Electrical Service - Commercial Customers

Availability
This rate shall apply to the firm power requirements (where a customer's contract demand is 5,000 kW or less) for electric service to commercial, industrial, and governmental customers, and to institutional customers including without limitation, churches, clubs, fraternities, orphanages, nursing homes, rooming or boarding houses and like customers. This rate shall also apply to customers to whom service is not available under any other resale rate schedule.

Character of Service
Alternating current, single-or three-phase, 60 hertz. Power shall be delivered at a service voltage available in the vicinity or agreed to by Newport Utilities Board.

Base Charges
Customer Charge: A flat charge billed each month to recover the cost NU incurs whether power is consumed or not. This includes items such as a pole, transformer, service line, meter, and monthly bill.

Energy Charge: The per kwh charged for each kwh consumed. The fuel charges each month. TVA determines what the fuel costs are each month and provides this information to BU so that we can update the Energy and Fuel Charge accordingly prior to NU calculating your bill. FCA Rate History

Adjustment
The base demand and energy charges shall be increased or decreased in accordance with the current Adjustment Addendum published by TVA. (In addition, such charges shall be increased or decreased to correspond to increases or decreases determined by TVA in the value of the hydro generation benefit allocated to residential customers.)
Determination of Demand: Newport Utilities shall meter the demands in kW of all customers having loads in excess of 50 kW. The metered demand for any month shall be the highest average during any 30-consecutive minute period of the month of the load metered in kW. The measured demand for any month shall be the higher of the highest average during any 30-consecutive minute period of the month of (a) the load metered in kW or (b) 85% of the load in kva plus an additional 10% for that part of the load over 5,000 kVa, and such measured demand shall be used as the billing demand, except that the billing demand for any month shall in no case be less than 30% of the higher of the currently effective contract demand or the highest billing demand established during the preceding 12 months.

Minimum Bill
The monthly bill under this rate schedule shall not be less than the sum of (a) the base customer charge, (b) the base demand charge, as adjusted, applied to the customer's billing demand, and (c) the base energy charge, as adjusted, applied to the customer's energy takings; provided, however, that, under 2 of the Base Charges, the monthly bill shall in no event be less than the sum of (a) the base customer charge and (b) 20% of the portion of the base demand charge, as adjusted, applicable to the second block (excess over 50 kW) of billing demand, multiplied by the higher of the customer's currently effective contract demand or its highest billing demand established during the preceding
12 month. The Newport Utilities Board may require minimum bills higher than those stated above.

Seasonal Service
Customers who contract for service on a seasonal basis shall be limited to 2,500 KW and shall pay the following charges:

(1) If (a) the higher of (i) the customer's currently effective contract demand, if any, or (ii) its highest billing demand during the latest 12-month period is not more than 50 kW and (b) customer's monthly energy takings for any month during such period do not exceed 15, 000 kWh