3. Load Management Cost Recovery
By D.01-07-029, the Commission adopted modifications to the interruptible tariffs and rotating outage programs of PG&E, SCE and SDG&E, and directed these utilities to establish a Interruptible Load Program Memorandum Account (ILPMA) to track the costs and revenues associated with the programs, as follows:
"The memorandum account shall track all dollars spent above funds authorized in current rates to implement any program, activity, study or report ordered herein. The accounting shall separately identify the cost and revenue associated with each program, activity, study or report (e.g., separately track costs and revenues for the new Bas Interruptible Program, Voluntary Demand Response Program, each curtailment study, each report). Each respondent utility may include interest on the balance. The burden to demonstrate reasonableness for future cost recovery shall be on each respondent utility . . . . Upon a finding of reasonableness, balances in each memorandum account shall be recovered from ratepayers without respect to any policies otherwise in place regarding the end of the rate freeze. Memorandum account balances shall be reviewed in each utility's Annual Earnings Assessment Proceedings."9
Accordingly, the utilities filed requests for cost recovery of ILPMA balances in their 2002 AEAP applications. As I discussed at the PHC and by subsequent e-mail correspondence, additional comments are due March 28, 2003 and reply comments are due April 11, 2003. I have established a schedule for this phase of the proceeding along the same timeline as the 2000 and 2001 AEAP earnings claims for LIEE. (See Attachment 1.)
9 D.01-07-029, as modified by D.01-04-006 and D.01-04-009, Ordering Paragraph 15.
