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ALJ/TRP/jt2 Date of Issuance 12/22/2011
Decision 11-12-060 December 22, 2011
BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Application of Pacific Gas and Electric Company To Revise Its Electric Marginal Costs, Revenue Allocation, and Rate Design, including Real Time Pricing, to Revise its Customer Energy Statements, and to Seek Recovery of Incremental Expenditures. (U39M) |
Application 10-03-014 (Filed March 22, 2010) |
ORDER CORRECTING ERROR
This order is issued pursuant to Rule 16.5 of the California Public Utilities Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, and in response to a letter dated December 16, 2011, from Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to the Executive Director. PG&E seeks correction of typographical errors in Decision (D.) 11-12-053, which the Commission approved in PG&E's General Rate Case Phase 2 proceeding (Application (A.) 10-03-014).
PG&E states that in the redlined version of the decision posted on the Commission's website on December 14, 2011 a new Finding of Fact 33 was inserted, and that at pages 87-88 new text in Conclusions of Law 15 and 16 was also inserted, all three of which were changes PG&E had suggested be inserted if the Commission wished to deny the study of Mobile Home Park (MHP) Master Meter (MM) hook-up costs that the Proposed Decision recommended be approved as requested by The Utility Reform Network (TURN).
The Commission directed that the study be conducted, as set forth in the text of the decision (page 54) and as reflected in Ordering Paragraph 23.
Thus, the redlined December 14 version is internally inconsistent. To resolve this discrepancy, PG&E requests that the final decision be revised to delete Finding of Fact 33 as well as Conclusion of Law 15, and remove the redlined additions to Conclusions of Law 16 so the document aligns with the Commission's decision to order the study.
Discussion
PG&E has correctly identified inadvertent errors in the referenced language insertions in the redlined version of the decision. The elimination of the referenced additional language will rectify the error, consistent with the ordering paragraphs of the final decision. In order to resolve the discrepancy identified by PG&E, this order is issued pursuant to Rule 16.5 and Commission Resolution A-4661. Rule 16.5 pertains to requests for the correction of "obvious typographical errors or omissions in Commission decisions" by letter to the Executive Director. D.11-12-053 is hereby corrected to eliminate the new Finding of Fact 33 and the new text in Conclusions of Law 15 and 16 pursuant to Rule 16.5.
Therefore, IT IS ORDERED that pursuant to Rule 16.5 and Commission Resolution A-4661, Decision 11-12-053 is hereby corrected to eliminate the following language which inadvertently was added in the redlined version of the decision posted on the Commission's website on December 14, 2011:
(a) Finding of Fact 33 is eliminated which states "TURN's proposed future collection of actual costs of service for new, directly served submetered mobilehome parks would result in a very small number of data points and a study of existing (as well as new) directly served MHPs, to obtain additional data points would be costly."
(b) Conclusion of Law 15 is eliminated which states: "In D.04-11-033, we have already found that the use of a statistically valid sampling method for a cost study of directly-served MHPs, `is likely to be more costly than the marginal cost method because of the costs of performing the survey' and also that a marginal cost-based ET discount `would be within the range of uncertainty of a discount calculated using a sampling method' and no evidence contradicting these findings was presented in the instant proceeding."
(c) Conclusion of Law 16 is eliminated which states: "TURN's proposal that Pacific Gas and Electric should be required to collect information on the costs of serving mobile home park customers and present this data in its next Phase 2 GRC proceeding should be denied as it would be costly, would result in limited data, and would contravene D.04-11-033."
This order is effective today.
Dated December 22, 2011, at San Francisco, California.
/s/ PAUL CLANON |
PAUL CLANON Executive Director |