§ 52.34 GRAIN DRYING RATE.
   (A)   Availability. Any customer located in territory served by utility may take service under this rate subject to the following conditions:
      (1)   Customer is non-residential;
      (2)   More than 50% of customers use of electric energy is for grain drying and/or grain handling;
      (3)   The customers connected load is 10 kW or greater;
      (4)   That the energy delivered is not resold or redistributed; and
      (5)   That the customer does not have any electric generating equipment used to produce all or a portion of customer’s electrical load requirements on a regular basis.
   (B)   Conditions of service.
      (1)   Services will be delivered to customer at no more than one of the following standard delivery voltages:
         (a)   Secondary service:
               Single phase service:
               -   3 wire 120/240 volts
               -   3 wire 120/208 volts
                  (Network)
               Three phase service:
               -   4 wire 120/208 volts,
                  grounded WYE
               -   4 wire 277/480 volts,
                  grounded WYE
         (b)   Primary service: 2,400/4,160 or 7,200/12,470 volts, 4-wire grounded WYE connected, and as available at customer’s location.
         (c)   Other standard voltage will be provided by utility, as available, under the terms of Utility’s Rules Regulations and Conditions applying to Electric Service.
      (2)   Utility will provide and maintain all facilities necessary to deliver one standard delivery voltage at one specified location to customer. Customer shall provide all necessary facilities for utilization of service at the specified delivery voltage and for the receipt at a single point of delivery.
      (3)   Service shall be metered for both energy (kWhr) usage and demand (kW) usage. Demand integration shall be over 15 minute period.
      (4)   Customer shall be responsible for maintaining power factor at or above 85% lagging. If customer’s power factor falls below 85% lagging, utility will provide written notice to customer of requirement to improve power factor above threshold level of 85% lagging. If customer fails to correct power factor within 90-days of such notice to a level acceptable to utility, utility reserves the right to apply power factor correction facilities outside of the customer’s facilities at the cost of the customer. In lieu of adding power factor correction facilities, utility reserves the right to apply a monthly power factor penalty to customer. Such a monthly power factor penalty shall be calculated by dividing the actual monthly demand established by the customer (in kW) by the measured (less than 85%) monthly power factor (in per unit). The utility will apply the applicable monthly demand charge to the calculated monthly demand as a penalty for a monthly power factor below 85%.
      (5)   Customer will maintain its electric service entrance facilities in good repair and in full compliance with the requirements of all local, state, and national codes and standards including all applicable terms and conditions of the National Electric Code (“NEC”) and the National Electric Safety Code (“NESC”).
   (C)   Rates:
      (1)   Facilities charge $26.25 per month.
      (2)   Energy charge. The following charges shall be adjusted annually (May 1) for the cost of living adjustment:
Kilowatt-hours (kWhrs)
used in any one month (3)      Charges
First 250 X kW dem.         $0.13275 per kWhr.
Over 250 X kW dem.         $0.1014 per kWhr.
Transformation charge          $0.94 per kW
      (3)   Demand charge. The following charges for demand shall apply to all usage for bills issued during the following seasons (3):
SUMMER SEASON (1)
kilowatts (kWs) used
in any one month (3)         Charges
kW Max. Demand            $0.00 per kW
NON-SUMMER SEASON (2)
kilowatts (kWs) used
in any one month (3)         Charges
kW Max. Demand            $0.00 per kW
         (a)   Summer season is the billing period for June usage and having an ending meter reading date on or after July 1st and the 3 succeeding monthly billing periods.
         (b)   Non-summer season is all billing periods not in the summer season.
         (c)   The maximum demand per month shall be the maximum demand established in the billing month.
      (4)   Transformation charge:
         (a)   If utility owns and operates transformers to transform the voltage from utility’s available Supply Line Voltage to the Delivery Voltage required by the customer. Customer shall be billed, for each billing period, a charge to $0.75 per kW for kW of Distribution Capacity, but not less than 10 kW.
         (b)   Customer’s transformation capacity shall be the highest measured kilowatt demand of customer during any billing period, but not less that 10 kW.
      (5)   Energy cost adjustment. The energy charges in subdivision (C)(2) are subject to the ECA outlined in § 51.31(C)(3).
      (6)   Penalty charge for delayed payment. A charge equal to 10% of the bill for service shall be added to all bills not paid by the 10th day of the month after rendition of bills. If the 10th day shall be a Sunday or holiday, the net bill may be paid on the next day without penalty. All bills become delinquent if not paid by the 15th of the same month. All accounts in arrears will be charged at a rate of 1.5% per month, on the outstanding balance, on the 15th of the month.
      (7)   Tax adjustment. Any tax or charge imposed or levied by any taxing authority including the State of Illinois State Public Utility Revenue Tax shall be added to the customer’s net bill.
(Ord. 654, passed 9-5-95; Am. Ord. 854, passed 4-6-09; Am. Ord. 889, passed 8-15-11; Am. Ord. 906, passed 9-18-12)