The extension of Company’s facilities for the supply of electric service to a customer or group of customers will be made under one of the following plans applicable thereto, except that Plans A and B shall not apply to expansions originating from extensions on which Plan C is in effect. Plans B and C apply only to extensions of distribution facilities to serve installations where, in the Company’s judgment, the use of service may reasonably be expected to continue for the normal life of the facilities.
(a) Plan A. No financing of distribution facilities will be required of customers, other than by contracting to use and pay for service under an appropriate rate schedule of the Company, under the following conditions:
(1) For service delivered at voltages higher than 15,000 volts, when the required extension of distribution facilities does not exceed that specified in an appropriate rate schedule to be the responsibility of the Company;
(2) For service delivered at voltages lower than 15,000 volts, when the estimated cost of the extension does not exceed the Company’s estimate of the amount of base rate revenue exclusive of fuel cost adjustment to be derived therefrom during the first two years following completion of the extension; or
(3) When in the case of residential customers, the length of the extension is not greater than one span of primary or secondary line per customer, excluding service drops which shall not exceed 125 feet per customer.
(b) Plan B.
(1) Financing will be required of customers, other than residential customers, either in the form of customer advances for construction or guaranteed monthly minimum charges, when the estimated construction cost of the extension exceeds the Company’s estimate of the amount of the revenue from base rates, exclusive of fuel cost adjustment revenue, to be derived therefrom during the first two years following its completion.
(2) Such financing will be determined under the terms of either of the following plans at the customer’s option:
A. That part of the estimated construction cost which is in excess of the estimated two years base rate revenue shall be advanced by the customer(s) before work is started. At the end of two years after completion of an extension thus financed, the Company will prepare a statement showing the actual construction cost and the actual base rate revenue received therefrom, and will refund to the customer(s) if appropriate, any amount by which the advance made exceeds the amount which would have been made had the estimated construction cost and the estimated base rate revenue for the two years been equal to the actual cost and the actual base rate revenue obtained. Any such refund shall be in proportion to the advance made by each customer, unless otherwise agreed upon by the customer. When additional customer(s) are connected to an extension financed under this plan during the initial two-year period of the contract the amount of the construction deposit per customer will be adjusted to the amount which would have been required if the extension, including the addition(s) were considered as a single project, provided that such recalculation results in lower construction deposit(s) of the original customer(s). Otherwise such addition(s) to the extension will be treated as a separate extension(s). No interest will be payable upon either total advances or any amounts refunded; and
B. The customer(s) will guarantee a monthly minimum bill exclusive of fuel cost adjustment of not less than one twenty-fourth of the construction cost of the extension, such one twenty-fourth to be divided equally among customers served from the extension, unless otherwise agreed upon, under contracts to take service for a period of not less than two years, such minimum monthly bills to continue in effect during any and all renewals or extensions of such contracts. When additional customer(s) are connected to an extension financed under this plan during the initial two-year contract period, the minimum charge requirements per customer will be adjusted to the amount which would have been required if the extension, including the addition(s) were considered as a single project, provided that such recalculation results in lower minimum charge(s) to the original customer(s). Otherwise such addition(s) to the extension will be treated as a separate extension(s).
(c) Plan C. Financing will be required of permanent residential customers requiring extensions of greater length than one span of primary or secondary line per customer, in accordance with the provisions of Schedule “H”, of this tariff.
(d) Plan D. If the Company is requested to extend or add to its facilities for the purpose of supplying temporary service, or service to an operation which may have a limited life, or to meet special or unusual conditions, the Company may make such arrangements for financing the Company’s facilities as may be mutually agreed, provided that such arrangements are without preference to or discrimination against such customer or other customers of the Company. Any extension financed in whole or in part by customers will become the property of the Company and every customer participating in such financing will agree that the ownership of such line extension is vested in the Company. The Company reserves the right to refuse to make an extension of its facilities, or to take title to and assume responsibility for the future maintenance and replacement of facilities built by another and offered to the Company, when so doing the Company is required to assume unusual risk or to incur extraordinary losses in electric energy or excessive operating, maintenance and replacement costs.