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Rates and services charges
Your rate is shown on your bill (D, DM or DT).
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Change to Rate DM
Pursuant to Régie de l'énergie decision D-2008-003, since April 1, 2008, Hydro-Québec has no longer offered Rate DM to customers wishing to obtain a new service contract.
Customers who already have a service contract at Rate DM will continue to pay that rate.
Rate DM applies to apartment blocks or other multiple-unit buildings where residences do not have separate meters and where bulk metering is used.
Rate DM consists of a fixed charge plus two levels of pricing for energy consumption. The structure of Rate DM is as follows:
| Fixed charge (per day) | |
| Fixed charge per day, times the multiplier | 40.64¢ |
| Price of energy (¢/kWh) | |
| First 30 kWh per day, times the multiplier | 5.40¢ |
| Remaining energy consumption | 7.33¢ |
| Price of power ($/kW) | |
| Exceeding 50 kW in the winter period (December 1 to March 31) | $1.53 |
Rates effective April 1, 2008.
Under no circumstances may this table be used to replace the Distribution Tariff.
The prices indicated for energy may be reduced by a discount for electricity supplied at medium or high voltage.
Unlike Rate D, Rate DM has a multiplier that applies to the fixed charge and helps determine consumption at the various energy prices. The amount of the multiplier depends on the type of dwelling:
- 1 multiplier for each dwelling in an apartment building or community residence;
- 1 multiplier for the first 9 rooms in a community residence;
- 1 multiplier for each additional room in a community residence.
Rate DM, like Hydro-Québec's other rates, assumes that electricity will be supplied at low voltage. When the customer uses electricity supplied at a nominal voltage between phases equal to 5kV but less than 50 kV or invests to transform it, then Hydro-Québec no longer has to pay transformation costs. In return, the utility grants a discount of 0.222 ¢/kWh on the price of energy billed.