Disaster Recovery (DR) Used only during major disasters, either natural or man-made.
For information on the Disaster Recovery Service Rate, please go to Understanding Your Electric Rate
Disaster Recovery
Rate Effective September 1, 2008
1. Applicability
Applicable to any commercial or industrial customer occupying premises that received service under General Service Rate Schedules during the occurrence of a major disaster, either natural or man-caused, resulting in widespread destruction to property and is declared by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council to be a local emergency. This service is not applicable to:
- Commercial enterprises such as rental facilities, common area meters or where more than one customer is served from a single meter.
- Temporary or occasional enterprises with known or expected tenures of less than two years, nor to meters that are for temporary services.
- Permanent or temporary residential facilities, nor to their common areas.
- Any service established on Experimental Rates.
- Any service exempted from the City Utilities Users Tax.
Service may be reestablished with this rider for those premises completely destroyed as a result of the disaster and upon which actual rebuilding begins within twenty-four (24) months of the date of Declaration of a Local Emergency by the Mayor. The rebuilding must occur pursuant to a Department of Building and Safety Permit No. 1, or Permit No. 3 to replace structures which had been razed to their foundations.
This service rider is subject to periodic assessment of conditions prevailing in the City and to the objectives of the Department, and the Department reserves the right to limit the number of customers receiving service hereunder.
2. Rate Duration and Billing
The applicable General Service Schedules will be reduced during the first 60 months of continuous service in the reconstructed original facilities as follows:
| Billing Components |
1st Year |
2nd Year |
3rd Year |
4th Year |
5th Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Charges |
35 |
30 |
25 |
20 |
10 |
| Demand Charges |
35 |
30 |
25 |
20 |
10 |
| Energy Charges |
35 |
30 |
25 |
20 |
10 |
| Facilities Charges |
35 |
30 |
25 |
20 |
10 |
| Reactive Energy Charges |
35 |
30 |
25 |
20 |
10 |
| Energy Cost Adjustment |
-0- |
-0- |
-0- |
-0- |
-0- |
| Reliability Cost Adjustment |
-0- |
-0- |
-0- |
-0- |
-0- |
| Energy Subsidy Adjustment |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
Customers forced by the total destruction of their premises to establish new services in unaffected premises within the immediate surrounding community are eligible to receive the benefits above for a duration of twenty-four (24) months, which may then be extended to the balance of the 60 months upon return to the newly rebuilt original premises as first occupants.
3. Qualification and Application for General Service Rider
Preliminary qualification shall be determined and application for this service arranged, by the Los Angeles Community Development Department (CDD), which shall transmit such application to the Department for final determination. The CDD shall determine the bounds of the "immediate surrounding community" per Mayor's Declaration. The rate reductions set forth herein shall become effective no earlier than one billing period after receipt of the application by the DWP, provided however, that any existing billing arrearages are first cleared.