Gas System Rates and Statistics

General Service -- Firm Gas Rate

Applicability: This rate schedule is applicable to all natural gas service required by customer for domestic and commercial purposes.

  • Tap Fee: $550.00
Monthly Rate:
  • Basic Monthly Charge: $ 7.25 per month, plus $0.7297 per 100 cu. ft
  • Minimum Charge: The monthly minimum charge shall be Basic Monthly Charge plus all applicable rate adjustments..

Large Industrial & Commercial -- Firm Gas Rate

Applicability: This rate is applicable to all natural gas service required by the Customer for commercial and industrial purposes when the Customer's annual load factor exceeds or is expected to exceed 40.0%.

Monthly Rate
  • Basic Monthly Charge: $25.00 per month, plus $4.3640 per MMBtu
  • Minimum Charge: The monthly minimum charge shall be the Monthly Rate charges plus all applicable rate adjustments.

 

Commercial & Industrial -- Firm Transportation Gas Rate

Applicability: This rate is applicable to all natural gas service required by Customer for commercial and industrial purposes when the Customer's annual load factor exceeds or is expected to exceed 40.0%.

Monthly Rate

  • Standard Pricing:
  • Basic Monthly Charge: $50.00 per month
  • Delivery Service Rate: $0.890 per MMBtu delivered
  • Commodity Rate: The Inside FERC Spot Market price per MMBtu delivered

Minimum Charge
The monthly minimum charge shall be the Monthly Rate charge plus all applicable rate adjustments.

 

Outside Pool Heating Rate

For Billing Months April through October

Basic Monthly Charge............................................$7.25 per month
Commodity Rate........................$0.4364 per 100 cubic feet delivered

For Billing Months November through March

Basic Monthly Charge............................................$7.25 per month
Commodity Rate........................$0.7297 per 100 cubic feet delivered

Minimum Charge : The monthly minimum charge shall be the
Basic Monthly Charge plus all applicable rate adjustments.

Purchased Gas Cost Adjustment

Effective January 1, 2003

The monthly Purchased Gas Cost Adjustment ("PGA") factor calculated pursuant to this Rate Schedule No. 8 is applicable to all natural gas purchases from the Sylacauga Utilities Board ("SUB") by Customers receiving natural gas service pursuant to SUB Natural Gas Rate Schedule Nos. 1 and 2 and the standard pricing provision of Rate Schedule Nos. 3, 4, and 7 (referred to hereinafter as the "R & C" or "Residential & Commercial" sales). The monthly PGA factors will initially be based on estimated costs and sales and later adjusted for actual costs and sales.

The PGA formula is:


          PGA = [(A + T - B) / C - D)] - $3.15

Where:

"A" is the SUB's total monthly costs associated with its natural gas purchases including, but not limited to, transportation charges, storage charges and charges for natural gas purchases;

"T" is the monthly adjustment to true-up projected costs and sales to actual costs and sales;

"B" is the revenues recovered from the commodity rate charges to customers electing the alternative pricing provision of the Natural Gas Rate Schedule Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6;

"C" is the total SUB Mcf sales; and

"D" is the Mcf sales to customers electing the alternative pricing provision of Natural Gas Rate Schedule Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6.

The True-Up formula is:

          T = R - (E x PGA)

Where:

"R" is the actual R&C revenue requirement; and

"E" is the actual R&C Mcf sales.

The Board retains the right to adjust the current monthly PGA to reflect the under recovery of costs resulting from seasonal changes when there can be significant changes in total gas deliveries from month to month.

Gas System Statistics

 

Sales

Year

Number of
Customers

Gas
Sold

Peak
Demand

Annual
Revenue

2007 5632 3,076 MMCF 16.43 MMCF/D $26,939,579
2006
5,650
3,341 MMCF
18.27 MMCF/D
$29,964,939

2005

5,716

3,221 MMCF

19.10 MMCF/D

$37,102,838

2004

5,687

3,384 MMCF

19.99 MMCF/D

$25,364,734

2003

5,745

 2,995 MMCF

15.47 MMCF/D

$20,681,995

Purchases

Year

Gas
Purchased

Annual
Cost

Ave. Cost
Per MCF

Annual
Load Factor

2007 3,075 MMCF $24,133,792 $ 7.85 60.3%
2006
3,340 MMCF
$29,707,628
$ 8.89
67.8%

2005

3,620 MMCF

$33,711,914

 $ 9.31

48.6%

2004

 3,479 MMCF

$23,151,360

$ 6.65

46.4 %

2003

 3,012 MMCF

$18,038,916

$ 5.99

53.2 %