PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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ENERGY DIVISION RESOLUTION E-3726
FEBRUARY 22, 2001
Resolution E-3726. San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) filed an Interim Bill Stabilization Plan to implement D.00-08-037; Revisions to the Plan and Implementation of the Energy Rate Ceiling Retroactive Credit in Compliance with Assembly Bill 265 and D.00-09-040, and; proposes to apply similar plan to Direct Access (DA) Customers. SDG&E's Interim Bill Stabilization Plan implementing D.00-08-037 is approved; SDG&E's revisions to the Plan and implementation of the Energy Rate Ceiling Retroactive Credit to comply with AB 265 and D.00-09-040 are approved with modifications; SDG&E's proposal to apply the Plan to DA customers is denied.
By Advice Letters 1249-E filed August 28, 2000; 1254-E Filed on September 12, 2000; 1260-E/-E-A filed on October 2/Oct 30, 2000; and 1264-E/-E-A filed on October 19/December 6, 2000.
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SUMMARY
This Resolution approves with modifications, San Diego Gas & Electric Company's (SDG&E's) Advice Letters (ALs) 1254-E and 1260-E-A, which implement the expanded rate stabilization plan required by Assembly Bill (AB) 265 and adopted in Decision (D.) 00-09-040 for SDG&E's bundled service customers. It denies SDG&E's request to implement a similar rate stabilization plan for Direct Access (DA) customers as filed in AL 1264-E-A.1 We direct SDG&E to show deferred amounts including carrying charges on customer bills both for equity reasons and to prevent perverse incentives for customers to avoid deferred electric energy charges by switching between SDG&E-bundled and DA service. Deferred charges will be due from customers upon termination of SDG&E distribution service. We further direct SDG&E to only collect carrying charges on directly associated deferred amounts. Add
No customer will be liable for future recovery or carrying charges for monthly electricity bills fully paid.
SDG&E's AL 1249-E implemented a bill stabilization plan adopted in D.00-08-037. AL 1249-E was in effect for a short period of time until it was largely superceded by the rate stabilization plan required by AB 265. This Resolution also approves AL 1249-E, noting that the tariffs filed in that advice letter were subsequently revised in AL 1254-E.
1 1. AB 265 requires the Commission to establish an accounting procedure to track and recover reasonable and prudent costs of providing electric energy to retail customers unrecovered through retail bills due to the application of the ceiling. SDG&E's recovery of its reasonable and prudent costs of procuring energy at prices above the energy rate ceiling may thus be "deferred" to a future date.
