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Rate Schedules and Policies

RSP N-8
Rate Schedules and Rate Application Guidelines

Small Industrial Rate Application Guidelines

Industrial Rates apply to the following S.I.C. groups:

Division C Major group:
04 Logging Industry

Division D Major groups:
06 Mining Industries
07 Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
08 Quarry and Sand Pit Industries
09 Service Industries Incidental to Mineral Extraction

Division E Manufacturing Industries.
In addition:

Fish hatcheries qualify for this rate.

Any business operation involving both manufacturing/processing and service/repair in which more than one half of the business volume is manufacturing/processing.

Warehousing, storage and distribution centres on the same property and forming part of a manufacturing or processing operation with one (1) meter where the manufacturing/processing load is greater than one half of the total electricity consumed.

A processing operation on a farm must install a separate meter to measure that processing load.

Customers whose demand is above 750 kW and less than 3000 kW may choose to be billed at the Small Industrial Rate but must meet certain conditions of the Large Industrial Rate; specifically, they must be metered at a primary voltage of 69 kV and own the step-down transformation from the primary service voltage or pay an equivalent rental charge.


Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanism: This rate is subject to the Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanism
RSP N-9
Rate Schedules and Rate Application Guidelines

Large Industrial Rate Schedule

Large Industrial

That category of customers in all areas served by Maritime Electric who use electricity chiefly for manufacturing or processing of goods or for the extraction of raw materials and have a minimum contracted demand of 750 kW.

Billing Demand

The greatest of:

  • The monthly maximum kW demand;
  • 90% of the maximum kVA demand;
  • 90% of the firm amount reserved in the contract for non-curtailable customers or 100% of the total contracted amount for curtailable customers;
  • 90% of the maximum demand recorded during the current calendar year excluding April through November; or
  • 90% of the lesser of the average demand recorded during the previous calendar year, or the previous calendar year excluding April through November.

Rates (Code 310)
Demand Charge: $13.38 per kW of the billing demand per month

Energy Charge: 4.89¢ per kWh for all kWh per month

Declining Discount Firm Rate:
New facilities coming into service after April 1, 2000 or facilities that were substantially shut down as at October 1, 2000 are eligible for a declining discount on Demand Charges for the additional firm load.

The declining discount is available for five years to Customers who meet all of the following criteria:

i) the Customer is served directly from the Maritime Electric's transmission system;

ii) the additional firm load is at least 5,000 kW; and

iii) the Customer signs a five year agreement with Maritime Electric as the electricity supplier for the total load for the Customer's account at the site.
The declining discounts are:

Year
$/kW-month
Year
$/kW-month
1
$4.97
4
$1.99
2
$3.97
5
$1.00
3
$2.98
6
$0.00

The declining discounts are not available for loads that get incentive rate credits or if the Customer is in arrears at the time of application for the declining discount.

Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanism: This rate is subject to the Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanism

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Rate Schedules and Rate Application Guidelines

Large Industrial Rate Schedule - Cont'd

Start-up Rate Large Industrial customers starting new operations or expanding existing operations may request a start-up rate for a period not exceeding six (6) consecutive months.

When the new load is the result of expansion, the customer has the option to request the start-up for the total firm load at that location. The request must be submitted in writing to Maritime Electric.

To qualify, the customer must agree to reduce the load for which the start-up rate applies within ten (10) minutes of a request from Maritime Electric. The reduction will be to a level stipulated by Maritime Electric. Load reductions will normally be requested when the in-province load is expected to exceed Maritime Electric's supply capability.

Maritime Electric estimates the applicable start-up rate and makes retroactive adjustments based on the customer's actual cost per kWh, which is the aggregate of demand and energy charges, established during the six month period following the start-up period.

The start-up rate will be calculated so that the resulting cost to the customer is the higher of:

  • 7.39¢ per kWh, or
  • Customer's lowest monthly aggregate cost per kWh in the six months following the start-up period.
The start-up rate period may be extended up to five years for new facilities having a firm load of 5,000 kilowatts or more that are served directly off the transmission system and that Maritime Electric considers to be a new industrial technology. This provision expires on March 31, 2008. In such cases, the firm load of the Customer will not be subject to interruption and the cost of the new firm load will be the lower of (i) Customers actual cost based on usage and applicable rates, or (ii) 6.98¢ per kWh.

Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanism: This rate is subject to the Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanism