When signing up for electric service, you will be put on our residential standard rate. These are other rate options available for residential members.
Levelized Billing
- Equalize your monthly bill by paying close to the same amount each month.
- Levelized accounts are averaged monthly from your last 12 months bills.
Sign up for Levelized Billing.
Time-Of-Use (TOU)
- Our Time-Of-Use (TOU) program encourages residential customers to reduce electricity use during peak hours. Under the program, you will be charged for electricity depending on when you use it.
- The rates are lowest on off-peak periods, when usage and the cost of electricity are low. Rates are higher during other periods, when usage and the cost of generating electricity are much higher.
- Learn more or sign up for Time-Of-Use billing.
What You Can Do to Save on This Rate!
- Use automatic timers to avoid running appliances such as water heaters, pool pumps, hot tubs, de-humidifiers, etc. during peak times.
- Install a programmable thermostat(s) to automatically adjust the temperature during peak times.
- Plug computers, printers and televisions into power strips and turn off at the switch when not in use.
- Wash and dry clothes off-peak
- Avoid running the dishwasher during peak times. Remember not to start it close to a peak time as well.
- Move oven use to off peak hours.
Prepay Option
- Prepay allows members to pay up front for electricity before they ever use a single kilowatt-hour! Prepay helps you control your budget by making payments into your account as you can afford to do so.
- Simply add money into your Bartholomew County REMC Prepay Electric account online, over the phone, or in our office, as your account needs to be filled – like filling up your gas tank!
- Prepay Application
How to Get Started
- You will need to visit our office to sign up for Prepay service and make an initial $50 payment into your account to get the electricity flowing.
- No deposit is required for Prepay, and members will not have late fees.
- Existing members who wish to switch to Prepay will have their deposits applied to their Prepay accounts.