Examples of Rate Case Plan in a sentence
When a settlement pertains to a proceeding under a Rate Case Plan or other proceeding in which a comparison exhibit would ordinarily be filed, the motion must be supported by a comparison exhibit indicating the impact of the settlement in relation to the utility’s application and, if the participating staff supports the settlement, in relation to the issues staff contested, or would have contested, in a hearing.
SJWC has shown that the 2015 escalation calculation submitted with its Advice Letter No. 467 was corrected by the Commission’s Division of Water & Audits such that pension expense was not escalated to make it consistent with the procedures outlined in the Commission’s Rate Case Plan.
The Rate Case Plan identifies certain activities associated with processing a GRC and specifies the dates by which these activities should occur.
On November 14, 2013, the California Public Utilities Commission (Commission) opened Rulemaking (R.) 13-11-006, Order Instituting Rulemaking to Develop a Risk-Based Decision-Making Framework to Evaluate Safety and Reliability Improvements and Revise the Rate Case Plan for Energy Utilities (the Risk OIR).
The Water Rate Case Plan requires Water Division to host a technical conference following the submission of a case “to review the ratemaking models used by the parties in the case in order to assist the Presiding Officer in the preparation of tables for the Proposed Decision.”200 In GRCs, this decision piggybacks on these mechanisms, and requires the same entity responsible for generating the Results of Operations for the revenue authorized in the Proposed Decision to also generate affordability metrics.
The Water Division must inform the Commission if it finds that the revised rates do not conform to the Revised Rate Case Plan, this decision, or other Commission decisions, and if so, reject the filing.
In its Opening Brief, Farm Bureau makes a reasonable case that SDG&E’s proposal is not appropriate for a rate design window proceeding:15 Because SDG&E’s far-reaching proposal reaches all customers, the question of whether it is even appropriate for a Rate Design Window consistent with the Rate Case Plan must be addressed [footnote omitted].
Finally, Great Oaks notes that while the Rate Case Plan mandates a three-year cycle, it does not require a uniform start date for a rate cycle.
However, it is not feasible to constantly update all data in a GRC.74 In some instances, it may be reasonable to apply updated data and, overall, the Commission will continue to use the 2020 base year data, consistent with the Rate Case Plan.
In 1989, in D.89-01-040, the Commission modified the Rate Case Plan in several ways, including establishing the phasing of GRCs and creating the annual rate design window proceedings.