Pepco serves commercial customers across the entire District of Columbia (all eight wards). The small-business GSND schedule prices energy between 7.7¢ and 18.5¢/kWh by time of use, with demand-billed schedules above roughly 25 kW.
Regulated by the DC Public Service Commission (DC PSC). Tariff data sourced from URDB and verified against Pepco’s regulatory filings.
The only electric utility in the District. Small businesses sit on the General Service Non-Demand (GSND) schedule; larger accounts move to demand-billed GSLV and time-metered GT schedules. Pepco owns the poles, wires, transformers, and meters across the entire District of Columbia (all eight wards). Whether or not you sign with a competitive supplier, Pepco still bills the delivery side of your usage every month, and the rate schedule on file with the DC Public Service Commission (DC PSC) controls how those charges get calculated.
For a small business — peak demand under roughly 25 kW — the bill stays comparatively simple: a fixed $35.59 customer charge, a time-of-use energy charge per kWh, and the usual mix of riders. Once you move past that threshold onto GSLV, the demand charge enters the picture, and managing your peak load becomes the largest single lever to cut your bill.
The supply line is a separate decision. Do nothing and you’re on Standard Offer Service (SOS), which floats with wholesale auction results — including PJM capacity costs. Or lock a fixed rate with one of the DC PSC-licensed competitive suppliers. Compare both against your actual usage before renewal windows close.
Every rate schedule Pepco files with the DC Public Service Commission (DC PSC) ends up in URDB. Below are the commercial-sector tariffs we’re tracking, with the energy rate, demand charge (if any), monthly customer charge, and a link to the source filing.
Each step in the chart below is a tariff revision filed with the DC Public Service Commission (DC PSC). Use it to see how Pepco’s commercial energy rate has tracked over time — useful context when a supplier quotes you a price against SOS.
Pepco’s commercial schedules ladder by size. Match your usage profile below. If you’re on the boundary between two, the smaller schedule usually applies until your demand history moves you up.
General Service Non-Demand: energy-only billing (7.7–18.5¢/kWh by time of use), $35.59/month customer charge, no demand charge. This is where most storefront and sole-proprietor businesses in the District land. Compare competitive supply offers against the SOS price-to-compare before signing anything.
General Service Low Voltage: demand charges enter the picture, billed on your single highest usage spike during the month. Request your 15-minute interval data from Pepco and look for one-time peaks you can flatten — a single equipment surge can drive a $200+/month charge.
Time-Metered General Service at primary or high voltage — mandatory time-of-use pricing, demand charges, and customer charges in the $218–$255/month range. At this size, competitive supply quotes are custom and require your usage history; a 1¢/kWh improvement on a million kWh a year is $10,000.
The full DC commercial picture: schedules, SOS, and how to shop.
Residential plans and Standard Offer Service for the same territory.
Line-by-line breakdown of every charge — residential framing, but the line-item logic applies to commercial too.
Rate data source: Tariff information on this page is compiled from the U.S. Utility Rate Database (URDB), maintained by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. URDB aggregates publicly filed tariffs from the DC Public Service Commission (DC PSC) and other state commissions. For source filings, see Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) on OpenEI URDB . We sync URDB monthly and verify rate changes against Pepco’s regulatory filings. Last updated August 24, 2026.