Customer-owned transformation

• General service - standard
• General service - small commercial
• General service - manufacturing & food processing
• Power - standard
• Power - manufacturing & food processing

Power - Manufacturing & Food Processing

APPLICABILITY: To qualified manufacturing and food processing loads greater than 2000 kV.A and up to 15000 kV.A served through customer-owned transformation.

Qualifying Criteria:

1. The principal activity must be the production of processed food or finished or semi-finished goods for local or export markets, and the activity must be defined in the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code as manufacturing.  Not withstanding the latter criteria, granular fertilizer blending and cleaning grain to Canadian Grain Commission Export Standards are also considered eligible manufacturing/food processing activities.  Commercial printers primarily engaged in newspaper publication are ineligible for this rate.
2. At least 51% of the processed food or manufactured output must be wholesaled.
3. At least 51% of the total operating costs of the facilities in which the manufacturing or food processing operations occur must be attributable to manufacturing.
4. The customer must sign SaskPower's "Certificate of Eligibility" document.

Recorded Demand - The monthly recorded demand shall be the greater of the maximum kV.A demand registered between the hours of 07:00 to 22:00 hours Monday through Friday excluding statutory holidays or 60% of the maximum kV.A demand registered at any other time during the current month.

Billing Demand

The monthly billing demand shall be the monthly Recorded Demand but the billing demand shall not be less than 75% of the maximum billing demand in the preceding 11 months.

Effective February 1, 2007

MINIMUM BILL – The Basic Monthly Charge plus the Demand Charge.