SCE Rate Schedules: Every Residential Plan, What It Costs and Who Qualifies

SCE has one tiered residential schedule, Schedule D, and three open time-of-use options: TOU-D-4-9PM, TOU-D-5-8PM and TOU-D-PRIME. Discounts such as D-CARE and D-FERA, and solar schedules, sit on top of those. Your schedule is printed at the top of your bill. As of June 1, 2026, Schedule D charged 30 cents per kWh up to baseline and 40 cents above.

This page lists every residential schedule SCE describes, what each costs where SCE publishes a price, who can use it and which ones are closed. For how these prices moved over time, see the SCE rate increase history; for the peak-hour detail on the TOU options, the SCE time-of-use guide; and for every utility at once, the California utility rate tracker.

The four open schedules and their 2026 prices

SCE publishes rounded prices for customers who buy both delivery and generation from SCE. If a community choice provider or Direct Access supplier sells you power, your generation price differs. Summer is June through September; winter is October through May.

Schedule D covers individually metered homes, from houses to condos, apartments and mobile homes. Every billing period starts at the Tier 1 price, and usage past your baseline allowance moves to Tier 2. SCE's rate summary adds that, since January 1, 2017, use above 400% of baseline is billed at a High Usage Charge.

TOU-D-4-9PM and TOU-D-5-8PM both give a 10-cent-per-kWh baseline credit up to your monthly baseline allowance; SCE's example is a 200 kWh allowance earning a $20 credit. Homes that attest to having a heat pump water heater get extra baseline on these two plans, 1.9 kWh a day in summer and 2.6 in winter for a basic allowance.

TOU-D-PRIME is for households with an EV or plug-in hybrid, a home battery, or an electric heat pump for water or space heating, and you must confirm the technology when you enroll. It has the lowest off-peak prices and no baseline credit. Solar Billing Plan customers are required to be on TOU-D-PRIME. SCE's rate summary also says a separately metered EV charger can now be served on a TOU-D schedule, with a meter credit.

Baseline: the allowance behind Tier 1 and the credit

Baseline is the amount of electricity the CPUC sets for essential use, figured per day by climate region, season and whether the home is all-electric. SCE multiplies the daily figure by the days in the billing period. In summer, basic daily allowances run from 11.4 kWh in cool region 6 to 45.0 kWh in hot region 15; SCE lists regions 13, 14 and 15 as hot, 5, 9 and 10 as moderate and 6, 8 and 16 as cool. Medical Baseline customers get 16.5 kWh a day more. The full table is in our California kWh-per-day guide.

Discount and add-on schedules

Closed and legacy schedules

• TOU-D-T closed to new customers on March 1, 2019. It had a noon-to-6 p.m. weekday peak and two levels, split at 130% of baseline.
• TOU-D Options A and B are limited to customers who meet SCE's Discontinued TOU Period criteria, including those already on them on March 1, 2019. Their weekday peak runs 2 to 8 p.m.
• NEM, the original net metering schedule, closed to new customers on July 1, 2017. NEM-ST, its successor, requires residential customers to be on a time-of-use rate, with some exceptions.
• DMS-1 (submetered apartments) is closed to buildings constructed after December 7, 1981, and DMS-2 (submetered mobilehome parks) to parks begun after January 1, 1997. DM serves single-meter apartment buildings and duplexes built on or before June 13, 1978, residential hotels and qualifying RV parks, and DMS-3 serves submetered qualifying RV parks.

Solar schedules

Solar customers keep a main schedule and add a solar one. Older systems are on NEM or NEM-ST, with a monthly bill for delivery and nonbypassable charges and, on the annual billing option, the energy balance settled once a year, explained in our SCE annual settlement bill guide. Newer systems are on the Solar Billing Plan and TOU-D-PRIME. How the two credit exports differently is in net billing vs. net metering. Multifamily and affordable-housing solar uses virtual schedules: NEM-V and NEM-V-ST, SOMAH-VNM and MASH-VNM.

Where to read the official tariff sheets

SCE's Rates & Pricing Choices page links the full tariff books, with the legal text and every charge for each schedule, and its historical page keeps schedules going back about ten years. Those are the documents to check if a bill does not match a summary like this one. Before switching plans, run SCE's Rate Plan Comparison with your own usage, and remember SCE says a customer who moves to a time-of-use plan cannot switch again for 12 months. If a high bill is what brought you here, start with why an SCE bill runs high, and to compare SCE with its neighbors see PG&E vs. SCE vs. SDG&E rates.