Small Business Electric Rates

Glendale Water & Power offers four (4) rate schedules for our SMALL Business Electric Customers under the L-2 rate class:

1. L-2-A Standard Service Rate
2. L-2-B Time-of-Use Service Rate
3. L-2-C Customer-Owned-Generation Standard
4. L-2-D Customer-Owned-Generation-Time-of-Use

• These rates apply to businesses and other enterprises using less than 5,000 kWh per month without an electric demand meter.
• Customers whose energy use exceeds 5,000 kWh per month for 3 months during one year will be billed under Small/Medium Business Demand Electric Rates (Schedule LD-2).
• Some single family residences such as large homes, and multi-family mastered-metered apartment buildings, and condominium complexes are billed under this rate if the monthly usage exceeds 5,000 kWh more than 3 times per year.

L-2-A Standard Service Rate

• This is the rate Glendale Water & Power uses for standard small business electric services. This is the rate your business account will be billed under unless you choose the time-of-use rate.
• Usage should not exceed 5,000 kWh per month more than 3 times per year.
• Accounts on the L-2 rate exceeding 5,000 kWh more than 3 times per year will be subjected to a rate change as appropriate.
• Time-of-Use option is available, but demand should not exceed 20 kW per billing cycle. Most accounts on this rate are billed bimonthly.
• • Customer Charge - per meter per day$0.5000
  • Energy Charges - per kWh
    • July through October
      • Any Time$0.1050
    • November through June
      • Any Time$0.0850
  • Fuel Adjustment Charge - per kWh$0.0448
  • Public Benefit Charge3.6%

L-2-B Time-of-Use Service Rate

• The time-of-use (TOU) rate gives you the advantage of lower electric rates during the night and early morning hours, weekends, and the winter months.
• The high-season rate is used for meters read monthly during the months of July through October. The low season rate is used for meters read monthly during the months of November through June.
• This rate option will require a meter change. There will be no GWP charge for the installation of the new meter. However, if the electric panel for your service does not accommodate a socket meter, you will need to hire an electrician to upgrade the panel. Our Electric Meter Shop personnel will be able to evaluate this for you.
• Master-metered multiple-family apartments may choose this time-of-use rate if their usage is under the 5,000 kWh per month requirement. How do you know if you should consider TOU rates? If you can arrange your electric usage patterns in such a way that a majority of your electric usage occurs during the lower rate, or if your present usage pattern is structured in that manner, then this rate may be the appropriate choice.
• • Customer Charge - per meter per day$1.0800
  • Energy Charges - per kWh
    • July through October
      • Base Period$0.0850
      • Peak Period$0.1050
    • November through June
      • Base Period$0.0550
      • Peak Period$0.0850
  • Fuel Adjustment Charge - per kWh$0.0448
  • Public Benefit Charge3.6%

How do you know if you should consider TOU rates?

If you can arrange your electric usage patterns in such a way that a majority of your electric usage occurs during the lower rate, or if your present usage pattern is structured in that manner, then this rate may be the appropriate choice.

Customer Owned Generation

Rates L-2-C (Customer-Owned-Generation-Standard) and L-2-C (Customer-Owned Generation-Time-of-Use) are available to customers who own and operate photovoltaic or wind powered electric generation systems and who are otherwise eligible and remain eligible for rate L-2-A or L-2-B. These customers must sign an interconnection agreement with Glendale Water & Power (GWP) and pay for all required metering interconnection equipment which is in addition to that required for standard service. Participation in this rate is on a first-come-first served basis until the time that the total rated generating capacity used by eligible customer generators in all customer classes exceeds 2.5 percent of GWP's aggregate customer peak demand.

L-2-C Customer-Owned-Generation Standard

L-2-D Customer-Owned-Generation-Time-of-Use

Excess Energy Credit

For all Customer-Owned-Generation rates, GWP will determine for each billing period the energy generated and the energy used. In any billing period where the energy used exceeds the energy generated on the Customer-Generator's premise, the Customer-Generator will be billed for the net energy used. In the event energy generated by the facility exceeds the energy used on the Customer-Generator's premise during any billing period, the amount of the net excess energy will be credited against the Customer-Generator's energy usage in the next billing period. At the end of each 12-month period, where the electricity generated by the eligible customer-generator during the 12-month period exceeds the electricity supplied by the electric service provider during that same period, the eligible customer-generator is a net electricity producer and the electric service provider shall retain any excess kilowatt hours generated during the prior 12month period. The eligible customer-generator shall not be owed any compensation for those excess kilowatt hours unless the electric service provider enters into a purchase agreement with the eligible customer-generator for those excess kilowatt hours. GWP reserves the right to pay the Customer-Generator for such excess kilowatt hours at the current fuel adjustment charge rate.