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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING
FORMAL CASE NO. 1002, IN THE MATTER OF THE JOINT APPLICATION OF PEPCO AND THE NEW RC, INC. FOR AUTHORIZATION AND APPROVAL OF MERGER TRANSACTION
1. The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia (“Commission”) hereby gives notice of its final rulemaking action, taken in Order No. 15612, to approve, pursuant to Section 2-505 of the District of Columbia Official Code, the tariff of the Potomac Electric Power Company (“Pepco”).
2. In its filing, Pepco asserts that the revisions reflect “the current Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (‘FERC’) approved transmission rates, which went into effect June 1, 2009.”[1] Pepco also indicates that the new rate schedules for retail transmission rates “reflect the changes in the wholesale transmission rates in the Company’s retail transmission rates.”[2] Specifically, Pepco proposes to amend the following five (13) tariff pages:
ELECTRICITY TARIFF, P.S.C.-D.C. No. 1
Forty-Seventh Revised Page No. R-1
Forty-Seventh Revised Page No. R-2
Fortieth Revised Page No. R-2.1
Sixteenth Revised Page No. R-2.2
Tenth Revised Page No. R-41
Tenth Revised Page No. R-41.1
Tenth Revised Page No. R-41.2
Tenth Revised Page No. R-41.3
Tenth Revised Page No. R-41.4
Tenth Revised Page No. R-41.5
Tenth Revised Page No. R-41.6
Tenth Revised Page No. R-41.7
Ninth Revised Page No. R-41.8.
3. The Commission issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) which was published in the D.C. Register on August 7, 2009.[3] No comments were filed in response to the NOPR. By Order No, 15612, the Commission approved PEPCO’s proposed tariff. The application of the revised retail transmission rates shall commence with the billing cycle beginning on January 1, 2010.
[1] Formal Case No. 1002, In the Matter of the Joint Application of PEPCO and the New RC, Inc. for Authorization and Approval of Merger Transaction, Letter from Deborah M. Royster, Deputy General Counsel, PEPCO, to Dorothy Wideman, Secretary, Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia (July 15, 2009).
[2] Id.
[3] 55 D.C. Reg. 6217-6218 (Aug. 7, 2009).
