PROTESTS
AL 1249-E
No party protested.
AL 1254-E
Tenderland Power Company (TPC), an electric service provider (ESP), protested on September 26, 2000. Scripps Institute (Scripps) filed a late-filed protest on November 9, 2000. Both TPC and Scripps protest SDG&E's stated intent to apply the 6.5 cent/kWh ceiling to DA customers. Utility.Com (an ESP) and the Alliance for Retail Markets (ARM) filed letters on October 2, 2000 in support of SDG&E's proposal . SDG&E responded to the protests of TPC and Scripps on October 3 and November 16 respectively.
ALs 1260-E and 1260-E-A
Enron protested but later withdrew its protest.
ALs 1264-E and 1264-E-A (Withdrawn by SDG&E on February 16, 2001.)
A number of parties protested ALs 1264-E/-E-A. TPC in its comments of November 3 and December 21 and Mr. Larry Cornett, a DA customer in SDG&E's service territory, by letter dated December 14, 2000, stated their opposition to the advice letter. Utility.Com on November 3, 2000, ARM on November 8, 2000, and Competitive Retail Energy for Consumers (CREC)3 on December 7 and 14, 2000 expressed their general support for the advice letter. SDG&E responded to TPC's protests on November 9, 2000 and January 2, 2001. SDG&E responded to CREC's letter on December 14 and to Mr. Larry Cornett's Protest on December 21, 2000.
The Commission's Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) submitted a late-filed protest to AL 1264-E, on November 29, 2000, in which it suggested content and process improvements to SDG&E's plan for customer notification. SDG&E filed AL 1264-E-A to address the concerns raised in ORA's late-filed protest and Utility.com's November 3 letter of support. ORA's suggestions, as well as the "gaming issue" addressed in these protests and responses are not rendered moot, despite SDG&E's withdrawal of ALs 1264-E/-E-A.
AL 1264-E/-E-A generated substantial public interest. The Commission's Public Advisor's Office, the Energy Division (ED), and other Commission staff received hundreds of public contacts. ED is aware that one ESP mailed a post card to its customers, urging them to ask the Commission to approve AL 1264-E.
SDG&E's withdrawal of these advice letters moots the need to address most of the issues raised in protests. The following section includes a more detailed summary of the remaining relevant issues raised in the protests.
3 5. CREC was formerly ARM. Its members include AES NewEnergy, Inc.; AXON Field Solutions; Chevron Energy Solutions; Commonwealth Energy Corp.; Enron Energy Services, Inc.; Green Mountain Energy Company; The New Power Company; Shell Energy Services; and Strategic Energy, L.L.C.
