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Brigham City hires rate consultant to finish electric rate study; time-of-use options tabled for March
Summary
Consultant Dave Berg will return March 19 with rate recommendations after analyzing AMI data; council asked for time-of-use modeling for residential and commercial customers and discussed residential demand charges as an alternative.
Brigham City invited consultant David Berg to brief the council on a new electric rate study and to gather input on issues the council wants analyzed before a recommendation at the March 19 meeting.
Berg, who said his team will present final recommendations on March 19, told the council AMI meter data now available will improve cost-of-service allocation. He outlined two broad options for the council to consider: residential demand charges (billing customers a charge for peak kilowatt demand) or time-of-use rates that vary energy prices by hour.
Berg said time-of-use rates are generally easier for customers to understand and, with the city’s AMI system, are now feasible. “Time of day is better than residential demand,” he said, noting some jurisdictions have recently implemented time-of-use for residential customers. Councilmembers asked for analyses of time-of-use alternatives, how the city’s summer-tiered (inclining-block) structure compares, and whether residential demand charges would be appropriate.
The council directed staff and the consultant to model time-of-use scenarios for residential and commercial classes, measure distributional impacts, and return with recommendations in March.
