Lighting Service Rates

Rate Effective September 1, 2008

1.  Applicability

Applicable to service, including energy and maintenance, for street and highway lighting (including tunnels, bridges, and parks).

2.  Base Monthly Rates - Multiple Service

3.  Series Service Adjustment

$1.33 per month shall be added to the Charges Per Light as set forth in 2 above for Series Service.

4. Pass-through Billing Components (ECA and RCA)

The Charges Per Light as set forth in 2 above are subject to adjustment on a Kilowatt-hour basis for variation of energy costs and reliability costs as described in the General Provisions.

5. Billing

The bill under Rate A shall be the sum parts of (1) through (3).

6. General Conditions

a. Character of Service
        (1)    The necessary posts or fixtures, brackets, luminaires, and underground interconnecting conduits and circuits must be provided by the customer at the customer’s expense. Systems with overhead interconnecting circuits between posts may be served hereunder, with the customer providing posts, fixtures, brackets, and luminaires, and the Department providing, installing, and maintaining such overhead interconnecting circuits at extra cost.
        (2)    Energy will be supplied at service points mutually agreed upon between the customer and the Department for multiple systems at 120 or 120/240 volts, or for series systems at 6.6 amperes. The Department reserves the right to provide multiple service at voltage ratings other than specified herein.
        (3)    For incandescent-light systems, the Department reserves the right to use lumen-rated (group replacement) lamps.
        (4)    All plans and specifications for the installation of, and the construction of, or changes to lighting systems shall be subject to approval of the Department, which shall have the right to inspect and to test the installations before acceptance for service. Testing of original system installations will be made without charge provided that such testing may be done without involving unreasonable time or expense due to faulty construction. Where it is contemplated that the Department will provide, install, and maintain overhead interconnecting circuits, the posts shall be located so that no extra supports for such overhead wiring will be required except as may be determined by the Department to be reasonably necessary.
       (5)    Where Series Service is furnished from Department overhead lines, the customer may mount cutout boxes on the Department’s poles, and service connections will be run by the Department to such boxes. The Department will furnish vaults and all necessary appurtenances therein for lighting service in locations established by the Department as underground areas. Where Series Service from a vault is furnished, the customer shall install all ducts and conductors between the posts or fixtures and the vault.
       (6)    Maintenance of customer's equipment will be furnished by the Department as specified under "Normal Maintenance."
       (7)    The Department will provide, install, and maintain overhead interconnecting circuits between posts accepted for such service subject to conditions and charges specified under “Maintenance Other Than Normal.”

b. Normal Maintenance
        (1)    The Department will furnish normal maintenance which shall include:
                 (a)    Periodic inspection, renewal of lamps and cleaning of glassware according to established schedules.
                 (b)    Replacement of glassware and inoperative lamps.
                 (c)    Maintenance of controlling devices according to established schedules.
                 (d)    Cleaning and painting of posts.
                 (e)    Minor repairs to wiring and electrical appurtenances on or within the posts.
       (2)    Normal Maintenance shall not include maintenance with respect to equipment developing defects in test or in service due to faults in design, manufacture, or installation until such defects have been satisfactorily corrected; nor replacement of damaged glassware or lamps when such damage is coincident with or is a result of partial or total demolition of post or when caused by vandalism, riots, fires, explosions, earthquakes, or Acts of Nature.
       (3)    Under this LS-2 Schedule, a $2.50 charge is included in the Charge per Light for Normal Maintenance, as set forth in 6.g., below.

c. Maintenance Other Than Normal 
    The Department provides for maintenance or replacement of customer’s equipment only as set forth in 6.b. above for Normal Maintenance. Consequently, the Department may not be required to furnish at its expense any other maintenance work, nor replacement of posts or post parts, nor of underground cables or conduits beyond the Department’s service feed points. Where the Department has approved the plans for an overhead-wired system, and has agreed to provide and install the overhead interconnecting circuits between the posts, it will provide such installation and maintenance service at an additional annual charge of $21.78 per post.

d. Temporary Turn-Ons  
    For Temporary Turn-Ons of streetlighting at times other than regularly scheduled hours of operation, the rate shall be $76.00 per turn-on as a service charge, plus $0.06794 per Kilowatt-hour, plus the ECA and RCA. In such cases, the Kilowatt-hours shall be as determined by the Department.

e. Bills to Board of Public Works  
    Monthly bills for energy or lighting services rendered to the Board of Public Works or one of its subordinate departments or bureaus under this rate schedule shall be paid monthly when due.

f. Operation Schedules  
   Upon acceptance of the customer's system, lights will be controlled in accordance with one of the schedules of operation hereunder: 
             (1)    All-Night Schedule of Operation
                      Lights shall be turned on daily at 15 minutes after sunset and turned off 25 minutes before sunrise.
             (2)    1:00 a.m. Schedule of Operation
                     Lights shall be turned on daily at 15 minutes after sunset and shall be turned off at 1:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
             (3)    All-Day Schedule of Operation
                     Lights will operate at all hours other than those specified under All-Night Schedule of Operation.
             (4)    Continuous Schedule of Operation
                      Lights will operate 24 hours per day.
             (5)    Special Schedule of Operation
                     Earlier or later turn-off of lights than is provided under “Standard All-Night Schedule of Operation” may be provided under a                                  suitable schedule of operation as mutually agreed upon by the Department and the customer, but only if the customer agrees to                          pay for any extra costs involved in furnishing special switching and other service required for such schedule.
            (6)    Photoelectric Controller Operation
                     In lieu of controlling any lighting system with reference to “sunset” and “sunrise” in schedules of operation, the Department may, at                      its option, control lamps by means of photoelectric controllers so that the lamps will be lighted daily from dusk to dawn,                                          approximately 340 hours monthly.

g. Energy Charge Calculation  
    Base Energy Charge will be calculated based on the Charge per Light formula below:

(Nominal Kilowatts * kWh Price Season, TOU * Hour of Use TOU + $2.50)

Nominal Kilowatts are the kilowatts supplied by the Department to feed the lighting load. Typically specified by the lamp manufacturer or can be determined by the Department lab.

Kilowatt-hour Price Season, TOU is the energy price specified by season (High Season and Low Season) and time-of-use periods (High Peak Period, Low Peak Period, and Base Period). Costs are based on Schedule A-2 Rate B.

For any lights not covered in section 6.f., above, the hours of use shall be based upon the following two time schedules:

• The Department Time-Of-Use schedule; and
• U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Application Department Sunrise and Sunset monthly average schedule for the Los Angeles area  
  (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html)