[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.
[1]
State Law Reference — Also see § 386.887.
Cross Reference — As to license tax, see § 16-22. As to security lighting, see § 26-37. As to net metering, see § 26-39.2.
[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.