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Home My WebLink About1294ORDINANCE NO. be/Y AN ORDINANCE relating to the sale of electrical energy by the manic- monthly ipal Light and Power System of the City of Port Angeles; prescribing/rates, terms and conditions of the sale of such energy and the furnishing of electrical service, amending Ordinance No. 890 of the City of Port Angeles and repealing curtain ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT ANGELES DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That Section 17 of Ordinance No. 890 as amended by Ord- inance No 1247 of the City of Port Angeles be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Schedule 1. Commercial and residential water heating: AVAIL- ABILITY CLAUSE: This service shall be off -peak, single phase at a nominal potential of 120/240 volts and is available for a maximum of 18 hours per day. - The City will furnish, connect to the customer's wiring and re- tain ownership of a suitable control device to regulate the hours of use. Installations over 4800 watts shall be equipped with a suit- able relay furnished by the customer. This service shall be metered on a circuit which shall include all the heaters for one or more storage tanks but exclude all other services. Service under this schedule may be limited to 6,000 watts capacity at the City's option. The following are the maximum allowable capac- ities for tank heaters: 30 gallon tank-or smaller, 75 watts per gallon 40 gallon tank, 62.5 watts per gallon over 40 gallon tank, 60.0 watts per gallon. Heating elements shall be non - inductive and installations in excess of 1250 watts shall consist of two elements, each to be protected by a thermostat, the base thermostat shall be set to maintain water not hotter than 170 degrees and the top thermostat to maintain water not hotter than 150 degrees Farenheit. One element shall be placed to heat the whole tank and the other to heat the upper part of the tank. The capacity of the upper element shall not exceed twice that of the lower element. To provide adequate and economical hot water service for the customer, the tank, and heater if external, shall be covered with sufficient heat insulation as approved by the City. Each installation shall be provided with a pressure - relief valve that will properly protect the tank and piping from excessive pressure. All installations shall be provided with a check -valve that will prevent the hot water from entering the cold water line and prevent drainage of the hot water tank in case the water supply should fail. Other methods of heating the water shall not be directly con- nected to the insulated storage tank. RATE: 8 Mills per Kilowatt Hour Minimum charge of $1.00 per month. Schedule 2. Residential Service. This schedule covers general residentail lighting, heating, cooking and uncontrolled water heating. Minimum charge First 80 KWH Next 120 KWH All over 200 KWH $ 1.00 where no electric space heating is installed 30 per KWH 20 per KWH 1¢ per KWH Wesix Heat Control or equal, furnished by the customer, must be installed on all new installations using Electric Heat, and the min- imum shall be $7.00 per month. Schedule 3. Optional all electric residential lighting, cooking and water heating rate available only to single family residence where premises are wired for water heating peak limiting control. No electric space heating permitted under this schedule. Water heating equipment shall meet the specifications of Schedule 1 herein, but limited to a minim,m, size of 40 gallons per residence. Minimum charge First 400 KWH Next 600 KWH Excess Schedule 4. $ 5.00 1.25f Per KWH .84 Per KWH 10 Per KWH COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL Minimum charge Demand Charge First 250 KWH Next 500 KWH Next 1250 KWH Next 8000 KWH Excess KWH $ 1.00 75¢ per KW of demand in excess of 10 KW 3 ¢ per KWH 2 ¢ Per KWH 1.5 ¢ per KWH 1 $ per KWH .7 ¢ per KWH LOAD FACTOR DISCOUNT A discount of 50% of the energy charge otherwise applicable shall be allowed for all Kilowatt Hours used in excess of 360 times the measured demand. No rate or charge shall be made, allowed, charged, billed or paid which shall yield to the City an average return of less than 8 mills per kilowatt hour for electrical energy furnished under this schedule until such time as the City shall obtain its electrical energy require- ments directly from Bonneville Power Administration. On loads in excess of 100 Horsepower the City reserves the right to meter at primary voltage under this schedule. An additional discount of 5% from gross billing will be granted to customers owning and maintaining substations and associated equipment for their exclusive use and taking energy at primary distribution voltage. Customers are required to maintain a power factor of 95% or better. The superintendent may, at his discretion, when any inductive load causes unsatisfactory conditions on the City's system, install reactive Kilovolt- ampere -hour meters and adjust the registered maximum demand for calculating the bill as follows: If the average power factor at which electric energy is delivered to the consumer during the billing period is 0.85 or more, no adjust- ment will be made in the registered KW demand. If such average power factor is less than 0.85, then the registered KW demand shall be adjusted by multiplying by 0.95 and dividing the result by the average power factor. Unless specifically otherwise agreed, the City shall not be obli- gated to deliver electric energy to the consumer at any time at a power factor below 0.75. The average power factor is determined as follows: Average Power Kilowatt -hours Factor ( lowatt- hours)2 +(Reactive Kilovolt ampere- hours)2 The meter for measurement of reactive Kilovolt- ampere -hours shall be ratcheted to prevent reverse registration. The billing demand used may be either a fifteen minute registered demand *estimated demand or a computed demand. The registered demand shall be the demand occurring within a fifteen minute interval on appropriate and customary measuring device(s) installed by the City. The estimated demand may be a quantity otherwise determined by test or inspection of the premises served. The computed demand may be determined by the division of monthly Kilowatt hours used divided by operating hours. All such demands may be adjusted for power factor conditions pre- vailing as determined by the City. This schedule is based on a single delivery voltage of either single or three phase at 120, 120/240, 440 or primary voltage. Add- itional services shall be seperately metered and billed. Schedule 5. STREET LIGHTING SERVICE The rate for the City of Port Angeles Street Lighting shall be two cents per kilowatt hour, which rate shall include all necessary electrical energy and complete maintenance of the street lighting system. All other municipal service shall be charged for at the rate or rates applicable for similar private service. Churches may be billed at residential rates with all options available to residential customers. Special contracts may be entered into on a guaranteed revenue basis but such contracts shall be subject to approval of the City Council if the term thereof exceeds five years. Section 2. That Ordinances No. 913 passed October 1, 1930, No. 977 passed July 27, 1932, No. 1138 passed July 18, 1945, and No. 1247 passed April 30, 1951 and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances of the City of Port Angeles in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect five days from and after its passage and lawful publication. • :rte Approved as to form: Introduced �,��,� /2 ,1953 PASSED 2n / 2 ,1953 APPROVED AND SIGNED BY THE MAYOR ,1953 MAYOR