Commercial Schedule C Rate

Designation: 

Commercial C Rate

Available in:

Reading, Lynnfield Center, North Reading, and Wilmington

Applicable to:

Service under this rate is available to industrial or commercial customers who take all their requirements under this rate. All electricity furnished under this rate will be metered through one service unless it is convenient for the Department to do otherwise.

Notice:

All customers taking electric service under the Commercial Schedule C Rate and/or the Industrial Time of Use Rate will be required to give the Department two (2) years prior written notice of its intention to take its energy requirements from other supplier and/or resource other than this Department while remaining on the Department's service territory.

Character of service:

AC 60 cycles: single phase or three phase.

Customer Charge:

$5.51 per month.

Firm Demand Charge:

$5.76 per Kilowatt for all demand usage.

Energy Charge:

$.03808 per Kilowatt-hour for all Kilowatt-hours usage.

Budget Billing:

The customers under the C Rate having a billed demand of 50 kW or less over the previous twelve month period may elect the Budget Billing program under which the customer is required to pay levelized amount to the Department each billing period during the calendar year. This rate is not available to C Rate Customers electing the Contact Demand Rate, or the Non Firm Demand Rate. The specifics of this program are outlined in the Department's General Terms and Conditions.

Fuel Adjustment:

The bill for service hereunder may be increased or decreased as provided by the Standard

Fuel Adjustment Clause.

Purchase Power Adjustment:

The bill for service hereunder may be increased or decreased as provided by the Purchase Power Adjustment.

Measurement of Billing Demand:

The billing demand shall be the highest of the fifteen minute Kilowatt demand established during the billing period, but not less than eighty percent of the maximum demand established during the preceding summer or sixty percent of the maximum demand established during the winter season.

Definitions of Seasons:

The summer Season is defined as the months of June through September and the Winter Season is defined as the months of October through May.

Farm Discount:

Customers who meet the eligibility requirements set forth by the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture for being engaged in the business of agriculture or farming, and upon certification to the RMLD by the Department of Food and Agriculture, will be eligible for an additional ten percent discount, prior to the RMLD prompt payment discount, on rates and charges applicable on their monthly billing statement.

Non-Firm Demand:

A Customer under this rate may designate any amount of load, in kilowatts, as Non-Firm. Any amount so designated shall be capable of being removed form service during any On-Peak hour as may be requested by the Department. A customer will be charged $3.71 per kW-month for each kilowatt of demand designated as Non-Firm demand. A failure to remove load designated as Non-Firm load shall result in a charge of $12.24 per kW of Non-Firm demand for that bill month.

The Department shall have the right to limit the requests for curtailment for Non-Firm load. The Department, at its option, may request separate metering for Non-Firm loads.

The energy and fuel portion of this Non-Firm Demand rate will be billed at the normal Commercial C rate levels.

A customer must contract to be on the Non-firm rate for a minimum of one year.

Optional Contract Demand:

The customer may contract for a specific demand requirement on the Optional Contract Demand rate. The customer shall select a demand level, which will cover its highest annual peak. The cost of the Contract Demand rate is $6.80 per kilowatts. The customer will be billed for that amount of kilowatts each month for the entire year.  If in any month the customer exceeds the contract demand amount then, the contract demand will be billed at a rate of $12.24 per kilowatt. The contract demand level will be re-established at the higher billing amount.

The energy and fuel portion of the Optional Contract Demand will be billed in the same manner as the Industrial Time of Use rate and is described below:

$.03815 per kilowatt-hour for all kilowatt-hours used between 10AM and 8PM, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

$.02602 per kilowatt-hour for all kilowatt-hours used between 8PM and 10AM, Monday through Friday and all hours Saturday, Sunday and holidays as listed in the General Terms and Conditions.

A customer must contract to be on the Contract Demand rate for a minimum of one year.

The Department may, at its own discretion, move a customer exceeding the contract demand level to the general Commercial C Rate.

Optional Peak Load Reduction Service:

During the Summer Season, if the customer has the proper metering that is capable of recording hourly data in place, a customer may receive credit for shedding load at its facility. The Department will notify customers participating in this program that the Department is approaching a peak load situation and load is needed to be shed. It is the customer's choice as to whether load will be shed at its facility.  The customer will be

given a one month credit equal to the amount of load shed coincident with the

Department's peak demand on that day and at the seasonal demand charge.

If the customer sheds load coincident with the Department's annual peak demand; the customer will receive a credit equal to the amount of load shed at this time and the seasonal demand charge for the next eleven months.

Customer Charge:  $27.54 per month for each month customer receives Peak Load Reduction credit.

Customer Transformer Ownership:

A customer requiring a minimal transformer capacity of over 2000 kW will be required to furnish its own transforming and protective equipment, including mat, vault, primary and secondary cables, conduits, etc., which must comply with the specifications of the Department. The following discounts apply when the above is complied with:

$.12 per kilowatt of demand when the service is taken at 2,400/4,160 volts.

$.25 per Kilowatt of demand when the service is taken at 13,800 volts.

$.375 per Kilowatt of demand when the service is taken at 34,500 volts.

Metering:

The Department may, at its option, meter at the customer's utilization voltage or on the high side of the transformers through which the service is furnished.

In the latter case, or if the customer's utilization voltage requires no transformation, a discount of 1.8% will be applied to the bill exclusive of the fuel charge but in no case will such a discount be allowed if the metering voltage is less than 2,400 volts.

Meter Reading and Billing:

Bills under this schedule will be rendered monthly.  A prompt payment discount of 10% will be allowed on the current bill, excluding fuel adjustment charges, only if the entire bill is paid-in-full by the discount due date.

General Terms:

Service hereunder is subject to the General Terms and Conditions which are incorporated herein and are a part of this rate schedule.