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Council adopts electric delivery-rate tariff; primary customers to see 2% reduction, streetlight load and rates adjusted
Summary
The council approved a delivery-system tariff for the municipally owned utility, Lubbock Power & Light, including a 2% rate decrease for primary customers and a streetlight rate/load adjustment that keeps city cost recovery flat at $1.3 million; the measure passed unanimously.
The Lubbock City Council adopted a delivery-system electric rate tariff schedule for Lubbock Power & Light that includes a 2% reduction for primary (very large) customers and changes to the streetlight load and rate structure intended to keep the city’s streetlight cost recovery flat at $1.3 million.
Harvey (presenter), speaking for the utility, said the council’s strategic plan called for the utility to move delivery rates toward the midpoint of comparable transmission-distribution utilities over three to five years. Staff presented comparative charts showing residential and commercial rates relative to peer utilities and recommended no change for residential, small commercial and large commercial secondary customers at this time. For the utility’s 11 primary customers (over 1,000,000 kWh), staff proposed a 2% rate decrease.
On streetlights, utility staff said an updated load forecast (reducing expected on-hours from an earlier estimate) required increasing the per-unit rate while reducing the load assumption; that recalibration was intended to maintain the city’s $1.3 million cost recovery for street lighting rather than change the city’s net cost.
Council approved the tariff schedule as presented.
Vote and effects
- Motion to approve a delivery-system electric rate tariff schedule effective Nov. 1, 2025, including a 2% reduction for primary customers and streetlight adjustments: passed unanimously.
Staff numbers cited
- Utility-wide revenue requirement for last year and this year: $142,751,000 (presenter’s figure). - Proposed effective date for new schedule: 11/01/2025. - Primary customer decrease: 2%. - Streetlight city cost recovery targeted at $1,300,000, with a revised load-hour forecast reducing expected on-hours to about 4,100 hours.
Implementation
If implemented as scheduled, primary customers billed on that class would see reduced delivery charges beginning Nov. 1, 2025; the city’s streetlight billing will be adjusted for load and rate so municipal cost recovery stays at the budgeted level.
