GEUS Electric Rates

• Current Rates
• Service Applications
• Primary Voltage Option
• Time-of-Use Option
• Billing Demand Determination
• Special Metering (250 kW or greater)
• Service Period Restriction
• Area Security Lighting
• Savvy Consumer

Current Rates

Residential

• Residential consumers
• Domestic uses
• Private dwellings or individually metered apartments at one point of delivery through one meter
• Not for temporary, standby, or resale service.
• Single phase service
• Residential Service Application
  

Commercial: General Service, Non-Demand (GS-ND)

• Electric service supplied at one point of delivery through one meter
• Not for standby or resale service.
• Single phase service under 10 kW
• Commercial Service Application
  

Commercial: General Service, Demand (GS-D)

• Electric service supplied at one point of delivery through one meter
• Not for breakdown, standby, or resale service
• Single phase or three phase service equal to or greater than 10 kW during any single month
• Multiple service and metering points may only be obtained by special contract with the utility.
  

*Add 215 kWh per kW of billed demand in excess of 10 kW

Service Applications:

• Residential Service Application
• Commercial Service Application
• Aplicación para Servicios de Utilidad
  

Primary Voltage Option:

• Available to any consumer for electric service supplied at one point of delivery through one meter
• Not for breakdown, standby or resale service.
• Three phase service, 250 kW or greater
• Consumer furnishes all step-down transformers and protective devices
• Consumer solely responsible for ownership, maintenance and replacement of facilities beyond
• Utility's primary metering point
• Multiple service and metering points may only be obtained by special contract with the utility
• The General Service Demand Rate is discounted by 2% for this option.

Time-of-Use Option:

• Available to consumers that can establish a lower demand during weekdays than on weekends
• Also beneficial when a lower demand can be established between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. each week day (Monday-Friday) excluding July 4th and Labor Day associated with the five (5) summer billing months of June-October
• Special metering records the demand only between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. weekdays for the purpose of determining the billing demand
• An additional consumer charge of $2.50 per month per meter is charged.
• The Utility reserves the right to limit the availability or to discontinue this option if, in the Utility's judgment, System load or cost characteristics no longer warrant such option.

Billing Demand Determination:

• The billing demand for calculation of the monthly bill is based on the highest actual 15 minute demand interval established between meter reading dates in the current billing month, but not less than 80% of the actual summer peak demand established during the preceding five (5) summer billing months (June-October), regardless of which fiscal year these months occur.
• The billing demand will also not exceed 125% of the actual summer peak demand during the winter billing months (November-May).

Special Metering (250 kW or greater):

• Additional consumer charge of $75 per meter per month for high accuracy electronic metering when required for a special application, such as combined metering or interruptible service.

Service Period Restriction:

• Any consumer receiving service under the GS-D rate schedule must receive service for a minimum period of 12 consecutive billing months, or a period lasting until the consumer permanently disconnects from the system, whichever period is shorter.
• Any consumer that disconnects from the system prior to taking service for 12 months must resume service on the GS-D rate schedule if new service is requested within 2 years of the disconnection.
• The Utility will install a demand meter if it is expected that demand will equal or exceed 10 kW, or if consumption meets or exceeds 2500 kWh in any one month.
  

Area Security Lighting (SL):

Application:

• Available to any consumer for unmetered lighting service
• Service for one or more 175 watt mercury vapor lamps or 100 watt high pressure sodium lamps operating automatically every night from dusk to dawn.

Service:

• Utility will own and maintain, at its expense, the complete light
• Includes fixture, lamp ballast, photo cell bracket and pole
• Utility will, at its expense, replace all inoperative lamps and photo cells.
• Replacement of lamps and glass refractors due to breakage by vandalism will be at consumer's expense.