• This rate design divides a customer’s monthly energy usage into separate tiers based on how many kilowatt-hours of energy a customer uses. The customer is charged an increasingly higher rate for energy used in each additional tier.
  
  
• With our tiered rate design, customers are encouraged to conserve and be energy efficient. The less energy a customer uses, the lower the amount of energy charged at a higher rate. By staying in a lower tier, customers pay less.
  
  
• The tiered rate design helps customers identify opportunities to manage their personal energy usage and monthly bill.
  
  
• By being energy efficient, we all have the power to control our costs.
  

Being Energy Efficient Saves You Money!

Idaho Power is committed to helping all customers through a variety of ongoing energy assistance initiatives. The most important is helping consumers use energy efficiently and take advantage of programs that can help cut costs by reducing consumption.

Go to www.idahopower.com/energyefficiency for information on programs and tools to help make wise energy choices and save energy and money for your home. You'll find money-saving energy efficiency ideas specific to lighting, insulation and weatherization, as well as online brochures with winter and summer energy saving tips, a home energy-saving checklist and ways to manage your electricity bill.

Find practical meter reading and energy efficiency tips from our Residential Customer Resources page.

Learn how to use tiered rates to lower your electricity usage and monthly costs below.

800 kWh x 7.24 cents (tier 1)

$57.92

1,050 kWh

 = 

$78.04

800 kWh x 7.24 cents (tier 1)

$57.92

1,200 kWh x 8.05 cents (tier 2)

$96.60

2,225 kWh 

 = 

$174.77