(A) Availability. This service is available to customers who enter into a written contract for electrical service in accordance with this rate schedule whose monthly average billing demand is greater than 2,500 kilowatts during the previous calendar year (January through December), who wish to have the option to operate primarily during off-peak hours and who are located on the utility’s electrical supply lines suitable and adequate for supplying the service requested. 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 condition of service. The utility will supply service from its electrical supply lines at only such frequency, phase, regulation and primary voltage as it has available in the location where service is required; if transformation of voltage is desired by the customer, the utility will transform its primary voltage to one standard secondary voltage in accordance with division (Q) below. Any customer requiring service differing from that to be supplied as herein provided may be required by the utility to provide proper converting, transforming, regulating or other equipment upon its own premises and at its own expense.
(C) Rates. Rates based for service rendered under this schedule are based upon the measurement of the electrical energy at the voltage supplied to the customer on the primary side of the transformers furnished by the utility. The rates in Appendix C of this chapter for this rate class will be reviewed every six months, or more frequently if required, to adjust the on-peak demand charge and the energy charge to reflect the most recent IMPA demand and energy charges, including the IMPA energy cost adjustment.
(D) Monthly bill. The monthly electric bill shall be calculated by adding the customer charge, on and off-peak demand charges, energy charge and any applicable rider charges as indicated in division (G) below.
(1) The on-peak demand charge shall be calculated by multiplying the on-peak demand charge, shown on Appendix C of this chapter, by the on-peak kilowatt billing demand, defined in division (J) below, after adjusting for any applicable power factor correction and metering adjustment, as defined in divisions (N) and (P) below.
(2) The off-peak demand charge shall be calculated by multiplying the off-peak demand charge, as shown in Appendix C of this chapter, by the off-peak kilowatt billing demand, defined in division (I) below, after adjusting for any applicable power factor correction and metering adjustment, as defined in divisions (N) and (P) below.
(3) The energy charge shall be calculated by multiplying the energy charge, shown in Appendix C of this chapter, by the monthly billed energy in kilowatt-hours (kWh) after any applicable metering adjustment.
(E) Minimum bill. The monthly minimum payment under this schedule shall be the customer charge plus $3 per kilovolt-ampere of total transformer capacity installed.
(F) 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 3% of the amount of the bill.
(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.
(G) Rate riders. This rate schedule is subject to a rate stabilization adder (RSA) as stated in Appendix E of this chapter.
(H) Determination of amount of electrical service supplied. The electrical service to be supplied under this rate shall be measured, as to maximum demand, energy consumption and power factor, by suitable meters to be installed by the utility.
(I) Determination of off-peak kilowatt billing demand. The off-peak kilowatt billing demand shall be determined as follows.
(1) The off-peak kilowatt billing demand shall be determined from the readings or indications of suitable demand-measuring instruments, provided, however, that if welding machines or other apparatus where the use of electricity is intermittent or subject to violent fluctuations constitute a part of the entire load, then the measurements shall be increased by the connected load in welding machines or other such apparatus, and the sum taken as the maximum demand. The utility further reserves the right to require the customer to provide, at the customer’s own expense, suitable apparatus to reasonably limit such intermittence or fluctuations where, in the utility’s judgment, such apparatus is necessary to prevent undue interference with the service of the utility.
(2) The off-peak kilowatt billing demand shall be taken as the highest average load in kilowatts occurring during any off-peak hour of the month, as defined in division (K) below; provided however, that if such load shall be less than 50% of the maximum momentary demand in kilowatts, then the maximum demand shall be taken at 50% of such maximum momentary demand; provided further, that the maximum demand shall not be less than 80% of the product of the actual voltage multiplied by the maximum amperes in any phase multiplied by 1.73.
(3) The off-peak kilowatt billing demand shall not be less than the on-peak kilowatt billing demand.
(J) On-peak kilowatt billing demand. The 60-minute average kilowatt demand during the same hour as the CP billing demand on the utility’s monthly IMPA power supply invoice (or its successor).
(K) Definition of on-peak/off-peak periods.
(1) (a) The utility shall consider the following as the on-peak and off-peak billing periods for each month. All hours shall be Eastern Standard Time.
(b) On-peak periods are Monday through Friday only, with the exception of holidays, as defined below.
(c) Off-peak periods include the entire 24 hours of Saturdays, Sundays and the following national holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Whenever any holidays occur on a Sunday and the following Monday is legally observed as a holiday, then the entire 24 hours of such Monday will be off-peak hours.
(2) On-peak periods are defined as follows.
Month
|
Time
|
Month
|
Time
|
January | 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
February | 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
March* | 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
April | 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
May | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
June | 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
July | 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
August | 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
September | 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
October | 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
November** | 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
December | 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
NOTES TO TABLE | |
* Reflects time after changing to Daylight Savings Time | |
** Reflects time after changing to Standard Time | |
(3) Off-peak periods are defined as follows.
Month
|
Time
|
Month
|
Time
|
January | 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m. |
February | 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m. |
March* | 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 a.m. |
April | 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 a.m. |
May | 5:00 p.m. – 10:00 a.m. |
June | 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
July | 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
August | 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
September | 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
October | 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 a.m. |
November** | 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m. |
December | 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m. |
NOTES TO TABLE | |
* Reflects time after changing to Daylight Savings Time | |
** Reflects time after changing to Standard Time | |
(L) On-peak/off-peak period adjustment. The utility shall have the right to adjust the on-peak/off-peak time periods by giving the customer 30 days’ notice.
(M) Determination of average power factor. The average power factor for the month shall be determined by computation from the registration of a watt-hour meter, and a reactive volt-ampere-hour meter, by dividing the registration of the watt-hour meter by the square root of the sum of the square of the registration of the watt-hour meter and the square of the registration of the reactive volt-ampere-hour meter.
(N) Power factor correction.
(1) The service supplied by the utility should be taken by the customer preferably at an average power factor of not less than 95% lagging. If the service is taken at an average power factor of less than 95% lagging, the maximum demand for billing purposes shall be corrected in accordance with the following formula.
Maximum Demand x 0.95
Billing Demand =
Billing Demand =
Average Monthly Power Factor if less than 95%
(2) A power factor correction will not be applied for power factors at 95% or greater.
(O) Discount for transformer ownership. Customers metering at a primary voltage who own, operate and maintain all transforming, controlling, regulating and protective equipment will be given a discount of $0.35 per kilowatt applicable to the monthly billing demand.
(P) Metering adjustment. If a customer is primary service and metered at secondary voltage, the metered kilowatt-hours and kilowatts will be increased by 1% for billing purposes.
(Q) Contracts with large power customers. Any new large power customer requesting electric service or any large power customer requesting an expansion of the utility’s facilities to provide additional power shall enter into a contract with the utility agreeing to the following terms.
(1) The utility will provide equipment/materials to provide the requested service at a cost not to exceed $5,000 in any one-year period. Equipment and materials shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) All pole line hardware and wire or cable;
(b) Transformers;
(c) Metering;
(d) Upgrade of present system in order to serve new customer; and
(e) Purchase of territory from other electric supplier.
(2) Any costs to provide the requested service in excess of $5,000 shall be borne jointly by the customer and the utility as follows:
(a) Fifty percent by the customer; and
(b) Fifty percent by the utility.
(3) In the case that costs to provide service to the customer should be more than $100,000, the utility and the customer shall enter into negotiations to reach a fair and workable agreement.
(R) 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, 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.
(Ord. 6-2022, passed 6-27-2022)