(A) Availability. This service is available to commercial, industrial and town municipal customers, for single- and three-phase service, who are located on the utility’s distribution lines suitable and adequate for supplying the service requested. This schedule applies to customers with demands up to and including 225 kilowatts or 250 kilovolt-amperes. If the customer’s monthly average billing demand exceeds 225 kilowatts or 250 kilovolt-amperes during the previous calendar year (January through December), the utility will begin billing such customer using the large power service rate schedule. If billing information is not available for a previous calendar year or 12-month period, the utility will estimate the customer’s billing demand using information provided by the customer.
(B) Character and conditions of service.
(1) The service is alternating current, 60 cycle, three-phase service at voltages of approximately 480, 240 and 208 volts and single-phase service at a voltage of approximately 120/240 volts.
(2) The utility will supply service from its electrical distribution lines at only such frequency, phase, regulation and voltage as it has available in the location where service is requested and will transform its primary voltage to one standard secondary voltage as herein set forth. Any applicant requiring service differing from that to be supplied by the utility as herein provided shall provide proper converting, transforming, regulating or other equipment upon the applicant’s own premises and at the applicant’s own expense.
(3) The customer will supply in accordance with plans and specifications furnished by the utility, at a mutually agreed upon location on the customer’s property, suitable fencing and foundations to protect and support the utility-owned transformers and equipment.
(C) Rates. Rates charged for service rendered under this schedule are based upon the measurement of the electrical energy supplied to the customer and metered at the secondary voltage supplied by the utility. Rates charged for service are found in Appendix C of this chapter.
(D) Monthly bill. The monthly electric bill shall be calculated by adding the customer charge, the energy charge and any applicable rider charges as indicated in division (G) below. The energy charge will be calculated by multiplying the energy charge, shown in Appendix C of this chapter, by the monthly billed energy in kilowatt-hours (kWh).
(E) Minimum bill. The monthly minimum payment for service under this schedule shall be the customer charge.
(F) Demand metering. The utility reserves the right at any time to install demand-metering equipment. The utility will normally install such equipment when the customer’s energy usage in any month exceeds 15,000 kilowatt-hours.
(G) Rate riders. This rate schedule is subject to a power cost adjustment (PCA) factor as stated in Appendix D of this chapter and a rate stabilization adder (RSA) as stated in Appendix E of this chapter.
(H) Terms of payment.
(1) All bills on the above schedule shall be rendered and due monthly. If not paid by the fifteenth day of the month following the date of the bill, there shall be added to bills of $3 or less a 10% penalty to the amount of the bill. Bills in excess of $3 shall have a 10% penalty added to the first $3 of the bill plus a 3% penalty to the amount of the bill in excess of $3.
(2) Remittances sent by mail on or previous to the fifteenth of the month as evidenced by the United States Post Office mark on the envelope in which they are received will be accepted as a tender of payment within the time limit. When the fifteenth falls on a Saturday, Sunday or any other legal holiday, the first business day thereafter shall be considered as being within the time limit.
(I) Disconnection/reconnection. Whenever the service is disconnected for nonpayment of a bill, or for any reason beyond the control of the utility, a reconnection of service is required by any customer, and a disconnect/reconnect charge as listed in Appendix B of this chapter will be paid to the utility to cover a part of the cost of disconnection and reconnection of service.
(J) Expansion or extension of service. When a commercial service customer desires or needs service extensions or expansions, the customer shall provide all necessary information as to the requirements and provide the utility with plans if the same are available. The utility will charge the customer 50% of the cost that exceeds $1,000 in providing the service.
(Ord. 14-2017, passed 10-10-2017; Ord. 13-2018, passed 2-25-2019; Ord. 6-2022, passed 6-27-2022)