A monthly charge to cover such local distribution company costs as maintaining lines, meter reading and billing.
A fixed amount to be paid without regard to instantaneous demand or total energy used in the month. In theory the customer charge should cover costs directly related to serving a customer regardless of sales volume. Some costs included are meter costs, meter reading, yard lines and pressure regulators (for gas), transformers and service drops (for electric), maintenance of meters, regulators, transformers and service drops, billing, customer service, etc. In reality, the customer charge does not cover all of these costs, so the remainder is included in the delivery charge.
An amount to be paid for energy periodically by a customer without regard to demand or energy consumption.
Monthly connection fee assessed by local utility.
The minimum bill or base rate, included on each statement. The revenue collected from this charge pays for utility expenses not directly related to the generation or delivery of electricity or gas, such as billing, meter reading, equipment, administration and customer care. If you receive both electric and gas service from CoServ you will be required to pay two customer charges.
Many rates have a monthly or daily charge that customers pay, whether they use energy or not. Different utilities will call it customer charge, monthly charge, facilities charge, service charge, etc.
A flat monthly charge payable regardless of the level of usage of the customer.
A basic part of the monthly electric distribution charge to cover costs for expenses not directly associated with the generation or distribution of energy, such as billing, meter reading, service line maintenance and equipment. This charge is independent of energy usage.
A fixed amount paid monthly by the customer
Part of the monthly basic distribution charge to partially cover costs for billing, meter reading, equipment, service line maintenance and equipment. This charge is the same no matter how much electricity you use.
Recovers costs associated with making service available to a customer, such as installing and maintaining meters, utility poles, power lines and equipment, as well as meter reading and PSNH's 24-hour customer service center.
A fixed charge on a utility bill to cover the costs incurred by a utility in providing service regardless of whether the customer has used any commodity. (Costs of providing and maintaining service lines, wires, pipes, and poles; providing and reading a meter, printing a bill, etc.) Also known as a service charge, facilities charge or a meter charge.
An amount to be paid periodically by a customer for electric service based upon costs incurred for metering, meter reading, billings, etc., exclusive of demand or energy consumption. MGE bills out the customer charges in dollars per day.
Monthly fixed fee to cover costs of billing, administration, and customer care. This is also called the Base Customer Charge.
A recurring charge for the basic administrative activities associated with a utility maintaining a customer account. Typically, these activities include billing, metering, and meter reading.
This charge is designed to recover costs associated with the meter and service conductor plus expenses related to metering, billing and customer assistance. It is a monthly charge and is based on the Facilities Demand. There is an additional meter charge for separately metered electric space heating.
A charge per month for each metering point. This shall be in addition to the charges for usage.
A fixed amount to be paid periodically by the utility customer without regard to demand or energy actually used. The customer charge recovers the cost of meters and other administrative costs of billing.
Customer charge includes distribution related costs that pertainto services, meters, billing, accounting, and information.
the monthly fee charged by utility companies for providing service.
A fixed amount to be paid monthly by customers regardless of how much natural gas they use. Partially covers the fixed costs for reading meters, issuing bills, maintaining facilities and gas lines, postage, etc. These costs occur even if there is no gas usage during a billing period.