Schedule TOU-DR1 is SDG&E's standard schedule for residential customers. The rates below are SDG&E's published totals, effective August 1, 2026.
tariff eff. Aug 1, 2026 · verified Aug 24, 2026
Schedule TOU-DR1 is SDG&E's standard schedule for residential customers. A Base Services Charge of 79.343¢ per day applies on top of usage, and usage up to 130% of your baseline allowance carries a credit of 10.702¢/kWh. The clock above picks the weekday or weekend schedule from the day of the week; it does not adjust for holidays, which SDG&E prices on the weekend schedule.
Rates: SDG&E Schedule TOU-DR1 Total Rates Table, effective 8/1/2026. Time periods and seasons: SDG&E pricing plans. Verified Aug 24, 2026.
Solar makes your daytime power. A battery moves it into the 4–9pm window.
On a time-of-use plan the price of a kilowatt-hour changes with the clock and the calendar. SDG&E splits the day into three pricing periods — on-peak, off-peak and super off-peak — and splits the year into two seasons: summer runs Jun 1 – Oct 31 and winter runs Nov 1 – May 31. The meter records when you used power, not just how much, so the same appliance run at two different hours lands on two different lines of your bill.
On-peak runs 4pm to 9pm every day of the week, in both seasons. That is the stretch when rooftop solar across the region is winding down and households are switching on air conditioning, ovens, lights and EV chargers at the same time. Demand on the grid is at its highest and the cheapest generation has gone offline for the day, so that is where the highest per-kilowatt-hour price sits. Every hour outside that window is priced lower, and the overnight and midday super off-peak hours are the cheapest on the schedule.
Rooftop solar produces the most power in the middle of the day, which is exactly when the rate is at its lowest. Without storage that production is either used on the spot or exported, and the evening still gets bought from the grid at the on-peak price. A home battery holds the midday production on your side of the meter and discharges it into the 4–9pm window instead, so the hours priced highest are covered by power your own roof already made. The same battery also carries the house through an outage.
The schedule name is printed on your SDG&E bill. TOU-DR1 is the standard residential plan, but SDG&E offers others — including plans built around EV charging — and the period hours differ between them. Rates and period definitions on this page come from SDG&E's own published documents; the links sit under the table above, and the figures were last checked on Aug 24, 2026.
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