3978860 Formal Case No. 1017, In the Matter of the Development and Designation of Standard Offer Service in the District of Columbia

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING

 

FORMAL CASE NO. 1017, IN THE MATTER OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGNATION OF STANDARD OFFER SERVICE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

1.                  The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia (“Commission”) hereby gives notice, pursuant to section 34-802 of the District of Columbia Official Code and in accordance with section 2-505 of the District of Columbia Official Code,[1] of its intent to act upon the proposed tariff amendment of the Potomac Electric Power Company (“Pepco” or “Company”)[2] in not less than thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) in the D.C. Register.

 

2.                  Pepco’s proposed tariff amendment updates the retail transmission rates included in the Rider Standard Offer Service “to reflect the current Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (‘FERC’) approved wholesale transmission rates, which went into effect [on] June 1, 2012.”[3]  Pepco states that the “updated Network Integrated Transmission Service rate is based on the data in the 2011 FERC Form 1 for Pepco, which was filed with the FERC on April 18, 2012.”[4]  The “filed wholesale transmission rate for the Pepco Zone effective June 1, 2012 is $20,777 per megawatt-year for Network Integrated Transmission Service,” according to the Company.[5]  Specifically, Pepco states that the net of “the Schedule 12 Transmission Enhancement Charges due to projects in the Pepco Zone” yields a rate of $17,441 per megawatt-year,[6] while the “Schedule 12 Transmission Enhancement Charges due to transmission projects outside of the Pepco Zone” yields a rate $3,183 per megawatt-year.[7]  “Combining these two rates results in an overall wholesale transmission rate for load in the Pepco Zone of $20,624 per megawatt-year,” according to the Company. [8]

 

3.                  Specifically, Pepco proposes to amend the following thirteen (13) tariff pages:

 

ELECTRICITY TARIFF, P.S.C.-D.C. No. 1

Sixty-Fifth Revised Page No. R-1

Sixty- Fifth Revised Page No. R-2

Fifty-Eighth Revised Page No. R-2.1

Thirty-Fourth Revised Page No. R-2.2

Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-41

Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-41.1

Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-41.2

Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-41.3

Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-41.4

Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-41.5

Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-41.6

Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-41.7

Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-41.8

 

4.                  The filing may be reviewed at the Office of the Commission Secretary, 1333 H Street, N.W., Second Floor, West Tower, Washington, D.C. 20005, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.  A copy of the proposed tariff amendment is available upon request, at a per-page reproduction cost from the Office of the Commission Secretary or via the Commission’s website at www.dcpsc.org.

 

5.                  Comments on Pepco’s proposed tariff amendment must be made in writing to Brinda Westbrook-Sedgwick, Commission Secretary, at the address above.  All comments must be received within thirty (30) days of the date of publication of this NOPR in the D.C. Register.  Persons wishing to file reply comments may do so no later than forty-five (45) days of the date of publication of the NOPR in the D.C. Register.  Once the comment period has expired, the Commission will take final rulemaking action on Pepco’s filing.

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[1]               D.C. Official Code § 34-802 (2010 Repl.); D.C. Official Code § 2-505 (2011 Repl.).

 

[2]               Formal Case No. 1017, In the Matter of the Development and Designation of Standard Offer Service in the District of Columbia, Letter from Peter E. Meier, Vice President, Legal Services, Potomac Electric Power Company, to Brinda Westbrook-Sedgwick, Commission Secretary, Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia (Sept. 14., 2012) (“Pepco Letter”).

 

[3]               Pepco Letter.

 

[4]               Pepco Letter.

 

[5]               Pepco Letter.  Pepco indicates that this rate is “currently reflected in Attachment H-9 of the PJM Open Access Transmission Tariff.”

 

[6]               Pepco Letter.  See Attachment E.

 

[7]               Pepco Letter.  See Attachment D.

 

[8]               Pepco Letter.  See Attachment A.  Pepco indicates that Attachment A also shows the “corresponding retail transmission revenue requirements.”  The Proposed Rider Standard Offer Service (“SOS”) containing the revised retail rates for Transmission Service is provided at Attachment B.  Also included in Attachment B are the updated Rider SOS “showing additions and deletions from the current Rider ‘SOS.’”  Finally, Pepco indicates that “workpapers showing the details of the rate design calculations are provided as Attachment C.”