4. Issues Before the Commission
In its Application, SCE characterizes the major issue before the Commission as follows:
SCE seeks approval to incorporate a price-responsive element into the SDP for its 330,000 existing residential customers and seeks $26.6 million in incremental funding for 2011 and 2012 to make this possible.33
Consistent with the controlling statutes, the Commission's review will determine whether SCE has provided information that shows that the resulting rates and terms of service are just and reasonable and that the resulting program remains supportive of the policy of encouraging the use of "cost effective, reliable and feasible"34 DR programs as an asset in meeting California energy needs.
In addition, the Scoping Memo grouped the issues identified by DRA as follows (quoting directly):
2. issues associated with the recovery of the costs of the SDP program;
3. issues associated with the cost-effectiveness of the SDP program;
4. issues associated with the level of program costs; and
5. issues associated with the details of the changes to the SDP program.35
The resolution of these issues will enable the Commission to determine whether the proposals to modify the SDP are just and reasonable.
33 Application at 1. Also see Scoping Memo at 6.
34 § 454.5(b)(9)(C).
35 Scoping Memo at 6.
