Rates
In this section you can find all rates for Arizona and New Mexico.
New Mexico
Available for single-family houses, individual apartments, or separate living quarters ordinarily designated and recognized as single-family living quarters for primary domestic or home use and for livestock water pumping. Service under this schedule is not available for multiple unit trailer parks, commercial, professional, or business establishments within the utility's service area, subject to established rules and regulations. The capacity of individual motors served under this schedule shall not exceed 10 HP.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$20.00 (System Charge) |
|
Energy Charge |
11.507 cents/kWh |
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses, and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.550 NMAC. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Debt Cost Adjustment
Billings under this schedule shall be increased or decreased by the change in the current debt cost from the debt cost utilized in establishing the present rates, in accordance with NMPRC Rule No. 540.11. This is reflected on the bill as DSA RATE.
Governmental Net Metering
Available to federal, state or local governmental entities that have submitted an Interconnection Application for a qualifying Net Metering Facility and that demonstrate an inability to execute the mutual indemnification language required by the Cooperative pursuant to provisions in the New Mexico Interconnections Standards Manual and New Mexico Public Regulation Commission Rule 17.9.568 NMAC. Customers participating in this rate must demonstrate their inability pursuant to applicable statue of law to agree to fully indemnify the Cooperative from any and all liability that may result from the negligence or international act of the Customer in relation to the interconnections
Monthly Rate
Customers shall be billed for service in accordance with the applicable rate structure and monthly charges that would apply to the Customer if the Customer had not interconnected a net metering facility with the Cooperative.
Consumed kWh greater than Generated kWh
Energy Charge: The member will be charged the monthly rate on the net kWh consumed, including all applicable adjustments and taxes, set forth in the tariff under which the participating customer is presently served.
Generated kWh greater than Consumed kWh
Energy Charge: The member will be credited for excess kilowatt-hours generated at the utility's avoided cost for interconnections greater than 25KVA. The customer charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses and other administrative costs.
Available to consumers located within the utility's service area, requiring transformer capacity in excess of 2,000 KVA but not more than 3,000 KVA, for all types of usage, subject to the established rules and regulations.
Standard Monthly Rate
| Customer Charge | $800 (System Charge) |
| Demand Charge | $19.50/KW |
| Energy Charge | 9.722 cents/kWh |
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operations and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses, and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.080502/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases and decreases, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.550. NMAC.
Debt Cost Adjustment
Billings under this schedule shall be increased or decreased by the change in the current debt cost from the debt cost utilized in establishing the present rates, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.540 NMAC.
Available to all grid tied residential and small commercial consumers within the utility's service area, limited to the amount of renewable resources available.
Monthly Rate
- The monthly rate, including all applicable adjustments, set forth in the tariff under which the participating customer is presently served will apply, in addition to:
- A renewable power premium (added charge) for all renewable power contracted for by the consumer. The renewable power shall be purchased in 100 kWh blocks; the monthly premium for each 100 kWh block shall be the current rate* charged to the utility from the utilities wholesale power supplier for each 100 kWh block.
Available for commercial and industrial service requiring installed transformer capacity of 50 KVA or less, for all uses within the utility's New Mexico service area, subject to the established rules and regulations. Customer's peak must be less than 50kW for at least 11 months during the previous 12 months. Should the customer's demand exceed this 50kW requirement for two months in a continuous 12 month period, the service will be transferred to the Large Commercial Rate. The Cooperative reserves the right to install metering equipment to determine if this provision applies.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$35.00 (System Charge) |
|
Energy Charge |
10.821 cents/kWh |
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses, and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.550 NMAC. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Debt Cost Adjustment
Billings under this schedule shall be increased or decreased by the change in the current debt cost from the debt cost utilized in establishing the present rates, in accordance with NMPRC Rule No. 540.11. This is reflected on the bill as DSA RATE.
Available to consumers including existing single-phase consumers located within the utility's New Mexico service area, requiring transformer capacity in excess of 50 KVA, but not more than 350 KVA, for all types of usage.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$360.00 (System Charge) |
|
Demand Charge |
$16.50/KW |
|
Energy Charge |
5.254 cents/kWh |
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.550 NMAC. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Debt Cost Adjustment
Billings under this schedule shall be increased or decreased by the change in the current debt cost from the debt cost utilized in establishing the present rates, in accordance with NMPRC Rule No. 540.11. This is reflected on the bill as DSA RATE.
Available to consumers located within the utility's New Mexico service area, requiring transformer capacity in excess of 350 KVA but not more than 2,000 KVA, for all types of usage.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$600.00 (System Charge) |
|
Demand Charge |
$17.00/KW |
|
Energy Charge |
5.592 cents/kWh |
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses, and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.550 NMAC. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Debt Cost Adjustment
Billings under this schedule shall be increased or decreased by the change in the current debt cost from the debt cost utilized in establishing the present rates, in accordance with NMPRC Rule No. 540.11. This is reflected on the bill as DSA RATE.
Available to irrigation consumers located within the utility's New Mexico service area. This schedule is available ONLY for irrigation pumping installations of not less than 10HP.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$75.00 |
|
Energy Charge |
12.2 cents/kWh |
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses, and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.550 NMAC. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Debt Cost Adjustment
Billings under this schedule shall be increased or decreased by the change in the current debt cost from the debt cost utilized in establishing the present rates, in accordance with NMPRC Rule No. 540.11. This is reflected on the bill as DSA RATE.
Available to consumers with motors of 20 horsepower or greater serving irrigation wells, irrigation machines, tail water pumps, and irrigation booster pumps located within the utility's New Mexico service area, subject to the established rules and regulations.
Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$110.00 (System Charge) |
|
Energy Charge |
10.493 cents/kWh |
This rate shall be applicable upon ten (10) days written notice from the customer, commencing with the first complete billing cycle thereafter.
Minimum Monthly Charge
The monthly minimum charge shall be the customer charge plus an energy charge based on kWh usage assuming a load factor not less than thirty percent (30%). The Fuel and Purchased Power Adjustment shall apply to kWh actually used.
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.550 NMAC. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Debt Cost Adjustment
Billings under this schedule shall be increased or decreased by the change in the current debt cost from the debt cost utilized in establishing the present rates, in accordance with NMPRC Rule No. 540.11. This is reflected on the bill as DSA RATE.
Available to all consumers within the utility's service area.
Rate
|
175 Watt Mercury Vapor Lamps |
$15.25 per month |
|
400 Watt High Pressure Sodium |
$32.45 per month |
|
100 Watt High Pressure Sodium |
$16.25 per month |
Minimum Monthly Rate - at the option of the customer
The monthly minimum charge under this rate shall be the net rate per month as quoted above or as established by contract between the consumer and the utility in accordance with the utility's extension policy.
In lieu of metering each individual lighting service, the utility has assigned a standard kWh usage to each service as follows:
|
175 Watt Mercury Vapor Lamps |
80 kWh per month |
|
400 Watt High Pressure Sodium |
180 kWh per month |
|
100 Watt High Pressure Sodium |
42 kWh per month |
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.04172/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, as approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
View more information on the Lighting Service including Conditions of Service
Available to all grid tied residential and small commercial consumers within the utility's service area, limited to the amount of renewable resources available.
Monthly Rate (I changed the bullet list to numbers instead of letters, is that OK?)
- The monthly rate, including all applicable adjustments, set forth in the tariff under which the participating customer is presently served will apply, in addition to:
- A renewable power premium (added charge) for all renewable power contracted for by the consumer. The renewable power shall be purchased in 100 kWh blocks; the monthly premium for each 100 kWh block shall be the current rate* charged to the utility from the utilities wholesale power supplier for each 100 kWh block.
Net Metering is available to all grid tied consumers within the utility's service area. Members installing renewable electric generation projects at their homes/businesses can meet some or all of their own energy needs. They can further reduce their own energy costs and add energy to Columbus Electric's electric distribution system through net-metering.
Net metering allows homeowners/businesses to receive the full value for the electricity that their renewable energy system produces. The term, net metering, refers to the method of accounting for the electricity production of a renewable energy system. Net metering allows homeowners/businesses with such systems to use any excess electricity they produce to offset their electric bill. As the homeowner's/business’s system produces electricity, the kilowatts are first used for any electric load in the home/business. If more electricity is produced from the system than is needed by the homeowner/business, the extra kilowatts are fed into the utility grid.
At the end of the month, if a member has generated more electricity than they used the utility will credit the customer for the excess kilowatt-hours generated at the utility's avoided cost. If the member uses more electricity than they generate, they pay for the difference at the established rate pursuant to 17.9.570 NMAC.
Monthly Rate
Customer Charge: An additional $5 will be added to the monthly customer charge set forth in the tariff under which the participating member is presently served.
Consumed kWh greater than Generated kWh
Energy Charge: The member will be charged the monthly rate on the net kWh consumed, including all applicable adjustments and taxes, set forth in the tariff under which the participating customer is presently served.
Generated kWh greater than Consumed kWh
Energy Charge: The member will be credited for the excess kilowatt-hours generated at the utility's avoided cost. The customer charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.550 NMAC. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Debt Cost Adjustment
Billings under this schedule shall be increased or decreased by the change in the current debt cost from the debt cost utilized in establishing the present rates, in accordance with NMPRC Rule No. 540.11. This is reflected on the bill as DSA RATE.
- NMAC 17.9.568 (link is external)
- NMAC 17.9.569 (link is external)
- NMAC 17.9.570 (link is external)
- Application for Qualifying Facilities 10kW Or Less (link is external)
- Interconnection Agreement for Qualifying Facilities 10kW or less (link is external)
- Application for Qualifying Facilities Greater than 10kW (link is external)
- Interconnection Agreement for Qualifying Facilities Greater than 10kW
- Net Metering Service
Arizona
Available for single-family houses, individual apartments, or separate living quarters ordinarily designated and recognized as single-family living quarters for primary domestic or home use and for livestock water pumping. Service under this Schedule is not available for multiple unit trailer parks, commercial, professional or business establishments within the utility's Arizona service area. The capacity of individual motors served under this schedule shall not exceed 10 HP.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$20.00 (System Charge) |
|
Energy Charge |
11.507 cents/kWh |
|
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses and other administrative costs. |
|
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, as approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Available for commercial and industrial service requiring installed transformer capacity of 50 KVA or less, for all uses within the utility's Arizona service area.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$35.00 (System Charge) |
|
Energy Charge |
10.821 cents/kWh |
|
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses and other administrative costs. |
|
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, as approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
View more information on the Small Commercial Service Rates.
Available to consumers including existing single-phase consumers located within the utility's Arizona service area. This requires transformer capacity in excess of 50 KVA, but not more than 350 KVA, for all types of usage.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$360.00 (System Charge) |
|
Demand Charge |
$16.50/kWh |
|
Energy Charge |
5.254 cents/kWh |
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, as approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Available to consumers including existing single-phase consumers located within the utility's Arizona service area. This requires transformer capacity in excess of 350 KVA but not more than 2,000 KVA, for all types of usage.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$600.00 (System Charge) |
|
Demand Charge |
$17.00/kWh |
|
Energy Charge |
5.592 cents/kWh |
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, as approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Available to irrigation consumers located within the utility's Arizona service area.
Standard Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$75.00 (System Charge) |
|
Energy Charge |
12.20 cents/kWh |
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, as approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Available to consumers with motors of 20 horsepower or greater serving irrigation wells, irrigation machines, tail water pumps, and irrigation booster pumps, located within the utility's Arizona service area.
Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
$110.00 (System Charge) |
|
Energy Charge |
10.493 cents/kWh |
This rate shall be applicable upon thirty (30) days written notice from the customer, commencing with the first complete billing cycle thereafter. The rate is subject to termination upon thirty (30) days notice by the customer.
Minimum Monthly Charge
The monthly minimum charge shall be the customer charge plus an energy charge based on kWh usage assuming a load factor not less than thirty percent (30%). The Fuel and Purchased Power Adjustment shall apply to kWh actually used.
The system charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.078510/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, as approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
Available to all consumers within the utility's service area.
Rate
|
175 Watt Mercury Vapor Lamps |
$15.25 per month |
|
400 Watt High Pressure Sodium |
$32.45 per month |
|
100 Watt High Pressure Sodium |
$16.25 per month |
Minimum Monthly Rate - at the option of the customer
The monthly minimum charge under this rate shall be the net rate per month as quoted above or as established by contract between the consumer and the utility in accordance with the utility's extension policy.
In lieu of metering each individual lighting service, the utility has assigned a standard kWh usage to each service as follows:
|
175 Watt Mercury Vapor Lamps |
80 kWh per month |
|
400 Watt High Pressure Sodium |
180 kWh per month |
|
100 Watt High Pressure Sodium |
42 kWh per month |
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.04172/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, as approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.
View more information on the Lighting Service including Conditions of Service.
Available to all grid tied residential and small commercial consumers within the utility's service area, limited to the amount of renewable resources available.
Monthly Rate
- The monthly rate, including all applicable adjustments, set forth in the tariff under which the participating customer is presently served will apply, in addition to:
- A renewable power premium (added charge) for all renewable power contracted for by the consumer. The renewable power shall be purchased in 100 kWh blocks; the monthly premium for each 100 kWh block shall be the current rate* charged to the utility from the utilities wholesale power supplier for each 100 kWh block.
Net Metering is available to all grid tied consumers within the utility's service area.
Members installing renewable electric generation projects at their homes/businesses can meet some or all of their own energy needs. They can further reduce their own energy costs and add energy to Columbus Electric's electric distribution system through net-metering.
Net metering allows homeowners/businesses to receive the full value for the electricity that their renewable energy system produces. The term, net metering, refers to the method of accounting for the electricity production of a renewable energy system. Net metering allows homeowners/businesses with such systems to use any excess electricity they produce to offset their electric bill. As the homeowner's/business’s system produces electricity, the kilowatts are first used for any electric load in the home/business. If more electricity is produced from the system than is needed by the homeowner/business, the extra kilowatts are fed into the utility grid.
At the end of the month, if a member has generated more electricity than they used, the utility will credit the customer for the net kilowatt-hours of energy supplied to the utility. Unused credits will be carried forward to the next billing period and will be used to reduce the kilowatt-hours supplied and billed by the Cooperative during the following billing period. Excess kilowatt-hours generated will be rolled from month to month. Each September, or when the account is closed, any unused credits for excess kilowatt-hours generated will be paid to the member at the utility's avoided cost of $0.02735. If the member uses more electricity than they generate, they pay for the difference at the established rate.
Monthly Rate
|
Customer Charge |
The monthly customer charge set forth in the tariff under which the participating member is presently served. |
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Consumed kWh greater than Generated kWh |
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|
Energy Charge |
The member will be charged the rate on the net kWh consumed, including all applicable adjustments and taxes, set forth in the tariff under which the participating customer is presently served. |
|
Generated kWh greater than Consumed kWh |
|
|
Energy Charge |
None |
The customer charge covers costs of providing electric service, including operation and maintenance of facilities, consumer accounting expenses and other administrative costs.
Purchased Power Cost Adjustment (PPCA)
The utility shall, if purchased power expense is increased or decreased above or below the base purchased power cost of $0.04172/kWh sold, flow through to the users such increases or decreases, in accordance with NMPRC Rule 17.9.550 NMAC. This is reflected on the bill as FUEL ADJ RATE.