The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-04-15
ELECTRIC LIGHT
- AND POWER RATES
Conclusions Reached by Alton D. Adams
in His Report to the Bailiffs and
the Local Board Of Trade.

For s0-candle.power l00.watt tung
stem lamps erected by the Brattle
boro Gas Light Company TO replace
the present street lamps and operated
from sunset 10 within one hour OF
sunrise on every day Of the year, the
village of Brattleboro should pay no
more than $50 per lamp annually.
This conclusion is supported by the
fact that the cost to Brattleboro OF
operating such s0.candle power lamps
with an engine. driven plant devoted
exclusively TO public lighting would
be no more than S22.6O per lamp per
wear including interest and depreciation
That the rate Of $50 per s0,eandie'
power lamp per year is suiicientiy
high at Brattleboro is further indicat'
ed by the fact that this rate amounts
10 cents per kilowatt hour USED In
the lamps. while one electric system
in the Connecticut Valley operates 90
candle.power street lamps 1896 hours
for SIS per lamp per year, amounting
TO SOC cents per kilowatt hour, and
another electric system in the same
valley operates l00.candlc. power street
lamps 1000 hours for $lT per lamp
per wear, amounting to $40 cents per
kilowatt hour. Both of the electric
systems are much larger than the one
al Brattleboro. but they have much
less water power available, and all,
night street lamps can be operated
mainly by water power.
Any contract for the operation OF
the above street lamps should be made
with the Brattleboro Gas Light Com
pany, assuming that company to own
The electric system in the village, un'
less it appears that corporation as
suming to operate this system has
franchise to supply electricity.
If any electric meter rent or MINI
mum rate is charged for the supply
of electricity in buildings in Brattle,
boro for any use, said rent should
not exceed 80 cents per meter per
month on meters of the smallest size
in general use there, and said rent or
rate should be charged in addition 10
any sums paid for electricity. and to
every consumer using meter. II
a two-rate meter and time switch is
used the corresponding rent or RATE
should not be more than one doiisr
per month for the smallest size.
Electricity for lighting buildings in
Brattleboro should be supplied to any
consumer at the rate Of not more than
seven cents per kilowatt hour, un-
less the company elects to adopt the
two-rate time system. If the company
adopts the tworate time system. the
rate TO any consumer OF electricity
for any purpose during not more than
four hours per day, six months per year
should not be more than ii cents per
kilowatt hour. During all the otnef
hours of the year the rate on electrlclty
for lighting should not be more than SIX
cents per kilowatt hour on the two-rate
system. rh.;
Tn support of these private lighting
rates. the Brattleboro company mas az.
ready named IL cents per kiloWate
hour as the highest rate for hgntihg
even when the supply is taken at tne
time of the maximum demahds anu
has named seven cents as prontapie
rate. BY extending the rate OF seven
cents to all consumers the safes ana
nrofts will be increased Q
One electrical supply system south OF
serves all lighting con
sinners at the rate Of six cents per
kiiowatt hour at all times of the DAY
and year. and another system nearby
served ali its lighting consumers at the
average rate of 4.67 cents per Rllo-
watt hour during recent year. Botn
If these electric systems are larger
than the one at Brattleboro, but they
generate the greater part or their
energy bv steam. Any consumer IN
pratfleboro should be supplied with
for power or heating at four
cents per kilowatt hour, unless Ine
company adopts the two..rate system,
in which case the maximum, power
rate should be not more than IL cents
under the conditions above named.
WITH the two-rate time system, the
rate to any consumer OF eieItricitt
for power or heating should pc not
more than three cents per NloWatI
hour at all times except not over rour
hours per day in six months OF the
wear. ~ noLos
The Brattleboro company now makes
newer rate of two cents per kllowatt
hopr to some consumers. and its high,
oSt mower rate even at maximum load
Is eioht cents per kilowatt hour, ex-
eentinr the improper minimum rate.
A number of electrical supply systems
n tbe Connecticut Valley and one
elsewhere in Massachusetts, some OF
hem no larger than the system at
sold all their electric
Dower at the average rates 81 200
,ents. 2.s2 cents, $50 cents, S.lo cents
and 1872 cents. respectively Ior use Ill
motors during the recent year.
Constant power from the vernon
-, sboujd he sold to the village OF
prattIaboro or to the Brattleboro
,nn,nany as low as one cent per hlo-
ratt hour. but the village should not
west in plant to transform power
Hses1 .. tb;s nr;ee unless the power