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First Electric Cooperative Rate 13 LGS — EV fast-charging electricity cost

First Electric Rate 13 LGS is the filed rate schedule ForgeAsset models for DC fast-charging sites in First Electric Cooperative territory in Arkansas. Energy prices at 7.0¢/kWh flat; the demand side bills $16.34/kW of monthly peak. For one reference Supercharger site held constant across the whole library, that works out to 42.1¢/kWh per dispensed kWh — rank 59 of 94 filed tariffs (1 = least expensive).

Modeled rates

First Electric Cooperative's large general service rate for sites above 150 kVA in central Arkansas — Jacksonville, Cabot, Benton, and Heber Springs on the Little Rock commuter corridors. Demand is billed per kilowatt with summer (June–October billing) and winter rates month-weighted here; energy is a flat 6.58 cents. Rates fold Arkansas's 6.5% state sales tax; city and county sales taxes vary across the footprint and are not included. The cooperative applies a monthly cost-of-energy and cost-of-debt adjustment whose factor is published only on bills, so it is disclosed here and not folded. The $95 monthly service availability charge is not modeled. Arkansas tax defaults apply on address resolve.

The filed rate book for this territory records no EV-specific commercial rate, so the modeled cost is the standard schedule. Demand follows the model's conservative convention — 150 kW per stall billed every month, the worst-case coincident peak — so a site whose metered peak runs below that would see a lower demand line.

Source: First Electric Cooperative filed rate schedule. Rates are digit-verified against the utility's own filed sheets and update within two weeks of any revision; derivations are on the methodology page.

What the reference site pays here

Reference site: 8 Tesla V4 stalls at 235 kWh/stall/day (57,183 kWh dispensed per month), a 150kW per-stall demand assumption, the model's default time-of-use mix, and a 12% loss gross-up — identical to the full utility ranking, where this tariff sits at position 59 of 94.

The rest of the Arkansas picture

The tariff is one layer. State taxes, incentives, clean-fuels programs, and the charging market shape the remainder — Tesla Supercharger ROI in Arkansas covers them, and the US Supercharger Economics Map shows every US Supercharger over utility territories colored by this same effective-cost derivation.

First Electric Cooperative Rate 13 LGS — questions

What does First Electric Cooperative charge for energy on Rate 13 LGS?

The modeled rates are 7.0¢/kWh flat. At the model's default time-of-use mix (30% peak, 45% off-peak, 25% super-off-peak) that blends to 7.0¢/kWh.

Does Rate 13 LGS carry a demand charge?

Yes: $16.34/kW of monthly peak. For a reference 8-stall site at 150 kW per stall that comes to about $19,603 per month.

What does electricity cost per kWh dispensed on this tariff?

For the reference site — 8 Tesla V4 stalls dispensing 235 kWh per stall per day, with a 12% loss gross-up — the all-in utility cost works out to 42.1¢/kWh per dispensed kWh, rank 59 of 94 tariffs in the library (1 = least expensive).

ForgeAsset is software, not investment, tax, or legal advice — outputs are model estimates from your inputs, not guarantees. Rates current as of research; verify current terms with the utility's filed schedule before committing capital.