5. 2003 AEAP

Utility applications for the 2003 AEAP are expected May 1, 2003. At the PHC, the utilities and interested parties recommended consolidating the 2003 AEAP into this proceeding. However, I believe that the Commission should wait until the 2003 AEAP applications are actually filed and the schedule for the pending applications in this consolidated proceeding has been finalized, before acting on that recommendation. Accordingly, the schedule set forth in Attachment 1 does not include the 2003 AEAP.

Nonetheless, there was some discussion about the scope of the 2003 AEAP at the PHC that warrants reiteration. In particular, the utilities and interested parties should expect that the Commission will consider the results of the 2002 LIEE load impact study in that proceeding, in order to update the performance earnings basis of the existing LIEE incentive mechanism for prospective earnings.¹³

IT IS RULED that:

1. Within 10 days from the date of this ruling, the following information shall be filed and served:

(a) The Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) shall indicate the type of review of load impact and retention studies it plans to conduct in this proceeding, if none is indicated for a particular study in the utilities' March 17, 2003 filing.

(b) For post-1997 earnings claims, ORA, the California Energy Commission, and The Utility Reform Network shall indicate, by milestone and program year claim, which milestone-related earnings claims for the 2000 and 2001 Annual Earnings Assessment Proceedings (AEAPs) have been reviewed in intervenor testimony or comments to date, which have not, and how the gaps in review are going to be filled by subsequent intervenor testimony.

(c) ORA shall present a schedule for its work plan related to post-1997 earnings claims that bifurcates its review of the 2000 and 2001 AEAPs from the 2002 AEAP, so that the former can be addressed within the schedule set forth in Attachment 1.

2. Attachment 1 establishes the schedule for this consolidated AEAP. This schedule may be modified or augmented by subsequent rulings.

3. All filings or submittals required by today's ruling shall be filed at the Commission's Docket Office in the above-captioned proceedings and served electronically to all appearances and the state service list. Service by U.S. mail is optional, except that one hard copy shall be mailed to me at PO Box 210, Volcano, California 95689. In addition, if there is no electronic mail address available, the electronic mail is returned to the sender, or the recipient informs the sender of an inability to open the document, the sender shall immediately arrange for alternate service (regular U.S. mail shall be the default, unless another means is mutually agreed upon). The current service list for this proceeding is available on the Commission's web page, www.cpuc.ca.gov.

Dated March 19, 2003, at San Francisco, California.

		/s/ MEG GOTTSTEIN
		Meg Gottstein Administrative Law Judge

	ATTACHMENT 1: CONSOLIDATED AEAP SCHEDULE 1
	LOW-INCOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY (LIEE) CLAIMS		LOAD MANAGEMENT
			COST RECOVERY
	2000 AEAP
	PY99 LIEE First Claim
	PY98 LIEE Second Claim
	PY99 LIEE Collection
	2001 AEAP	2002 AEAP	2002 AEAP
	PY00 LIEE First Claim	PY01 LIEE First Claim	PY01 Cost Recovery
	PY99 LIEE Second Claim	PY02 LIEE Second Claim	(SCE, SDG&E, PG&E)
ORA/Intervenor Additional
Comments/Testimony:	March 28, 2003		March 28, 2003
Reply Comments/Testimony	April 4, 2003		April 11, 2003
ALJ Ruling Regarding
Need For Hearings	April 15, 2003		April 15, 2003
Case Management Statmnt	April 28, 2003		April 28, 2003
(if hearings necessary)
Hearings (if necessary)	May 5-9, 2003		May 5-9, 2003
ORA/Intervenor Comments/		June 2, 2003
Testimony
Utility Reply Comments/Testimony		June 16, 2003
ALJ Ruling Regarding		June 20, 2003
Need For Hearings
Case Managemnt Statmnt		July 3, 2003
(if hearings necessary)
Hearings (if necessary)		July 15-18, 2003
1 Unless otherwise indicated, the earnings claims described above are for all four utilities.
	ATTACHMENT 1: CONSOLIDATED AEAP SCHEDULE (CONTINUED) 1
	PRE-1998 ENERGY EFFICIENCY CLAIMS	POST-1997 ENERGY EFFICIENCY CLAIMS
	2000 AEAP	2000 AEAP
	Pre-98 EE in 1998 Second Claim	PY99 EE Claim
	(PG&E, SCE, SoCal)
	Pre-98 EE in 1999 First Claim	2001 AEAP
	(PG&E, SoCal) and	PY00 EE Claim
	PY95 EE Third Claim
			2002 AEAP
	2001 AEAP		PY01 EE Claim
	Pre-98 EE in 1999 Second Claim
	(PG&E, SoCal)
	Pre-98 EE in 2000 First Claim
	(PG&E), and
	PY96 EE Third Claim
	2002 AEAP
	Pre-98 EE in 2000 Second Claim
	(PG&E) and
	PY97 DSM Third Claim
Threshold Issue: To Reopen Shared-Savings
Incentive Mechanism Adopted in D.94-10-059:
Supplemental Info
on Threshold Issue	March 17, 2003
Comments	March 24, 2003	(Schedule to be	(Schedule to be
		developed)	developed)
Replies	April 1, 2003
Assessment of Earnings Claims:
	(Schedule to be developed)
Evidentiary Hearings (tentative)		July 21-25, 2003
Evidentiary Hearings (tentative)			October 7-10, 2003
1 Unless otherwise indicated, the earnings claims described above are for all four utilities.

(END OF ATTACHMENT 1)

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that I have by mail, and by electronic mail, to the parties to which an electronic mail address has been provided, this day served a true copy of the original attached Administrative Law Judge's Ruling on all parties of record in this proceeding or their attorneys of record.

Dated March 19, 2003, at San Francisco, California.

/s/ KE HUANG

Ke Huang

NOTICE

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¹³ RT at 193-194.