Background

Under existing ratemaking practices, if a new customer takes bundled service from the utility, the customer incurs no additional direct meter cost. If, however, the customer wishes to take advantage of opportunities available through either direct access or the utility's own time-of-use rates for some sort of time-differentiated energy service, then the customer may incur additional meter costs for the interval meter required to obtain such service.²

In recent proceedings establishing avoided cost credits for Revenue Cycle Services (RCS), TURN presented testimony that recommended changes to the utilities' line and service extension rules.³ The changes proposed by TURN related primarily to the calculation of the allowance that utilities provide to applicants for line and service extensions and the job costs to which an applicant would be allowed to apply the allowance.