Single-Phase Residential Service

Availability: Available to any residential customer, for domestic purposes only, in a single, private residence. Each apartment or dwelling unit shall be considered a single, private residence.

Capture The Energy Rate

Capture The Energy is Moorhead Public Service's (MPS') new umbrella program for all of MPS' renewable energy efforts, including Capture The Wind^®, to promote, educate, and demonstrate renewable energy concepts in Moorhead and support existing and new renewable energy projects. To actively support MPS' renewable energy efforts, contact us at 218.299.5400 to indicate your desired contribution level of $2.50 or $5.00 per month.

Yard Lights/Security Lights

Overhead Wiring without a Pole:

Dual-Fuel Rates

Small General Service/General Service

Availability: Available to Small General Service and General Service customers in conformance with MPS' Electric Service Rules and Regulations. All controllable electric heat shall be metered separately at a monthly rate of:

Residential

Availability: Available to residential customers in conformance with MPS' Electric Service Rules and Regulations. All controllable electric heat shall be metered separately at a rate of:

Dual-Fuel Water Heater Control Credit: Available to residential dual-fuel customers only.

Dual-Fuel Air Conditioner Cycling: Available to residential dual-fuel customers only.

General Service

Availability: Available to any customer other than a single, private residence. Single- or three-phase service at standard distribution or primary voltages. Small General Service customers may choose to be billed at the General Service rate.

When use exceeds 10,000 kWh:

Minimum Billing: A General Service customer shall pay no less than a minimum amount each month. The minimum shall be 30 percent of a customer's total energy and demand billed in the month of MPS' peak demand established in the most recent six-month seasonal billing period (winter or summer) that corresponds to the current seasonal billing period. Seasonal billing periods are:

      Winter Season:        November-April

      Summer Season:      May-October

Demand: The billing demand is the greatest 15-minute load in kW during the billing period. (Subject to adjustment if the power factor is low).

Power Factor: The customer shall maintain a power factor as near to 100 percent as practicable. When the highest 15-minute load in kVA exceeds 115 perecent of the highest 15-minute load in kW, the kW demand will be increased by 0.2 kW for each such excess kVA

X-Ray Machines, Transformer-Type Welders, etc.: When the customer has equipment with intermittent and rapidly fluctuating load characteristics, the fixed charge in the rate will be increased by $0.50 per kVA of excess capacity provided by MPS to prevent impairment of service.

Small General Service

When use is not more than 10,000 kWh:

Minimum Billing: For a customer using less than 1,000 kWh in the previous 11 months, the minimum bill shall be $13.90.

For a customer using between 1,000 and 10,000 kWh, the minimum bill shall be 30 percent of the customer's billing in the month of MPS' peak demand during the most recent
six-month seasonal  billing period.

      Winter Season: November-April

      Summer Season: May-October

Interruptible Rates

Availability: Available to General Service customers with a minimum of 100 kW of interruptible electrical load. Service under these rates requires conformance with MPS' Electric Service Rules and Regulations.

Curtailable Loads: Customers agree to manually curtail demand to a specified maximum demand level during the utility's curtailment period. General Service rate applies with credit for interruption as follows:

      Curtailable Credit: $6.00/kW of curtailable demand

Customer Generation: Customer agrees to curtail demand by generating during the utility's curtailment period. The General Service rate applies with credit for reduced demand as follows:

      Generation Credit: $7.00/kW of generated demand