Rates & Policies

Explore Southeast Colorado Power Association's rates, policies, and services for affordable and reliable energy solutions.

Rates & Policies

Please see the tariff sheets below for a detailed breakdown of our current rates and pricing structure. These documents outline applicable charges and related policies.

FH - Farm & Home Single Phase

ID - Irrigation Water Pumping/Demand

IR - Irrigation Water Pumping

LP - Large Power

NM - Net Metering

R - Renewable Resource Power Service

RP - Utility Scale Renewable Power

HH - Heater & Water Heating

GD - General Service/Demand

GS - General Service

SS - Small Service

TD - Time of Day Electric Thermal Storage

YO - Area Lighting

Line Extension Policy

Line Retention Policy

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The following section contains Rate & Policies frequently asked questions. Select a topic to expand and view quick reference information.

SECPA uses a cost-of-service approach to set electric rates. This means the cooperative calculates the total cost of delivering electricity to its members, including infrastructure maintenance, operating expenses, and power supply. These costs are allocated among members within each rate class. A portion of the costs is recovered through the access, or customer, charge, with the remaining costs recovered through kilowatt-hour (kWh) sales and, when applicable, demand charges.

The Customer Charge or Access Charge is the monthly minimum charge for that electric service. The Customer Charge is designed to help recover the costs of maintaining and operating the electric system. These costs are necessary to make service available on our system – regardless of how much power a consumer uses, or whether they use their service 1 month out of the year or 12 months a year. Currently, not all of SECPA’s fixed costs are recovered in the Customer Charge. A portion of our fixed costs are also recovered in the energy (kWh) charge.

The PCA stands for Power Cost Adjustment. The PCA is being implemented to pass through the wholesale power increase from our power supplier. Our Supplier, Tri-State Generation and Transmission is moving to a rate format that will be evaluated annually and may be increased or decreased annually based on how well that rate covered Tri-State’s costs in the previous year. With the PCA in place, SECPA will be able to pass those increases or decreases on to the members without changing our base rates.

You can call our office to hear about options like budget billing which spreads your payments evenly over the year to avoid high bills during peak usage months. You can also look into resources such as LEAP Colorado Low-income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) | Colorado Department of Human Services and other energy assistance programs administered by Colorado Energy Outreach at www.energyoutreach.org.

Rates & Policies

Rates & Policies

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