ELECTRIC UTILITY

POWER OUTAGES:  The safe and reliable delivery of electricity is the primary goal of the Carlisle Municipal Electric Department.  We are very proud of the reliability of our service.  However, power outages do occur within our system.  The most common reasons for an outage are wind storms, lightening, squirrels, or accidents involving a power pole.

If you are experiencing an outage, please check the following before you call:

• Is the whole house out of power?
  
• Have you checked your circuit breakers or fuses?  
  To check a circuit breaker you must first flip it to the "OFF" position to reset it before flipping it to the "ON" position. 
  
• Check and see if your neighbors out of power too.
  
• Do you see a tree limb on a power line or a line down?

The City of Carlisle operates a municipal electric distribution system that serves approximately 1,530 customers.  The City buys wholesale electricity from MidAmerican Energy Company under a full requirements wholesale purchase power agreement that covers the actual energy used, the generating capacity needed to produce it and the portion of the high voltage electrical transmission system necessary to deliver the energy to Carlisle.  The City’s average monthly peak demand is 3,550 kW with a winter peak demand of 3,224 kW and a summer peak demand of 6,014 kW.   

The City’s current wholesale power agreement is based on present forward market pricing with rates differentiated by time of day, day of week and time of year.  Carlisle’s retail electric rates, established in March 2003 are as follows: 

Residential		Summer (Jun-Sep)		Winter (Oct-May)
Service Charge		$6.00/mo.		$6.00/mo.
First 1,000 kWh		$0.07750/kWh		$0.07250/kWh
Additional kWh		$0.07750/kWh		$0.06750/kWh
Res Elect Heat		Summer (Jun-Sep)		Winter (Oct-May)
Service Charge		$6.00/mo.		$6.00/mo.
First 1,000 kWh		$0.07750/kWh		$0.06500/kWh
Additional kWh		$0.07750/kWh		$0.04500/kWh
Commercial		Summer (Jun-Sep)		Winter (Oct-May)
Service Charge		$8.00/mo.		$8.00/mo.
First 4,000 kWh		$0.09250/kWh		$0.08750/kWh
Additional kWh		$0.07000/kWh		$0.06500/kWh
Comm Elect Heat		Summer (Jun-Sep)		Winter (Oct-May)
Service Charge		$8.00/mo.		$8.00/mo.
First 4,000 kWh		$0.09250/kWh		$0.06250/kWh
Additional kWh		$0.07000/kWh		$0.05500/kWh
Comm Demand		Summer (Jun-Sep)		Winter (Oct-May)
Service Charge		$15.00/mo.		$15.00/mo.
1st 250hrs x kW Demand		$0.07250/kWh		$0.06750/kWh
Next 150hrs x kw Demand		$0.06500/kWh		$0.06250/kWh
Additional kWh		$0.05750/kWh		$0.05250/kWh