Electric Services Cost of Service Study

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AGENDA
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL

The Ames City Council meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall.   The regular council meeting agenda  includes the following. Note that you can generally click on individual agenda items below to get the full staff report or other explanation.

• 6. Electric Services Cost of Service Study.
  A Cost of Service (COS) study is designed to compare the rate users pay with the actual cost of providing the electricity. The last time one was done was 2011, so another was undertaken starting about this time last year. The rate changes proposed by the consultant and staff wouldn't increase the overall revenue, but rather would shift costs to better reflect the COS for any given time of day. This should incentivize strategic power consumption strategies, especially for the heavier industrial/commercial users of electricity. Finally, the demand for electricity is highest during the mid-afternoon in the summer, so by charging a higher rate for "on peak" power, it sends pricing signals to the consumer to shift any flexible power usage to "off peak" times. Council is being asked for input on this strategy, then the issue will go to EUORAB (Electric Utility Operations Review and Advisory Board) for comment before a final decision is reached.
   
  

Communications to Council: The following items are requests and communications to Council that aren't published on the agenda, so we won't deliberate them substantially.  This includes staff reports and communications or requests from constituents and developers. Typically, Council will ask city staff for more information, put the item on a future agenda for deliberation and possible action, or just accept the communication, taking no further action.

• 113 North Dakota Rezoning Request.

Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1