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Show t, n n .n rr?v m .n Orem-Geneva Times- -April 29, 1982 a in Breaking away from traditional "declining block residential rate pricing structure, the Utah Public Service Commission Monday ordered a flat-ten'ing flat-ten'ing of Utah Power and Light . electricity elec-tricity rates that gives an average 12 "percent reduction to electrical users who do not have water heating or space ' heating service. ' . "The new rates make sweeping changes for all classes of service -residential, commercial and other industrial service, effective for all service rendered on and after April 12. , The new rates are based on the commission's com-mission's analysis of cost of service studies submitted by UP and L and other witnesses giving testimony before the commission. Under traditional declining block pricing, the unit cost was reduced with increased consumption. A bill of a typical user, without water or space heating, using 500 kilowatt hours a month, was calculated this way: 11.5523 cents per kilowatt hour for the first 60 Kwh; 9.1828 cents per kilowatt hour for the next 140 Kwh; 6.6880 cents per kilowatt hour for all additional Kwh. In addition, the 500 Kwh was reduced by 46 cents because of a fuel and purchase power adjustment, which is reviewed quarterly by the PSC (energy balancing account). The new pricing design flattens the unit price so the user is charged the same price (6.8892 cents) regardless of consumption. For example, the bill of a residential consumer without water space heating service using 500 Kwh per month is calculated this way. 500 Kwh x 6.8892 cents equals $33.99, when the same 46 cents is subtracted sub-tracted to cover the energy balancing account. In its order, the commission said that it does not at this time endorse one particular cost of service method and said "all such studies submitted in this case demonstrate the need for revenue reallocation among service schedules in order to effect a prudent movement toward equity among the rate classes." The new electricity pricing structure decision stems back to a December 1980 hearing on the allocation or spread of rates on a $31.4 million increase granted UP and L Co. earlier that year. That case was bifurcated or split into two parts - one to determine the dollar amount increase, in-crease, the other part on the allocation by and among classes of service of the dollar amount granted the company.' New tariffs for residential service: without water or space heating - an average reduction of 12 percent; with water heating service - an average reduction of six percent; for all-electric - an average 10 percent increase. Senior citizens will see their bills go up with removal of the first third of the differential between the senior citizen and general residential rates. The commission ordered the discount eliminated because of a Utah Supreme Court decision that said the special rate was illegal. The average increase for senior citizens ranges between 2.8 percent and 7.6 percent depending on type of service, e.g. without water heating, with water heating, or all-electric. all-electric. The commission ordered an average increase for commercial service of one percent with a range between 12 percent reduction and a 10 percent increase, again depending upon the type of service. The order also increased industrial service an average of six percent with a range of one third of one percent to 15 percent for large industrial users. Irrigation service will see an average increase of 10 percent. The commission ordered the company to implement a three-tiered rate design for irrigators that would take into consideration a load management program and a resulting decrease in rates depending upon the option chosen by the irrigator. Load management is a technique used to modify shape of an electric system's load pattern for the purpose of deferring building new capacity or the purchase of energy. In its order, the commission did not adopt the company's proposal for time of date rates for its residential customers. The commission said this rate would require that customer charges defray additional metering costs. The PSC feels the issue needs further consideration. Neither did the commission adopt the company's proposal for rates with summer-winter rate differentials. Mr. DaNeil Clegg's fourth grade class at Cherry Hill Elementary School recently tied three baby quilts as part of their unit on the Utah Pioneers. Each child was instructed on how to tie a quilt by their student teacher Miss Jelden. The children were each able to work on at least one quilt. The quilts are being donated to the Pediactrics Ward at the Utah Valley Hospital. The children hope they will bring as much joy to those children as they did to their class. Nationwide Bank Alliance Offers Expanded 24 Hour Banking Services to Utah . Wasatch Bank , the first in Utah to introduce the "Plus System" Network of shared 24 hour automated teller machine (ATM) facilities, is delighted to learn that First Security Bank has recently joined the Plus System making it possible for these two banks (and other Plus System member banks in Utah) to share ATM facilities in delivering banking services 24 hours every day of the year to one anothers customers. The Handibank ATMS of First Security Bank will be operational in The Plus System Network by April, 1983. The Utah banks are part of a nationwide bank alliance called Plus System, Inc. Other members of the Plus System now include Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, Continental Con-tinental Illinois of Chicago and approximately ap-proximately 20 other major banks. This means in the next 24 months, over 25 million households in 33 states, who are customers of Plus System banks will have 24 hour account access to withdraw cash from their checking and savings accounts, make transfers from one account to another, inquire into their account and obtain a cash advance on their credit card account throughout the United States regardless regar-dless of where their account relationship is maintained. This is made, possible through a sophisticated regional switching system, with elaborate security controls con-trols to guaranty complete privacy of information. A conservative estimate suggests that over 3,000 financial institutions and 4,000 ATMS will be available to The Plus System banking public by mid-1983. Energy impact Conference Slated For May 6 In SLC David Oyler, President of the Central Utah Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration, announced today that a conference on energy impact sponsored by A.S.P.A. will be held on Thursday, May 6, 1982. The conference events will take place from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 1460 South University Avenue, Provo, Utah. The cost of $10.00 per person includes luncheon. The program of speakers, panelists and a workshop is designed to help incorporate energy decisions into all facets of local governmental operations. Using the theme of "Projecting and Planning for Energy Impact on Local Governments in Utah", the conference promises to be an exciting event. Speakers and panel moderators include deputy Lieutenant Governor Brad Hain-sworth; Hain-sworth; Reed Searle, Governmental Relations Manager for IPP; Dr. William Timmins, Graduate School of Management at BYU; Hershel Hester III, Executive Director ot Utah League of Cities and Towns; and John Tanner, Executive Director for Utah Association of Counties. Topics of the conference include: "Promise and Problems of Energy Growth in Utah"; "How Communities Com-munities can Plan for Energy's Impact on Local Government"; "The Nuts and Bolts of Human Resources Planning"; "Big Power, Big Energy, Big Growth, Big Opportunities" Op-portunities" ; and "How to Get from Here to There on a Cost Effective Basis". 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