NB / CANADIAN BUSINESS ELECTRICITY
Commercial electricity in New Brunswick
General Service combines energy blocks and billing demand.
For a New Brunswick business, start with the serving utility and the commercial rate class on the statement. General Service combines energy blocks and billing demand. Keep energy, billed demand, fixed charges, adjustments and tax separate. Use the linked official publication to verify applicability before turning a rate into a bill estimate.
Source: NB Power rate schedules and application guidelines · 2026-10-29
What the official sources say
Checked 2026-10-29. Each row names its source. The publication and your account’s terms control what applies to you.
- Who General Service I is for
- NB Power describes General Service I as the category for customers in all areas it serves who use electricity for purposes other than those specifically covered under residential, small and large industrial, street lighting or unmetered categories.Source: NB Power: Rate schedules and application guidelines
- General Service II
- As of April 1, 2025, General Service II has been merged with General Service I. Customers under the General Service II rate at the time of the merger were charged the General Service I rate.Source: NB Power: Rate schedules and application guidelines
- Billing demand
- Billing demand is the greater of the maximum kW demand or 90% of the maximum kVA demand in the billing period.Source: NB Power: Rate schedules and application guidelines
- How the charges are built
- General Service I has a service charge per billing period, a demand charge that is waived for the first 20 kW, and an energy charge in two blocks, the first 5,000 kWh per billing period and the balance. Each energy block lists a base rate plus a variance account charge, and a total.Source: NB Power: Rate schedules and application guidelines
- The figures
- The figures and their effective date are in the dated reference below and in the calculator. We checked them against NB Power’s page on October 29, 2026.Source: NB Power: Rate schedules and application guidelines
What matters for a business account
NB Power’s General Service I schedule combines a service charge, energy blocks and a demand component. Its published billing-demand definition uses the greater of maximum kW or ninety percent of maximum kVA for the billing period. A measured kW value alone may therefore be insufficient.
The rate publication also identifies a variance-account component in the energy charge. When reproducing a bill, check whether a quoted energy value already includes that component before adding it again.
Our Canadian calculator includes a dated General Service I component example with the publisher link. It requires billed demand from the statement and displays exclusions. It does not decide account eligibility, model every adjustment or turn a sample subtotal into a guaranteed invoice.
Your New Brunswick bill-review checklist
- Use billed demand after the tariff’s kW/kVA rule.
- Check whether the energy figure includes the variance-account charge.
- Keep tax, credits and exceptional adjustments separate.
Turn the statement into a useful calculation
Record the billing period and electricity consumption in kWh. Use the billed demand from the statement where a demand charge applies; do not assume average consumption identifies the peak. Enter the fixed and variable components in their published units, and identify which adjustments are already included.
The Canadian calculator lets you declare energy blocks, billed demand, any included demand allowance, fixed charges and a tax assumption. Its subtotal is a model of those entries. It does not select your tariff, decide whether a business qualifies, reproduce every rider or certify a billing error.
When comparing two periods, record changes in operating hours, production, occupancy, heating and equipment. Those observations help explain a movement in consumption without inventing a market price or assuming an error. Keep the actual account and source documents privately with your business records.
Open the Canadian bill calculator →A dated General Service I component reference
The linked NB Power publication lists a CAD 30.87 service charge per billing period, 18.21¢/kWh for the first 5,000 kWh and 13.04¢ thereafter. The first 20 kW of billing demand has no demand charge; the remainder is CAD 14.20/kW. The calculator’s optional example excludes tax and other adjustments and requires tariff-defined billed demand. Source effective 2026-04-14; checked 2026-10-29; recheck by 2026-11-28.
Read the original source
NB Power rate schedules and application guidelines ↗
The publication and the account’s terms control applicability. A provider directory is not a province-wide offer or a guarantee that the same tariff applies to another meter.
Questions business owners ask
Does the NB Power example calculate every charge on my bill?
No. It models listed energy, demand and service components with declared inputs. Actual tax, credits, eligibility and other adjustments must be checked against the account and current schedule.
Are these business tariffs or residential examples?
This guide is written for commercial bill review. Actual eligibility and charge inputs must come from the account’s business schedule. Residential examples and U.S. state averages are not substituted for it.