[Ord. No. 419 § 20, 3-6-1950; Ord.
No. 616 § 1, 11-4-1957; Ord. No. 918 § 2, 10-14-1968; Ord. No. 1116 § 1, 3-13-1978; Ord. No. 1141 § 2, 2-12-1979; Ord. No. 1188 § 2, 11-9-1981; Ord.
No. 1206 § 2, 3-28-1983; Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987; Ord.
No. 1815 § 1, 9-19-1994; Ord. No. 2156 § 1, 6-18-2001; Ord.
No. 2256 § 2, 8-18-2003; Ord. No. 2549 § 1, 12-15-2008]
A. There shall be charged to each user, consumer and customer of City
electrical services a usage charge of sixteen dollars and zero cents
($16.00) each calendar month.
[Ord. No. 2746 § 1, 12-16-2013; Ord. No. 2891 § 1, 3-20-2017; Ord. No. 2964, 5-7-2018; Ord. No. 3011, 3-28-2019; Ord. No. 3116, 3-28-2022; Ord. No. 3157, 1-26-2023]
B. Except as provided in Subsection (G) below, there shall be a charge
of 11.82 cents ($0.1182) per kilowatt hour for all electricity furnished
to each and every user, consumer, and customer by the City
[Ord. No. 2746 § 1, 12-16-2013; Ord. No. 2891 § 1, 3-20-2017; Ord. No. 2964, 5-7-2018; Ord. No. 3011, 3-28-2019; Ord. No. 3116, 3-28-2022; Ord. No. 3159, 3-29-2023]
C. For all users, consumers and customers of City electrical service
to locations outside the City limits, there shall be an added surcharge
of ten percent (10%) in addition to the charge in Subsection (B) just
above, which shall be added to the monthly bill.
D. For a one-hundred-seventy-five-watt mercury vapor light, as set forth in Section
26-37, the rate for all such lights installed by the City before October 1, 1994, is seven dollars and eighty-one cents ($7.81) per month.
[Ord. No. 2746 § 1, 12-16-2013; Ord.
No. 3116, 3-28-2022; Ord. No. 3159, 3-29-2023]
E. In addition to the actual costs of installation of a sodium light, the pole and other equipment, as set forth in Section
26-37, the following rates shall apply to lights installed after October 1, 1994:
[Ord. No. 2746 § 1, 12-16-2013; Ord.
No. 3116, 3-28-2022; Ord. No. 3159, 3-29-2023]
1. The rate for all lights and equipment for sodium lights with a wattage
of less than two hundred fifty (250) watts is seven dollars and eighty-one
cents ($7.81) for each calendar month.
2. The rate for all lights and equipment for sodium lights with a wattage
of two hundred fifty (250) watts and constructed on or after October
1, 1994, is twenty-four dollars and fifty cents ($24.50) for each
calendar month for the first five (5) years and nineteen dollars and
fifty-four cents ($19.54) for each calendar month thereafter.
3. The rate for all lights and equipment for sodium lights with a wattage
of four hundred (400) watts and constructed on or after October 1,
1994, is thirty-six dollars and twenty cents ($36.20) for each calendar
month for the first five (5) years and thirty-one dollars and twenty-four
cents ($31.24) for each calendar month thereafter.
F. In addition to the above rates, as provided in Section
16-22 of the City Code, there is hereby imposed upon the Electric Department a gross receipts tax of five percent (5%), which the City is directed to pass on to the users, customers, and consumers of electrical service; and to do so there is hereby charged and imposed on each user's, customer's, and consumer's monthly electric bill a gross receipts tax of five percent (5%), which shall be added thereto and collected with such monthly bill.
G. Whenever, after prior arrangement with the City, a supplier of wholesale
electricity to the City of Centralia shall offer to a specific customer
of City electrical service a reduced or special rate or rebate for
electricity used, the City shall reduce that customer's next regular
electrical service bill by the same amount as the City's wholesale
electricity bill is reduced by such reduced or special rate or rebate.
Should the amount of the reduction or rebate exceed the amount due
from the customer for electrical service, the customer shall receive
a check from the City for the difference.
H. Net Metering.
1. Net metering is available in the City's distribution service territory
at any point on the City's existing facilities that have adequate
capacity and suitable voltage for delivery of service.
2. Net metering service is available to any customer that owns and operates
a solar, wind or biomass generating facility or hydrogen fuel cell
with a capacity of not more than one hundred kilowatts (100 kW) that
is located on the customer's premises, is interconnected and operates
in parallel with the City's existing transmission and distribution
facilities and is intended primarily to offset part or all of the
customer's own electrical power requirements. This service is offered
in compliance with the Consumer Clean Energy Act (Section 386.887,
RSMo.) and Missouri Public Service Commission Rule 4 CSR 240-20.065.
3. "Net metering" means measuring the difference between
the electricity supplied by the City and the electricity generated
by an eligible customer-generator and fed back to the electric grid
over the applicable billing period.
4.
a. The electric service charge shall be computed in accordance with
the monthly billing under the customer's effective standard rate schedule.
Under this net metering service, only the kilowatt hour (kWh) units
of a customer-generator's bill are affected.
b. If the electricity supplied by the City exceeds the electricity generated
by the customer-generator during the applicable billing period, the
customer-generator shall be billed for the billable kWhs supplied
by the City in accordance with the rates and charges under the City's
standard rate schedule applicable to the customer.
c. If the electricity generated by the customer-generator exceeds the
electricity supplied by the City, the customer-generator shall be
credited for the net value of the electric energy delivered to the
City during the applicable billing period and the City's avoided cost,
with this credit appearing on the customer-generator's bill no later
than the following billing period.
5. To qualify for the net metering service, the customer-generator shall
meet the following special conditions:
a. The customer-generator shall have a signed standard interconnection
application/agreement with the City.
b. The customer-generator is responsible for all costs associated with
its generating facility and is also responsible for all costs related
to any modification to the facility that may be required by the City
for purposes of safety and reliability.
c. A net metering facility shall meet all applicable safety and performance
standards established by the National Electric Safety Code, the National
Electric Code, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
and Underwriters Laboratory.
[Ord. No. 419 §§ 25,
27, 3-6-1950; Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
There is hereby established a charge of ten dollars ($10.00)
for each electrical connection made for the convenience of the consumer
where there is no change in ownership or residence, such charge being
for the reconnection of service, there being no charge for the disconnection.
[Ord. No. 1840 § 1, 2-20-1995; Ord. No. 2529 § 1, 5-19-2008; Ord.
No. 3000, 2-19-2019]
Any residential customer of the Centralia electric utility may
make application to the City to participate in a level billing payment
program (also known as a budget billing program) for that customer's
electric utility bill. Said customer shall have had an active electric
utility account with the City in the customer's current location for
a period of at least twelve (12) consecutive months and during that
period of time shall not have been disconnected from electric service
for non-payment. Upon approval by the City Administrator and upon
the customer having executed an agreement to participate in the program,
the customer shall then be billed in the following manner:
A. For a customer whose contract will end in October, the customer shall
be billed each of the next eleven (11) months for a fixed charge based
on the average usage of electricity during the preceding twelve (12)
month period. The bill for the twelfth (12th) month shall include
an adjustment calculated from the actual usage of electricity for
that month and the preceding eleven (11) months.
B. For a customer whose initial contract starts in any month except
November, that initial contract shall be for a period which is for
more than six (6) months and also ends on the following October, the
customer shall be billed in equal monthly payments for a fixed charge
based on the average usage of electricity during the preceding twelve
(12) month period. The bill for the final month of the contract (October)
shall include an adjustment calculated from the actual usage of electricity
for that month and the preceding months of the contract.
If a customer wishes to continue in the program for an additional
year, the City shall calculate a new fixed bill based on the most
recent twelve (12) months of usage and the customer shall execute
a new participation agreement. If a customer discontinues electric
service before the end of a twelve (12) month agreement, then the
customer's final bill shall be adjusted to reflect actual usage since
the start of the current agreement. The City Administrator also may
set additional procedures and standards where appropriate to implement
this Section and to assure full payment of outstanding electric bills.
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