Basic Charges:  The four charges of generation, transmission, distribution, and fixed cost recovery.

Generation Charges: Charge for the production of electric generation.  Generation service is competitively priced, and is not regulated by the P.U.C. Generation prices and charges are set by your cooperative or other electric generation supplier you have chosen.  These charges depend on the terms of service between the customer, and the supplier.

Transmission Charges:  Charges for transmitting electricity from the generation source(s) to your local electric distribution cooperative.  This charge will vary with your source of electric supply, and may be included in your generation charges.

Distribution Charges:  Charges for delivering electricity over your cooperative's electric distribution system to your home or business.  These charges include the costs for billing, remittance processing, member services, outages, maintenance, operations, substations, wires, transformers, etc.

Fixed Cost Recover Charges (FCRC): A charge to recover costs associated with past investment in generation plant, to be applied only during the transition period similar to the CTC charge by investor owned utilities.

Non Basic Charges:  Any category of service not related tot he basic charges explained above.  These charges include security lights, Autoread, new service, and collection fees, etc.

Facilities Charge:  Part of the monthly basic distribution charge to partially cover cost of delivering the electricity to your home.  This amount is the same each month no matter how much electricity you use.

Kilowatt-Hours(kWh): kWh is a measure of electricity.  One kWh equals one thousand watts used for one hour.  If you used one 100-watt bulb for ten hours yo use one kWh.

Price to Compare: Kilowatt-hour price to provide generation, and transmission of electricity.  A member can realize possible savings by acquiring energy from another supplier whose price is lower than the Price to Compare.

Bad Check Charge:  A $20.00 fee will be charged on all checks returned from the bank.

Meter Reading Fee:  A $25.00 meter reading fee will be charged to members who do not read their meter two months in a row.  Please write down all five digits from your meter on the front of the return stub in the space provided.

Autoread Charge:  A $2.00 monthly fee is charged for those members who wish to have an automated meter reading device installed at their service.

Collection Charge:  A $25.00 collection fee will be charged wen Cooperative employees are sent out to collect past due electric bills.  Please call the office to make arrangements on past due bills.

Disconnection Charges:  If your account is disconnected for non-payment, a $35.00 reconnection charge will be required before your account can be connected.  If on overtime, the fee for reconnection will be $150.00

*No Reconnections after 8:00 P.M.