Board of Water & Light
Lansing, Michigan

Electric Rate Schedules

SPACE CONDITIONING AND

ELECTRIC WATER HEATING SERVICE

 RATE NO. 12

 

Availability - This rate is available to any customer desiring service for commercial/industrial space conditioning and/or electric water heating furnished through a separate meter to which no other electrical device except electric space heating, electric air conditioning, humidity control equipment or electric water heating equipment may be connected.  Electric space heating will be considered to include heating by light system provided the primary means of space heating at the time of maximum heating requirements will be furnished by the lighting system with the balance of the heating requirements furnished by supplementary electric heating equipment.  This rate is not available to new applications for heat for light systems received after March 1, 1979.  This rate is not applicable to the use of electricity for electric air conditioning unless the customer has permanently installed electric space heating equipment and uses it as the principal source of space heating, or to the use of electricity for occasional or seasonal substitute for another method of water heating.

 

Nature of Service - The service is alternating current, 60 hertz, single phase at Board of Water and Light (BWL) available secondary voltage.  Three phase service will be furnished at BWL option.

 

Monthly Rate - Shall be computed in accordance with the following charges.

 

 

3/1/08

Basic Service Charge

$22.37

 

 

Commodity Charge

Summer Billing Months of June through October

 

$.0948 per kWh

 

 

 

Winter Billing Months of November through May

 

$.0589  per kWh

 

Minimum Bill - The minimum bill is the basic service charge included in the monthly rate.

 

Energy Cost Adjustment - This rate is subject to an Energy Cost Adjustment factor added to the above energy charges and calculated as defined on a separate rate schedule incorporated herein by this reference.

 

Tax Adjustment - Bill shall be increased within the limits of any governmental authority or political subdivision which levies taxes, license fees, franchise fees, or any other charges against the BWL property, or its operation, or the production and/or sale of electrical energy, to offset any such cost and thereby prevent other customers from being compelled to share such local increases.

 

Delayed Payment Charge - A delayed payment charge of 5% of the unpaid balance, excluding delayed payment charges, shall be added to any bill that is not paid on or before the due date.

 

Application Charge - A $7.00 charge shall be added to the first regular bill for all customers turning on service at a service location irrespective of prior service with the BWL.

 

Rules and Regulations - Service under this rate is subject to the BWL Rules and Regulations for Electric Service incorporated herein by this reference.


Adopted: January 29, 2008

Effective: March 1, 2008