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Summary
of Electric Rates
Residential
Service Rate 1
This is a standard rate for residential customers
General Service
Rate 3
This rate is for small commercial and industrial customers
Large General
Service Rate 4
This rate is for customers who want secondary voltage service
and who have demands of 15 KW or higher
Primary Service
Rate 5
This rate is for customers who want primary voltage service
and who have demands of 100 KW or higher
Municipal Water
Pumping Service Rate 7
This rate is for political subdivisions or state agencies
who want service for drinking water pumping and associated
water production equipment This rate is for political subdivisions
or state agencies who want service for drinking water pumping
and associated water production equipment
Large Capacity
Service Rate 8
This rate is for customers who want primary voltage service
and who have demands of 25,000 KW or higher
Outdoor Lighting
Service Rate 9
This lease lighting rate is for customers who want dusk to
dawn outdoor lighting
Traffic Light
Service Rate 11
This rate is for political subdivisions and state agencies
operating traffic lights
Space Conditioning
and Electric Water Heating Service Rate 12
This rate is for commercial or industrial customers with electric
space heating or water heating
Residential
Senior Citizen Rate 21
This rate is for residential customers 65 years or older with
low monthly usage. This rate is not recommended for customers
who consume more than 620 KWH per month.
Street Lighting
Service Rate 31
This rate is for BWL-owned street lighting systems
Street Lighting
Service Rate 32
This rate is for customer-owned street lighting systems
Energy Cost Adjustment
This describes how monthly bills will be affected by the changing
costs of fuel, power purchases, and other factors
Scheduled Curtailment
Service Rider
This rider is for Rate 5 customers who, at the Board's discretion,
can curtail their load by 1,000 KW or more
Renewable
Energy Rider
This rider is for customers who wish to meet some or all of
their monthly energy needs with electricity produced from
renewable resources or "green power". The customer
will pay a premium of up to $7.50 per month for each block
of renewable energy they purchase.
Renewable Energy Net Metering Rider
The purpose of this rider it to enable customers who generate electricity using renewable energy sources to connect to the BWL’s electric distribution system and to send electricity back to the electric grid at time when their generation exceeds their own use.
Infrastructure Recovery Rider
This rider's primary purpose is to encourage economic
development in the Board of Water and Light service area and
recover those expenses necessary to provide electric
distribution infrastructure from customers receiving retail
electric service from the BWL on qualifying property.
Street
Light Rider
The primary purpose of this rider is to enhance
economic recovery & development in the Board of Water and Light (BWL)
service area. It is available when, in the utility’s sole judgment, the
availability of the rider is a major factor in improving our regional
economy, and when application of the rider will result in a net benefit
to the BWL and its customers.
Electric Environmental Charge
The Environmental Charge permits the recovery of environmental remediation expenses incurred as a result of supplying electricity. All residential and general service rates are subject to the Environmental Charge. The following definitions and procedures will be followed in administering the Environmental Charge.
Energy
Optimization Surcharge
Energy Optimization Surcharge (EO Surcharge)
is designed to recover Energy Optimization Plan program
costs, as required by 2008 PA 295.
Renewable Energy Plan Surcharge
Renewable Energy Plan Surcharge (REP
Surcharge) is designed to recover Renewable Energy Plan
program costs, as required by 2008 PA 295. |