COM/CXW/MSW/eap DRAFT Item 4

12/7/2000

Decision DRAFT DECISION OF COMMISSIONER WOOD
(Mailed 11/17/2000)

BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Order Instituting Investigation into the Functioning of the Wholesale Electric Market and Associated Impact on Retail Rates.

Investigation 00-08-002 (Filed August 3, 2000)

OPINION ON VOLUNTARY RATE STABILIZATION PROGRAM

FOR LARGE COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, AND INDUSTRIAL CUSTOMERS OF SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY

1. Summary

Pursuant to legislative direction in § 332.1(f)¹, the Commission establishes a voluntary program in which large commercial, agricultural, and industrial customers of San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) may elect, on a voluntary basis, to have the energy component of their bills set at six and five-tenths cents ($.065) per kilowatt-hour (kWh), subject to true-up.