(A) To whom available.
(1) Available to power customers for light and/or power service who are located on the Utility’s electrical supply line suitable and adequate for supplying the service requested.
(2) This rate is applicable to any and all industrial and commercial customers whose light and/or power service requirements are such as to require a connected transformer capacity in excess of 150 kVa.
(B) Character of service.
(1) Only alternating current, 60 hertz, three-phase service at any voltage available in the applicant’s area. (Only one voltage will be supplied.)
(2) The Utility will supply service from its electrical supply line at only such frequency, phase, regulation and voltage as it has available in the location where service is required; and will transform its primary voltage to one standard secondary voltage. Any applicant requiring service differing from that to be supplied as herein provided shall provide proper converting, transforming, regulating or other equipment upon his or her own premises and at his or her own expense. Primary power service, as described through the customer-provided equipment, will be subject to a 2% energy and demand charge discount.
(C) Monthly rates: power service - Rate “P”. The rates are listed in the Fee Schedule in Ch. 35 of this code of ordinances.
(D) Minimum payment. The monthly minimum charge shall be the greater of:
(1) The sum of customer charge, capacity charge and energy charge for the month; and
(2) The customer charge, plus 60% of the highest billing demand for the preceding 12 months times the demand charge.
(E) Contract for service. As previously indicated, a condition preceding the Utility supplying service under this schedule, the customer shall enter into a written contract with the Utility for a suitable initial contract period.
(F) Deferred payment. All bills on the rates listed in the Fee Schedule in Ch. 35 shall be rendered and due monthly. If not paid by the fifteenth day following the date of billing, there shall be added 5% to the total amount of the bill. Remittances sent by mail on or previous to the fifteenth day, as evidenced by the U.S. 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 day falls on Saturday, Sunday or any other legal holiday, the first business day thereafter shall be considered as being within the limit.
(G) Measurement of maximum load and energy. Maximum load shall be measured by suitable recording instruments provided by Utility, and in any month the maximum load expressed in kilovolt- amperes shall be the average number of kilowatts in the recorded 30-minute interval in such month, divided by the average power factor (expressed as a decimal) calculated for the month. In the event suitable equipment has been installed but is not functioning properly, the maximum load shall be determined as follows:
(1) The maximum load 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, the measurements shall be increased by the connected load in machines or other such apparatus, in the sum taken as the maximum load. The Utility further reserves the right to require the customer to provide at its own expense, suitable apparatus to reasonably limit such intermittent fluctuations where, in the Utility’s judgment, such apparatus is necessary to prevent undue interference with the service of the Utility; and
(2) The maximum load shall be taken as the highest average load in kilowatts occurring during any 30 consecutive minutes of the month; provided, however, that, if such load shall be less than 50% of the maximum momentary demand in kilowatts, then the maximum load shall be taken at 50% of such maximum momentary demand; provided further, that the maximum load shall not be less than 80% of the product of the actual voltage multiplied by the maximum amperes and any phase multiplied by 1.73.
(H) Metering. The Utility reserves the right to meter at primary or secondary voltage.
(I) Power factor. The customer agrees to maintain unity power factor as nearly as practicable. The Utility reserves the right to measure such power factor at any time. Should such measurements indicate that the maximum lagging power factor for the billing period is less than 95%, the demand for billing purposes shall be the demand as indicated or recorded by the demand meter multiplied by 95% and divided by the measured average power factor in decimal.
(Ord. 2010-4, passed 12-20-2010; Ord. 2018-8, passed 12-18-2018; Ord. 2022-3, passed 7-11-2022)