Columbia Same—Industrial service rate ordinance (§ 27-117)

(a) Available: All large commercial customers that exceed seven hundred fifty (750) kw during June, July, August or September shall be placed on the industrial service rate. The rate is not available for temporary, standby, breakdown, supplementary or resale service.

(b) Application: The industrial service rate shall apply to all electric service for a premises where the service is supplied at one (1) point of delivery and measured through one (1) meter.

(c) Monthly rate charge: The monthly rate per kilowatt hour shall be as follows, subject to power cost adjustments as provided in section 27-118:

(1) Customer charge, per month .....$204.00

(2) Demand charge: .....

Minimum demand charge—750 kw or less:

Summer .....$18,841.95

Non-Summer .....$14,634.45

All additional kw (per kw):

Summer .....$25.12

Non-Summer .....$19.51

(3) Energy charge: .....

All kwh (per kwh):

Summer .....$0.0519

Non-Summer .....$0.0444

(d) Minimum monthly bill: The demand charge plus the charge for energy used during the month

(e) In lieu of gross receipts tax payments and sales tax: In addition to the charge based on monthly rates as computed above, the total monthly charge for service shall include applicable sales taxes and an in lieu of gross receipts tax payment equal to 7.5268 percent of the monthly rate charge. Sales taxes shall be applied to the total of the monthly rate charge and the in lieu of gross receipts tax payment.

(f) Billing demand: The maximum thirty-minute kw demand measured during the billing month, but not less than seventy-five (75) percent of the maximum billing demand during the billing months of June, July, August and September of the preceding eleven-month billing period. If there has been a significant change in operation from the previous year, the director may reduce a customer's ratchet amount to fifty

(50) percent until a new maximum billing demand is set during the forthcoming June, July, August and September.

(g) Primary service: When the customer owns and maintains all equipment except metering equipment, necessary to take service at thirteen thousand eight hundred (13,800) volts or higher, total rate charges will be reduced by ten cents ($0.10) times the highest thirty-minute kw demand during the billing cycle.

(h) Primary metering: If, at the option of the department, service is metered at primary voltage, the measured demand and kwh will each be decreased by two (2) percent.

(i) Power factor: Customer will at all times maintain a power factor of not less than ninety (90) percent lagging. If power factor is less than ninety (90) percent, the measured kw demand will be multiplied by the ratio of ninety (90) percent divided by the actual power factor to determine the adjusted measured demand to be used for determination of billing demand. The department may, at its option, use for adjustment the power factor determined:

(1) By test during periods of maximum demand; or

(2) By measurement of the average monthly power factor.

(j) Load shedding program: Any industrial service customer may elect to reduce electrical consumption when requested to do so by the utility during load shedding periods. Customers who wish to participate in the utility's load shedding program shall inform the utility in writing no later than April 15 of each year. More specific terms of the load shedding program shall be defined in a separate agreement between the customer and the city.

(1) Monthly rate: Credit for demand shedding will be computed as follows:

a.

Performance rate. If the electric utility requests customer to shed load, the performance rate shall be calculated at three dollars ($3.00) per month for each kw shed on average for the load shedding periods during the months of June through September. Customer shall receive a monthly credit based upon the performance rate beginning in October. The performance rate shall be applied to each month's bill for a period of one (1) year.

b. If there is no load shedding event in a given year, the credit shall be reduced to fifty (50) percent of the performance rate and shall remain at that level until the customer sheds demand as part of this program in any subsequent year or until the customer's participation in the program ends, whichever occurs first. If the performance rate cannot be determined, the credit shall be one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) each month. If a customer with more than one (1) account is participating in this program, the agreement shall specify which account is to receive the credit.

(2) Metering: The utility will install a recording demand meter to measure the customer's energy load during the periods the utility requests the customer to reduce the load. Customer, at customer's expense, shall be responsible for installing and maintaining a telephone line connection to each meter for use by the utility.

(3) Demand reduction: The customer shall receive a credit on the customer's monthly bill beginning in October of each year based on the customer demand shedding performance (not to exceed fifty (50) percent of customer's load prior to shedding, as defined in the agreement).

(4) Customer participating in the load shedding program shall remain in the program for an initial period of one (1) year.

(k) Energy storage rider.

(1) Available: The energy storage rider is available to any customer receiving electric service under the industrial service rate that has installed energy storage facilities approved by the utility as being capable of sustaining at least five hundred (500) kw in equivalent energy capacity for continued load reduction for a minimum of four (4) hours.

(2) Energy charge: Energy supplied for the period beginning 12:00 midnight and ending at 6:00 a.m. shall be charged at the rate of 3.84 cents per kwh during the summer months and 3.44 cents per kwh during the non-summer months. Energy charged at this rate will be subject to the fuel adjustment allowance in section 27-118.

(3) Demand charge: As set forth in separate agreement between the utility and customer, for a period of twenty (20) hours each day the monthly measured demand will be excluded for the purpose of the billing of demand as set forth in subsection (f) while under this rider. Measured demand period will exclude Saturday and Sunday of each week.

(4) Billing demand: The maximum thirty-minute kw demand measured during the billing month, but not less than seventy-five (75) percent of the maximum billing demand during the billing months of June, July, August and September of the preceding eleven (11) months. If there has been a significant

change in operation from the previous year, the director may reduce a customer's ratchet amount to fifty (50) percent until a new maximum billing demand is set during the forthcoming June, July, August and September.

(5) Metering: The utility will install all recording demand meters necessary to measure the demand period. The customer shall pay a non-refundable fee to cover the actual costs for the metering required for the energy storage rider.

(6) Load shedding program: The load shedding program does not apply to the energy storage rider.

(7) Contract: Customers wishing to receive service on the energy storage rider must first enter into an agreement with the city that includes provisions concerning: emergency use of the system; a description of the energy storage system; listed hours in which demand charges are excluded; and length of the term of the contract.

(8) In lieu of gross receipts tax payments and sales tax: In addition to the charge based on the rates set forth in this subsection, the total monthly charge for service shall include applicable sales taxes and an in lieu of gross receipts tax payment equal to 7.5268 percent of the monthly rate charge. Sales taxes shall be applied to the total of the monthly rate charge and the in lieu of gross receipts tax payment.

(l) Off-peak discount.

(1) Available: The off-peak discount is available to any customer receiving electric service under the industrial service rate that has a load factor at or in excess of seventy-five (75) percent of their summer peak load. The load factor will be calculated using the customer's highest one-half hour kw demand that is coincident with the annual system peak of the electric utility. Qualifying customers must notify the water and light department, in writing, that the customer wants to receive the offpeak discount.

(2) Energy charge: Energy supplied for the period beginning 12:00 midnight and ending at 6:00 a.m. shall be charged at the rate of 4.07 cents per kwh during the summer months and 3.51 cents per kwh during the non-summer months. Energy charged at this rate will be subject to the power cost adjustment as provided in section 27-118.

(3) Demand charge: During the hours beginning 10:00 p.m. and ending the following 9:00 a.m., the monthly measured demand will be excluded for the purpose of the billing of demand as set forth in subsection (f) while under this rider.

(4) Metering: The customer will provide the city a dedicated private phone line for the installation and operation of remote reading/recording demand and energy meter to measure the time of day readings necessary for monitoring loads and billing.

(5) Load shedding program: Customers receiving the off-peak discount are not eligible for the demand discount outlined in subsection (j).

(6) In lieu of gross receipts tax payments and sales tax: In addition to the charge based on the rates set forth in this subsection, the total monthly charge for service shall include applicable sales taxes and an in lieu of gross receipts tax payment equal to 7.5268 percent of the monthly rate charge. Sales

taxes shall be applied to the total of the monthly rate charge and the in lieu of gross receipts tax payment.

(m) Economic development job creation rider. An economic development job creation rider shall be made available to new customers who are receiving electric service under the industrial service rate, have demand charges in excess of the minimum demand charge, and create a minimum of two hundred (200) new permanent full-time equivalent jobs. The rider shall also be made available to existing customers with expansion and a minimum of five hundred (500) kW of new incremental load and a minimum of twenty-five (25) new jobs created. The terms and conditions of the economic development job creation rider shall be established by written rules and regulations of the utilities department and shall require approval of a service agreement which may be approved at the discretion of the city council to qualifying customers.