(A) Availability. This service is available to customers for power service who enter into a written contract for electrical service in accordance with this rate schedule having an aggregate (or combined) billing maximum demand of 1,500 kilowatts or more, who are located on the utility’s electrical supply lines suitable and adequate for supplying the service requested and who include all of the customer’s metering points (service) in this rate schedule.
(B) Character and condition of service.
(1) 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, and if transformation of voltage is desired by the customer, will transform the customer’s primary voltage to one standard secondary voltage. 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 the customer’s own premises and at the customer’s own expense.
(2) The customer will supply in accordance with plans and specifications furnished by the utility, and at a mutually agreed upon location on the customer’s property, suitable fencing, pads and foundations to protect and support utility-owned transformers and equipment.
(C) Contract for service.
(1) As a condition precedent to the utility supplying service under this schedule, the customer shall enter into a written contract with the utility for a suitable initial contract period. In case the rates in effect under this schedule at the time of making any such contract are thereafter raised by the authority of the Town Council, the customer under such contract shall have the right to discontinue service at any time within 60 days from the date the rate increase becomes effective upon giving the utility at least ten days’ written notice of its election to do so.
(2) The utility shall have the option of not supplying customers with demands in excess of 2,000 kilowatts under this schedule.
(3) Rates and charges 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.
(D) Monthly bill. The monthly electric bill shall be calculated by adding the customer charge, demand charge, energy charge and any applicable rider charges as indicated in division (G) below. The demand charge shall be calculated by multiplying the demand charge, shown in Appendix C of this chapter, by the kilowatt billing demand, defined in division (I) below, after adjusting for any applicable power factor correction and metering adjustment, as defined in divisions (K) and (M) below. 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, as defined in division (M) below.
(E) Minimum bill. The monthly minimum payment under this schedule shall be the customer charge plus $3 per kilovolt-ampere (kVA) 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 a 3% penalty to 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 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) Determination of amount of electric services 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 kilowatt billing demand. The maximum demand shall be determined as follows.
(1) The maximum 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 maximum demand shall be taken as the highest average load in kilowatts occurring during any 15 consecutive minutes of the month; provided, however, that if such load shall be less than 50% of the maximum momentary demand in kilowatts, 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.
(J) 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.
(K) 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.
(L) Credit for transformer ownership. Customers metered 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.
(M) Metering adjustment. If a customer is primary service and metered at secondary voltage, metered kilowatt-hours and kilowatts will be increased by 1% for billing purposes.
(N) 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. 14-2017, passed 10-10-2017; Ord. 6-2022, passed 6-27-2022)