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Rates for Electricity
Definitions
Rates for residential customers
Rates for commercial customers
Security lights
Service
Surcharge
Power factor
Billing; when due; penalty
Compliance with federal regulations
DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively:
(A) "COMMERCIAL CUSTOMER." Those locations engaged in wholesale or retail trade, public business, processing, manufacturing, offering services, and any other trades or occupations. Further multiple unit dwellings where electricity is measured through one meter or a house meter shall be deemed commercial.
(B) "INDUSTRIAL CUSTOMER." Those locations engaged in heavy industry, institutional, public, or large commercial power users which require primary metering.
(C) "RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER." Those locations occupied and used principally as a single-family dwelling.
RATES FOR RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS
E-1 residential customers.
There is established and fixed a schedule of rates which the city will charge for the sale by it of electric current at retail to its customers, both within and without the corporate limits of the city, measured through a single meter, and that rate is as follows:
- First 25 KWH $6.50 minimum
- Next 175 KWH 0.06 per KWH
- Next 300 KWH 0.052 per KWH
- Next 500 KWH 0.0518 per KWH
- All over 1000 KWH 0.0515 per KWH
RATES FOR COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS
There is established and fixed a schedule of rates which the city will charge for the sale by it of electric current at retail to its commercial customers, both within and without the corporate limits of the city, and those rates are as follows:
(A) E-2 commercial customers. For those commercial customers using electrical current without kilowatt demand metering and measured through a single meter, rates are as follows:
- First 25 KWH $7.0 minimum
- Next 25 KWH 0.090 per KWH
- Next 50 KWH 0.080 per KWH
- Next 900 KWH 0.070 per KWH
- Next 2000 KWH 0.062 per KWH
- All over 3000 KWH 0.059 per KWH
(B) E-3 large power customers.
(1) For those commercial customers using electrical current with kilowatt demand metering, the rates are as follows:
- Minimum $175.00
- All KW 6.11 per KW
- All KWH 0.0365 per KWH
(2) Any commercial customer taking service under the E-2 or E-3 rate herein established may request service from either the E-2 or E-3 commercial rates, after he has given the city 30 days notice in writing of his election, providing said customer pays the cost of necessary equipment and installation and/or removal costs, if necessary. No refund will be made of any money paid for the previous consumption due to a difference of rate.
(C) E-4 industrial customer (city owned distribution facilities*).
- Minimum $1,000.00
- All KW 6.11 per KW
- All KWH 0.0345 per KWH
- Power Factor Correction KW 1.00
* As set out in the Electric Department's Rules and Regulations.
SECURITY LIGHTS
- One 175-watt security light $6.55 per month.
- Larger security lights shall be subject to negotiated price contract as set by the City Engineer.
- If the city must set a pole for the light, a $0.50 per month charge will be added.
SERVICE
(A) Inspection fee, electric Refer to electrical inspection ordinance
(B) Temporary pole service, one $30 for 110 volt or 220 house per service volt
(C) After-hour services. All service calls made after hours will be charged to the account of the customer, provided that it is not a fault of the city. A $10 service charge will be made for after-hours turn-ons.
(D) Deposits. The rates listed below apply to residential customers only. Deposits for commercial establishments will be determined at the time application is made for utilities. Deposits will be refunded to customers (residential and commercial) after two years, provided. All bills have been paid by the fifteenth of each month during the two years and no checks returned for any reason during that period. Persons presently on city utilities who move to another residence on city utilities will not be required to update their deposit, provided their paying record is as explained above. Persons who have received their refund and move to another residence on city utilities will not be required to make a new deposit. Persons disconnected for nonpayment who have been previously refunded their deposit will be required to make a new deposit under the two-year policy.
SURCHARGE
There is established and fixed as an add-on charge, referred to and designated as a fuel adjustment surcharge, which shall be charged to each customer to recover the cost of the wholesaler's fuel adjustment charge. The surcharge shall be adjusted from time to time to reflect the fuel adjustment charge currently allowed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to the wholesale supplier of the city. The fuel adjustment charge applied to each customer's monthly bill shall be a multiplication of the total KWH consumption per month by the rate charged to the city by the wholesale supplier. The fuel clause, as approved by FERC Dockett ER83-656-000, WPS-83 Rate, is applicable.
POWER FACTOR
(A) The reference in this section of "power factor" or "pf" is in accordance with the accepted technical meaning of this term.
(B) The city expects the customer's electrical system to be at or near unity power factor. However, the city will permit the customer's system during normal operation, to have a power factor not lower than 90% either lagging or leading. Where the customer's power factor is less than 90%, the city reserves the right to require the customer to furnish, at his own expense, suitable corrective equipment to maintain a power factor of 90% or higher. At the city's option, in lieu of the customer providing the above corrective equipment, the city may add and adjust the maximum measured KW load for billing purposes each month when the power factor is less than 90%, in accordance with the following formula: (BASED ON POWER FACTOR MEASURED AT TIME OF MAXIMUM KW LOAD)
Maximum Measured KW Load x 90% - Maximum Measured KW Load = pf Correction KW Power Factor (in percent)
(C) the city reserves the right to install a KVA meter or metering equipment of a type whereby power factor can be determined for use in the above formula.
BILLING; WHEN DUE; PENALTY
All customers of the city will be billed monthly on or about the first day of each month for all electric service used by them. All bills shall be due and payable immediately upon receipt thereof, and if not paid on or before the fifteenth day of the month following the billing, a sum equal to 5% of the amount of the charges shall be added as a penalty, and shall be promptly paid by each customer so in default. Any customer who fails to pay for electric service pursuant to this chapter by the twenty-fifth of the month shall be charged at $3 service fee and notified by mail of his delinquent status, and shall be given a reasonable time (ten days) to respond. If at that time, no response has been given to the City Engineer or his authorized representative, electric service shall be disconnected without any further notice. Recommendation of service shall be made only after payments of all bills, penalties, and service fees, and an additional $5 reconnect charge has been collected.
COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL REGULATIONS
The city undertakes to comply with all lawful regulations of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) codified in Subpart C of 18 CFR Part 292 dealing with arrangements with qualifying congeneration and small power production facilities under Section 210 of the "Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act" of 1978 (PURPA).