13.08.292 – Rate 9 - Primary metered large general service - Rates, charges and service requirements

1. Availability.  Electrical energy is available under the Primary Metered Large General Service rate to any customer using the City’s electric system for all requirements other than residential service where such customer is metered at the primary level (12 kV or higher) and has a monthly peak kilowatt demand of at least 450 kilowatts during the billing period.  Any customer on this rate whose monthly peak demand has not exceeded 450 kilowatts in the preceding twelve billing periods will be billed at the rate described in Section 13.08.260.
2. Charges for this rate shall be as follows:
   1. Monthly Customer Charge. The net monthly customer charge shall be two hundred seventy-seven dollars and seventy-five cents ($277.75) per meter.
   2. Power Factor Correction.  Customers are required to maintain power factor above .85 lagging.  If customer’s metered power factor is below .85 in the current billing cycle, the  customer billing demand will be adjusted in the current billing cycle according to the formula:  Billing Demand = (1+(.85 – Power Factor)) x metered demand.
   3. Demand Charge. The net demand charge shall be as follows:
      $20.00  per kilowatt 
   4. Energy Charge. The net energy charge shall be as follows:

$0.0624 per kilowatt-hour On-Peak                                                                                  $0.0525 per kilowatt-hour Off-Peak

           5.  The definition of On-Peak and Off-Peak Periods:  Energy On-Peak Periods, for purposes hereof, shall be the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Monday through Friday, except on days on which the following holidays are generally observed:  New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day.   Energy Off-Peak Periods shall be all other hours. 

Demand Peak Periods, for purposes hereof, shall be the hours, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Monday through Friday, except the holidays designated above.  Demand Off-Peak Periods shall be all other hours.

6.  Minimum Charge.  The net minimum monthly charge shall be the net monthly customer charge.

7.  Gross Charge.  The gross charge shall be ten percent more than the sum of the net customer charge, net demand charge and net energy charge.

8.  The terms and conditions stated in Sections 13.08.010 through 13.08.210 apply to this rate and service hereunder shall be subject thereto.
 

C.  General Requirements:

1. The customer’s wiring shall be so arranged that all service hereunder may be supplied through a single metering installation adequate for a normal load equal to the maximum thirty-minute demand of the customer, at a power factor of eighty-five percent lagging.  Except in multi-occupancy business premises where each business shall be serviced as an individual customer.  Nothing in this rate shall be deemed to preclude a residential occupancy on the customer’s property from being served as a separate customer on a residential rate.
2. Measurement of Demand and Kilowatt-hours Supplied.  Where two or more metering installations are provided on the customer’s premises, the demand in any thirty-minute period shall be determined by adding together the separate demands at each metering installation during such thirty-minute period except that:

   In case the demand at any metering installation is registered by an indicating or cumulative demand meter, the demand at such installation in each thirty-minute period of any month shall be assumed to be the same as the highest demand in any thirty-minute period of such month.  Where two or more metering installations are provided on the customer’s premises and are for the same customer, and if one or more installations qualified for rate 5 and one or more installations qualified for rate 9, then the metering installation readings shall be combined and billed at rate 9.

3. The terms and conditions stated Sections 13.08.010 through 13.08.210 apply to this rate and service hereunder shall be subject thereto.