Electric Rates & Service Charges
CMELD wants customers to understand how their electricity is charged and how your bill is structured.
Electric Rates
REGULAR RESIDENTIAL
Electricity is available under this schedule for all residential purposes in an individual residence or an individual apartment. Electricity is also available for farm use.
Customer Charge: $6.30 per month
Distribution Charge: $.10248 per kWh
Energy Charge: $.0481
Transmission: $.02046
PCA (subject to change): $.06816
RESIDENTIAL / COMMERCIAL FARM
Customer Charge: $9.46 per month
COMMERCIAL
Customer Charge: $10.51 per month
MUNICIPAL LIGHTING
Service is available under this schedule for all municipal street lighting, security lighting, and traffic signal lighting systems within the service territory of CMELD.
Fixed amount.
TEMPORARY SERVICE
Electricity is available under this schedule for temporary service to contractors during construction or renovation to property within the service territory of CMELD.
Customer Charge: $150.00
Service Charges
Return Check Fee $30
Start/Stop Service Administrative Fee $25/each
Temporary Service Fee $150
Meter Relocation Fee $100
Additonal Meter Read Request Fee $25
Shutoff for Non-Payment
Non-payment of Electric Bill will result in your electric service being shut-off. Reconnection will be done ONLY after payment of the full amount due plus a reconnect fee.
Service Reconnection Fee
- If requested during business hours $25/per request
- If requested after business hours $400/per request
Customer Deposit Policy
Average of 3 highest months in most recent two year history – not less than a minimum of $400.00
RATE COMPARISONS
JANUARY 2024
FEBRUARY 2024
MARCH 2024
12-MONTH AVERAGE
APRIL 2023
MAY 2023
JUNE 2023
12-MONTH AVERAGE
OCTOBER 2022
NOVEMBER 2022
DECEMBER 2022
12-MONTH AVERAGE
REGULAR RESIDENTIAL
Availability
Electricity is available under this schedule for all residential purposes in an individual residence or an individual apartment. Electricity is also available hereunder for farm use. Service under this tariff schedule is not available for resale.
Rate – Applied Monthly
Customer Charge: $6.30 per month.
Distribution Charge: $.10248 per kWh
Energy Charge: $.0481
Transmission: $.02046
PCA: $.06816
PROMPT PAYMENT DISCOUNT
The Customer Charge and Distribution Energy Charge will be subject to a discount often percent (5%) if payment is made within fifteen (15) days from the date of the bill, provided there is no bill in arrears.
PASNY CREDIT
Customers served under this tariff are entitled to receive a credit for PASNY power delivered to them under a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. PASNY power is Federal Preference Power received from hydroelectric projects in upstate New York at below the wholesale market cost of power.
Minimum Charge
The minimum charge will be the Customer Charge.
FARM DISCOUNT
Those accounts certified eligible through the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture will receive an additional ten percent (10%) discount.
Terms of Contract
Service may be terminated at any time upon at least 24 hours’ notice to the Light Plant during normal business hours.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The Light Plant’s Terms and Conditions in effect from time to time, where not inconsistent with any specific provisions hereof, are a part of this schedule.
SMALL POWER RATE
MDPU #44
Replaces MDPU #34
Availability
Electricity is available under this schedule for all general service purposes to any single-phase customer with less than 10 kW of demand. If electricity is delivered under this schedule at a specific location, through more than one meter, the COST OF SERVICE shall be computed separately for the electricity delivered through each meter, unless such multiple metering is for the Light Plant’s convenience. Service under this tariff schedule is not available for resale.
Rate – Applied Monthly
Customer Charge: $8.59 per month
Distribution Charge: $0.0467 per kWh
PPA Charge: As per MDPU #40
PROMPT PAYMENT DISCOUNT
The Customer Charge and Distribution Energy Charge will be subject to a discount often percent (10%) if payment is made within fifteen (15) days from the date of the bill, provided there is no bill in arrears.
LATE PAYMENT PENALTY
On accounts twenty-five (25) or more days in arrears, a service charge of one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month will be assessed at the beginning of each month on the gross balance outstanding at the end of the previous month. No discount will be available if any such service charge has been assessed.
Minimum Charge
The minimum charge will be the Customer Charge.
FARM DISCOUNT
Those accounts certified eligible through the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture will receive an additional ten percent (10%) discount.
Terms of Contract
Service may be terminated at any time upon at least 24 hours’ notice to the Light Plant during normal business hours.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The Light Plant’s Terms and Conditions in effect from time to time, where not inconsistent with any specific provisions hereof, are a part of this schedule.
LARGE POWER RATE
MDPU #
Replaces MDPU #24
Availability
Electricity is available under this schedule for all purposes to any customer with greater than 10 kW of demand or for any three-phase customer. If electricity is delivered under this schedule at a specific location, through more than one meter, the COST OF SERVICE shall be computed separately for the electricity delivered through each meter, unless such multiple metering is for the Light Plant’s convenience.
If any electricity is delivered under this schedule at a specific location, then all electricity delivered by the Light Plant at such location shall be billed under this schedule.
Service under this tariff schedule is not available for resale.
Rate – Applied Monthly
Customer Charge: $75.17 per month
Distribution Demand Charge: $13.55
PPA Charge: As per MDPU #40
PROMPT PAYMENT DISCOUNT
The Customer Charge and Distribution Energy Charge will be subject to a discount often percent (10%) if payment is made within fifteen (15) days from the date of the bill, provided there is no bill in arrears.
LATE PAYMENT PENALTY
On accounts twenty-five (25) or more days in arrears, a service charge of one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month will be assessed at the beginning of each month on the gross balance outstanding at the end of the previous month. No discount will be available if any such service charge has been assessed.
Minimum Charge
The minimum charge will be the Customer Charge.
Terms of Contract
Service may be terminated at any time upon at least 24 hours’ notice to the Light Plant during normal business hours.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The Light Plant’s Terms and Conditions in effect from time to time, where not inconsistent with any specific provisions hereof, are a part of this schedule.
MUNICIPAL POWER RATE
MDPU #46
Replaces MDPU #36
Availability
Electricity is available under this schedule for all municipal facilities other than street lighting, security lighting, and traffic signal systems within the service territory of the Hull Municipal Light Plant. Service under this tariff schedule is not available for resale.
Rate – Applied Monthly
Customer Charge: $5.85 per month
Distribution Charge: $0.0461 per kWh
PPA Charge: As per MDPU #40
PROMPT PAYMENT DISCOUNT
The Customer Charge and Distribution Energy Charge will be subject to a discount often percent (10%) if payment is made within fifteen (15) days from the date of the bill, provided there is no bill in arrears.
Minimum Charge
The minimum charge will be the Customer Charge.
Terms of Contract
Service may be terminated at any time upon at least 24 hours’ notice to the Light Plant during normal business hours.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The Light Plant’s Terms and Conditions in effect from time to time, where not inconsistent with any specific provisions hereof, are a part of this schedule.
MUNICIPAL LIGHTING RATE
MDPU #43
Replaces MDPU #33
Availability
Service is available under this schedule for all municipal street lighting, security lighting, and traffic signal lighting systems within the service territory of the Hull Municipal Light Plant. Service under this tariff schedule is not available for resale.
Rate – Applied Monthly
Minimum Charge
The minimum charge will be the Customer Charge.
Terms of Contract
Service may be terminated at any time upon at least 24 hours’ notice to the Light Plant during normal business hours.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The Light Plant’s Terms and Conditions in effect from time to time, where not inconsistent with any specific provisions hereof, are a part of this schedule.
TEMPORARY SERVICE
MDPU #42
Replaces MDPU #32
Availability
Electricity is available under this schedule for temporary service to contractors during construction or renovation to property within the service territory of the Hull Municipal Light Plant. Service under this tariff schedule is not available for resale.
Rate – Applied Monthly
Customer Charge: $19.40 per month.
Distribution Charge: $0.0645 per kWh
PPA Charge: As per MDPU #40
PROMPT PAYMENT DISCOUNT
The Customer Charge and Distribution Energy Charge will be subject to a discount often percent (10%) if payment is made within fifteen (15) days from the date of the bill, provided there is no bill in arrears.
LATE PAYMENT PENALTY
On accounts twenty-five (25) or more days in arrears, a service charge of one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month will be assessed at the beginning of each month on the gross balance outstanding at the end of the previous month. No discount will be available if any such service charge has been assessed.
Minimum Charge
The minimum charge will be the Customer Charge.
Terms of Contract
Service may be terminated at any time upon at least 24 hours’ notice to the Light Plant during normal business hours.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The Light Plant’s Terms and Conditions in effect from time to time, where not inconsistent with any specific provisions hereof, are a part of this schedule.
PURCHASED POWER CHARGE
MDPU #40
APPLICABLE TO
All filed rate schedules referencing this clause.
Rate Charges
The object of the PPC clause is to recover the total cost of power supply including losses.
The “total cost of power supply” is defined as the sum of the fixed and variable costs of power (including fuel and pool interchange net costs), and the cost of transmission of electricity by others, recorded in the FERC Uniform System of Accounts under account numbers; 555 Purchased Power; 557 Other
Purchased Power; and 565 Transmission of Electricity by Others.
There shall be added to each monthly bill, for each schedule, an amount equal to the total kWh billed during the month multiplied by the Purchased Power Charge determined as follows:
PPC = A+C
Where:
PPC = Purchased Power Charge
A = Estimated average cost of purchased power for the calendar year per kilowatt-hour sold as forecast by the Light Plant, net of charges or credits for ISO interchange, plus the total savings credited to Residential customers under the PASNY Power Credit Clause.
C = Adjustment for past differentials between purchased power cost incurred and Power Cost Adjustment revenues collected.