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Electric rates
(Updated May 2008)

The Residential Electric rate is composed of three monthly charges: the Basic Charge, the Delivery Chare and the Energy Charge.

Services that must be provided to you regardless of your usage, such as meter reading, billing and customer service, are listed under Basic Charge.

The Delivery Charge covers the costs of all "back-end" work required to send power over EWEB's distribution system to your home. It includes the operation and maintenance of local wires, transformers, poles and equipment.

The Energy Charge covers the costs of producing the electricity and transmitting it over long-distance transmission systems to Eugene's distribution system. (If you have signed up for EWEB Greenpower, it will appear on this portion of your bill.)

General Service rates also include a Demand Charge, which charges for peak kilowatt (kW) usage during the billing period.

Residential service

Small general service
Rates for general service customers using 0-30 monthly kilowatts.

Medium general service
Rates for general service customers using 31-500 monthly kilowatts.

Other electric rates
For large general service, street lighting and other electric rates, visit EWEB's Policies and Procedures Manual (Chapter V). The manual is in PDF format and contains left-hand bookmarks and links in the table of contents for easier navigation to the rate schedules.

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