Pay As You Go

Prepay is a service offered by Singing River Electric to members who need more flexibility than traditional monthly residential billing. It may be easier for you to make smaller daily or weekly payments as long as you keep a credit on the account. With Prepay, your electric meter is read daily, and your use is billed each day instead of once per month.

If you have a budget system, this service is your answer for managing energy use.

Members participating in the program must pay the $90 starting fee ($35 connection fee + $5 membership fee + $50 credit to start the account). To maintain service, your account must maintain a credit or a negative number.

Think of it like putting gasoline in your car: you fill up your tank, and, daily, you use up some of the gasoline. When you need more gas, you fill it up again. With Prepay, the balance in your account decreases as you use electricity. When your balance gets low, simply add additional funds to your account. You choose when and how much. Plus, you won’t have any fees or deposit charges while on this program.

Your Prepay account balance will calculate daily. It includes electricity used for that day, part of the monthly service charge, any taxes and/or city fees, and any payments received.

If your balance reaches $0 or higher, your service will be disconnected. You have three days to make a payment that will reflect -$50.00 on your account.  After three days, the account becomes inactive, and you must contact a member service representative to reconnect service.

Prepay is a voluntary service, and members may leave at will. To return to standard residential billing, you must pay the $245 residential security deposit and pay any remaining account balance.

We will apply your deposit to the account and calculate how much electricity you’ve used since your last regular billing. This use can either be paid in full at the time of your account transfer or set up as an arrangement to be paid over time. Accounts with an arrangement will have 25% of each payment applied to the outstanding arrangement amount until paid. Once paid in full, 100% of your payments will be applied toward future electricity.