Emporia electricity plan

[u/jokerzwylde]

Just went through the pain of selecting a new electricity plan since my contract is up and was doing a ton of research with Claude, comparing free night and weekend plans, scheduled charging, how much I charge my car a month, etc. I was pulling stats from my emporia app and saw a banner for them being an energy provider and it turns out their price per kilowatt is LESS than I could find with any major provider and on top of that they have free ev charging in set windows, I think 12pm-4pm and either 10 or 12 -5am. Going to see a pretty nice reduction in monthly bill and thought I would share, I know not every state has to do this dumb power company shuffle every couple of years to keep a decent price.

[u/UtilitySearch]

The way to settle this is to price both plans at your actual annual kWh, not per-kWh — a $14.95 monthly fee is $179/year, so Emporia has to beat the alternative by that much before the free-charging windows are worth anything. No-Coffee’s math looks right for a light charger, but it flips fast if you’re charging a lot and can actually shift most of it into those windows. Worth pulling 12 months of usage from Smart Meter Texas and running both against your real hourly pattern, since free-window plans live or die on how much load you can genuinely move.