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Emergency Phone: 715-394-2200
Digger's Hotline: 800-242-8511
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Superior Water, Light and Power Company provides electricity within the City of Superior and six other communities within Douglas County, Wisconsin. By purchasing electricity at wholesale from Minnesota Power, a division of our parent company ALLETE, Inc., we are able to combine reliable service with rates that are among the overall lowest in the state of Wisconsin.
This site will try to explain certain items about common electric rates, but please note all applicable rate schedules and special rules and regulations that may apply are described in detail in our rate book.
While not applicable for all electric rates schedules, below are some common terms that may be
within some rate schedules depending on your circumstances.
On-Peak Hours: 9 A.M. - 9 P.M., Monday through Friday, inclusive, excluding holidays.
Off-Peak Hours: Those hours not designated as on-peak hours.
Holidays: Those days nationally designated and celebrated as New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Winter Period: The winter period is designated as the November, December, January and February billing months. All other months of the year are considered to be in the summer period for billing purposes (March through October).
To electric service for residential customers in single-family dwellings for all domestic uses
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $7.00MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge
To electric service for residential customers in single-family dwellings for all domestic uses who are eligible for ER1 service. This voluntary experimental rate is available to the first 20 customers contracting for service. Customers are required to remain on this rate for 12 months and may be removed from this rate upon their request.
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $7.00
ENERGY CHARGE: **$0.10340 per kWh (All On-Peak @ Winter Months)
**$0.11325 per kWh (All On-Peak @ Summer Months)
**$0.03611 per kWh (All Off-Peak)
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge
To customers taking electric service for the purpose of heating water in non-inductive automatic electric water heaters installed in accordance with the Company’s specifications
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $3.50 for single-phase metered service
$5.00 for three-phase metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **$0.0503 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge
To customers taking electric service for the purpose of space heating where a non-electric source of energy shall be available to satisfy those requirements during periods of interruption. Service shall be delivered at one point and be separately metered from all non-space heating load. Available to customers who would otherwise be served under Rate Schedule ER1 or EC1
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $3.50 for single-phase metered service
$5.00 for three-phase metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **$0.0503 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge
To all electric service supplied to any residential, commercial or industrial customer for lighting, power and other purposes with metered loads not to exceed 25 kW
Not applicable for standby, resale or shared service.
Customers served under this schedule with a metered load of more than 25 kW during any three months
of the past 12 consecutive months shall be billed under Rate Schedule EC3.
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $8.00 for single-phase metered service
$13.00 for three-phase metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **$0.0799 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge
To all electric service supplied to any residential, commercial or industrial customer for lighting, power
and other purposes, with metered loads greater than 25 kW but less than 500 kW
Not applicable for stand-by, resale or shared service.
Customers served under this schedule whose maximum 15-minute demand has exceeded 500 kW
during any of the past 12 consecutive months shall be billed under Schedule EC5.
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $14.00 for single-phase metered service
$25.00 for three-phase metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **$0.0467 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
DEMAND CHARGE: sum of the following:
Current month billed demand @ $7.00 per kW
Highest annual demand in excess of the current month billed demand @ $1.80 per kW.
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge plus the Demand Charges
Service under this rate schedule is mandatory for all customers having demands of 500 kW or greater and who take service at less than nominally 13,800 volts phase to phase. Customers will not be removed from this rate schedule unless their 15-minute demand remains below 500 kW for 12 consecutive months
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $150.00 for each metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **
All On-Peak kWh
Winter Months $0.0567 per kWh
Summer Months $0.0531 per kWh
All Off-Peak kWh
Annually $0.0310 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
DEMAND CHARGE: sum of the following:
Current month billed demand @
Winter Months $9.00 per kW
Summer Months $8.25 per kW
Highest annual demand in excess of the current month billed demand @ $1.80 per kW.
MINIMUM CHARGE Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge plus the Demand Charges
To all electric service supplied to any commercial or industrial customer for lighting, power and other purposes.
Service will be supplied under this schedule only at points on the Company’s existing primary voltage distribution system (nominally 13,800 volts phase to phase) except where, in the Company’s judgment, the size of the load to be served warrants the extension of the primary voltage distribution system.
Not applicable for stand-by, resale or shared service.
Customers served under this schedule whose maximum 15-minute demand has exceeded 500 kW during any of the past 12 consecutive months shall be billed under Schedule EP3.
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $50.00 for each metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **$0.0457 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
DEMAND CHARGE: sum of the following:
Current month billed demand @ $6.86 per kW
Highest annual demand in excess of the current month billed demand @ $1.76 per kW.
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge plus the Demand Charges
To any commercial or industrial customer for lighting, power and other purposes with demand loads in excess of 500 kW. Service will be supplied under this schedule only at points on the Company’s existing primary voltage distribution system (nominally 13,800 volts phase to phase) except where, in the Company’s judgment, the size of the load to be served warrants the extension of the primary voltage distribution system.
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $140.00 for each metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **
All On-Peak kWh
Winter Months $0.0556 per kWh
Summer Months $0.0520 per kWh
All Off-Peak kWh
Annually $0.0304 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
DEMAND CHARGE: sum of the following:
Current month billed demand @
Winter Months $8.25 per kW
Summer Months $7.75 per kW
Highest annual demand in excess of the current month billed demand @ $1.60 per kW.
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge plus the Demand Charges
To any commercial or industrial customer for lighting, power and other purposes who meet at least one of the following conditions:
1) Take service in Washburn County.
2) Monthly metered loads greater than 10,000 kW for 6 of the last 12 months.
Exceptions may be made for customers with loads less than 10,000 kW if:
1) They require service from the Company’s transmission system in order to mitigate problems in the distribution system; and/or
2) They are at unreasonable distance from any primary distribution facilities and adjacent to the Company’s transmission facilities of nominally 115,000 volts or 161,000 volts phase to phase.
Service will be supplied under this schedule only at points on Company’s transmission voltage system (nominally 115,000 volts or 161,000 volts phase to phase) where, in Company’s judgment, the size of the load to be served warrants the extension of the transmission voltage system.
Not applicable for stand-by, resale or shared service.
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $500.00 for each metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **
All On-Peak kWh
Winter Months $0.0519 per kWh
Summer Months $0.0491 per kWh
All Off-Peak kWh
Annually $0.0294 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
DEMAND CHARGE: sum of the following:
Current month billed demand @
Winter Months $8.15 per kW
Summer Months $7.70 per kW
Highest annual demand in excess of the current month billed demand @ $2.10 per kW.
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge plus the Demand Charges
Available to any retail customer served under Rate Schedules EP1, EP3 and EP5 who agrees that service under this rider may be interrupted by the Company at any time. However, availability may be limited at the discretion of the Company. Service under this rider may be refused if the Company believes the load to be interrupted will not provide adequate load reduction when the Company desires interruption.
In addition to the normal firm billing, the following rate for the interruptible load shall be billed.
| Primary Distribution Voltage | Transmission Voltage | |
|---|---|---|
| CUSTOMER CHARGE: | $275.00 | $1,000.00 |
| ENERGY CHARGE: ** | ||
| All On-Peak kWh | $0.0503 | $0.0519 |
| All Off-Peak kWh | $0.0304 | $0.0294 |
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
DEMAND CHARGE: sum of the following:
Highest Annual Demand
Primary (EP3) $2.00
Transmission (EP5) $1.98
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge plus the Demand Charges or contract minimum, whichever is greater.
To street, ornamental and signal lighting service supplied in accordance with the provisions of the Company’s contract for such service.
CUSTOMER CHARGE:
Overhead Street Lighting $63.00 Annual per lamp
Ornamental and Street Lighting $11.00 per month for each metered service
Signal Lighting $27.00 per month for each metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **$0.0550 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge plus the Demand Charges
LIGHTING - NIGHT WATCH (EN1)
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $6.00 per month per lamp.
ENERGY CHARGE: **$0.0550 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
ADDITIONAL FACILITIES CHARGE: $5.00 per month per pole used for this service only.
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge plus the Demand Charges
LIGHTING - SPORTS FIELD (EZ1)
CUSTOMER CHARGE: $10.00 for each metered service
ENERGY CHARGE: **$0.0860 per kWh
**Base Charge - Subject to Purchased Power Adjustment Clause (PCAC) - Positive or negative amount indicated as PCAC on your Billing Statement.
(See PCAC Factors for most recent rate factors)
MINIMUM CHARGE (Monthly)
The applicable Customer Charge