My May '19 Electric Bill

No but I’m accused of not paying road tax on my plug in while I pay $48 of monthly fees much of which go to the counties general fund

 

That's ~13.8 cents / kWh. A little bit more than the US average. Not the low rate, but you must not have many electric appliances running all day long. How many people for how big of a house?

 

Your electric rate is $31.6 for 229kWh. Thus 31.6 ÷ 229 = 0.13799 or ~13.8 cents / kWh. The average US residential electric rate is ~12.7 cents/kWh. EIA - Electricity Data
Your rate is just a bit above that average, but I think your usage is quite bit smaller than the average US household electric usage of 867 kWh per month. How much electricity does an American home use? - FAQ - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

I was just wondering how many people in your household and how big the house is. However, I did find in your comment that your house is a single level 1500 sqft house.

 

I don't think the EIA numbers include the basic service charge. But in reality, I think your real electric rate is what you pay for that month that includes the basic service charge.

 

Here's mine:

 

There's actually a base rate of $3.42/month + 3.135¢/kWh that makes up the TDU surcharge. Then I pay 2.7¢/kWh on top of that.

 

Isn’t your gas and electric for April not May? It’s only May 4th now.

 

Yeah, in the end that's all that matters not all that hocus-pocus billing detail.

Since getting a Clarity, I finally decided to look into the "Free Nights" program offered by a couple of service providers here in Texas and early results look very promising. Using timers and other strategies, we've been able to drastically lower our costs per kwhr while using the same or more energy. We've gone from 14.5 cents to 6.4 cents (first partial month below). That rate will (unfortunately) go up during the rapidly approaching summer months when we can't avoid using more ac during the day but the satisfaction of knowing I'm driving my car with "free" electrons is priceless (12 a.m. spike is car).