Understanding Your Power Bill
Monthly bills include three basic components: customer charge, energy charge, and the fuel and purchased power charge. For certain large commercial customers there is also a demand charge.
The customer charge is a flat monthly charge which collects the cost of meter depreciation, meter reading expense, and the cost of billing and collection activities.
The energy charge , which is billed on a kilowatt-hour basis, collects the cost of generating and distributing electricity other than the fuel and purchased power cost.
The Cost of Power, collects the actual cost of fuel and hydro to generate a kilowatt-hour of electrical energy. It appears as a line item on your monthly bill. The cost of power reflects price changes in fuel and hydro from the Solomon Gulch Hydroelectric Project.
TheCost of Power is billed on a per-kilowatt-hour basis and is charged uniformly to all customers regardless of which rate class they may fall in.
CVEA does not collect a margin on fuel and purchased power cost.
In addition to the foregoing charges, large commercial customers may also pay a demand charge which is assessed based on the metered monthly kilowatt demand for that particular customer.
If you have more questions, please call either office at 822-3211 or 835-4301.
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