(A) Availability. The urban residential service rate schedule shall be available to all customers within the R.P.S. service area that lie within the municipal boundaries of the City of Raton, for single-phase electric service used for residential purposes in individual private dwellings, duplexes, or apartments supplied at 1 point of delivery and measured through 1 meter. This schedule is not applicable to resale, break-down or stand-by service.
(B) Character of service. Single-phase, 60 cycles, at available voltages.
(C) Rate schedule. The urban residential service rate shall be the sum of divisions (C)(1), (C)(2), (C)(3), and (C)(4) below.
(1) (a) Customer charge. Each urban residential customer shall be charged a “customer charge” as follows: $11.111 per month (gross) $10.000 per month (net).
(b) As used in this subchapter GROSS refers to the amount of the customer’s bill if the prompt payment discount is not allowed and NET refers to the amount of the customer’s bill if the prompt payment discount is allowed, as hereinafter provided.
(2) Distribution rate.
Urban Residential
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Gross | 7.2032 cents per kWh |
Net | 5.7600 cents per kWh |
(3) Energy cost adjustment clause.
(a) This (net) adjustment, which shall be computed by the following formula and rounded to the nearest $0.0001, will then be multiplied by the individual kWh usage for each customer:
Energy Cost Adjustment ($/kWh) = (F+P)/S
(b) Where:
1. F = Dollar cost of fuel burned during the most recent month to supply electric energy to customers;
2. P = Dollar cost of purchased power during the most recent month to supply electric energy to customers;
3. S = Total kWh sales to billable customers for the monthly billing cycle.
(c) The General Manager or his or her designee may adjust the energy cost adjustment for any month to account for any under- or over-collections of energy related charges.
(4) Tax adjustment. Billings under this schedule may be increased by an amount equal to the sum of the taxes payable under the Gross Receipts and Compensating Tax Act and of all other taxes, fees, or charges payable by the utility and levied or assessed by any federal, state, county or city authority or their agencies on the public utility service rendered, or on the right or privilege of rendering the service, or on any object or event incidental to the rendition of the service.
(D) Prompt payment discount. A discount of 10% will be allowed on all bills if paid on or before the tenth of the month and up to the opening office hours on the eleventh of the month succeeding the month in which the bills were incurred, providing the customer has no unpaid balance on previous bills, except as follows:
(1) If payment is mailed and postmarked prior to midnight of the tenth day of each month, the discount will be allowed.
(2) Whenever the tenth day of the month falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or a holiday, the discount will be allowed on the next following regular work day, and up to the opening office hours the following day.
(E) Budget billing plan.
(1) (a) Any residential customer with an acceptable credit standing may apply to participate in the budget billing plan.
(b) Acceptable credit standing is based on the following criteria:
1. The applicant must be an existing customer with at least a 12- month history with Raton Public Service.
2. The previous 12-month history must not include any charge-offs or delinquencies which resulted in a discontinuance of service.
(2) The monthly billing amount will be calculated as follows:
(a) The average monthly historical billing will be determined by dividing the sum of the customer’s 12 previous months kWh usage by 11 and then applying the applicable rate schedule to this average usage. The average monthly historical billing will be reviewed monthly and, if necessary, adjusted to minimize any excessive debit or credit balance at the end of the 1-year period. This adjusted average monthly historical billing will be the monthly billing amount.
(b) The twelfth month’s bill will be calculated based on the sum of the current 12 months’ actual bills (amount the customer would have been billed if not on the budget billing plan) minus the amount paid by the customer for the current 11-month period (11 x calculated payment). Any credit will be applied to the next 12-month budget billing period. Any debit will be paid by the customer on or before the last business day of August of the given year.
(3) All participants not paying their calculated billing amount by the tenth of each month will have their prompt payment discount disallowed. The customer’s budget billed amount will be 11.1% more than it would have been had the prompt payment discount payment been allowed; however, the customer shall not receive credit for any such increased amounts when calculating that customer’s bill for the twelfth month. Participants not paying their billing amount, whether or not discounted, by the fifteenth of each month will be issued a discontinuance of service notice. If a customer incurs a discontinuance of service notice, the customer will be dropped from the plan and will be required, upon demand, to pay any and all outstanding charges for power used and not yet paid for by the customer. Once dropped from the plan, a customer will not be allowed to re-enroll in the plan again until the customer re-establishes an acceptable credit standing with R.P.S. over a 12-month period.
(4) Any customer wishing to enroll in this budget billing plan must apply in writing to R.P.S. by June 1 of any given year. The budget billing period will be the 12-month period from July 1 to June 30 of each year.
(Ord. 970, passed 3-8-2011; Am. Ord. 986, passed 6-25-2013)