THEREFORE IT IS ORDERED THAT:

1. Advice Letter 1249-E is approved, noting that it was revised by a subsequent advice letter filing as authorized by D.00-12-024.

2. Advice Letters 1254-E and 1260-E-A are approved with the expanded eligibility and customer notice modifications described in this Resolution.

3. SDG&E shall continue to display each month on the bills of all eligible customers, the Electric Energy Rate Adjustment (EERA) and the Retroactive Rate Ceiling Adjustment (RRCA).

4. Direct access customers shall be exempt from future recovery of costs, including carrying charges, associated with Section 332.1 (b) rate ceiling benefits.

5. To promote our conservation objectives, we will extend the rate stabilization plan eligibility to include commercial customers that manage their load below the 100 kW threshold but in no other way modify existing peak load definitions. Therefore, SDG&E shall extend Section 332.1 (b) rate ceiling benefits on a month-by-month basis to commercial customers by request that achieve load below 100 kW, retroactive to June 2000.

6. Commercial customers that do not request inclusion under the expanded eligibility provision contained in ordering paragraph 5 shall not be included in the plan and shall be exempt from future recovery of costs associated with Section 332.1 (b) rate ceiling benefits.

7. Within 10 days of the effective date of this Resolution, SDG&E shall file an advice letter implementing this Order. This advice letter shall include a draft informational letter to customers explaining the provisions of this order. Energy Division, ORA, and the Public Advisor's office shall review the draft informational letter. This advice letter shall become effective subject to Energy Division's finding that it is compliant with this Order.

8. SDG&E shall file an advice letter within 10 days of the effective date of this Resolution to modify its definition of "Energy Rate Ceiling" (ERC) shown in its tariff Rule 1 to clearly state that the ERC does not apply to Direct Access customers. This advice letter shall be effective on today's date subject to Energy Division determining that it is compliant with this Order.

9. The protests of TPC on ALs 1254-E, 1264-E, and 1264-E-A and Scripps' protest on AL 1254-E all apply to AL 1264-E-A. To the extent these protests oppose SDG&E's plan to include DA customers in the expanded rate stabilization plan adopted in D.00-09-040, they are granted. All other aspects of these protests are denied.

10. The protest of Mr. Cornett on AL 1264-E-A is granted to the extent that it opposes SDG&E's plan to include DA customers in the expanded rate stabilization plan adopted in D.00-09-040. All other aspects of Mr. Cornett's protest are denied.

11. ORA's protest to AL 1264-E is granted to the extent that this Order adopts the review procedure recommended by ORA for the draft informational letter to SDG&E's customers required herein. ORA's protest is denied in all other respects.

12. Utility.com's suggested change to the billing information proposed by SDG&E in AL 1264-E as modified in AL 1264-E-A is denied as moot.

13. In response to CRA's concern about differing meter set-ups affecting plan eligibility, we direct SDG&E to report to Energy Division within 30 days the identity and number of business customers with multiple meters and, to the extent possible from its database, the kW billed to each of those meters.

14. Comments received by parties to the Draft and Alternate Resolutions are resolved as described in the Comments Section of this Resolution.

This Resolution is effective today.

I certify that the foregoing resolution was duly introduced, passed and adopted at a conference of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California held on July 12, 2001; the following Commissioners voting favorably thereon:

Executive Director

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