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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), 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] hereby gives notice 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, 2011.”[3] Pepco states that the “updated Network Integrated Transmission Service rate is based on the data in the 2010 FERC Form 1 for Pepco, which was filed with the FERC on April 18, 2011.”[4] The “filed wholesale transmission rate for the Pepco Zone effective June 1, 2011[,] is $16,796 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 fourteen thousand three hundred twenty-three dollars ($14,323) per megawatt-year,[6] while the “Schedule 12 Transmission Enhancement Charges due to transmission projects outside of the Pepco Zone” yields a rate two thousand six hundred eighty-three dollars ($2,683) per megawatt-year.[7] “Combining these two (2) rates results in an overall wholesale transmission rate for load in the Pepco Zone of seventeen thousand six dollars ($17,006) 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-Second Revised Page No. R-1
Sixty-Second Revised Page No. R-2
Fifty-Fifth Revised Page No. R-2.1
Thirty-First Revised Page No. R-2.2
Fourteenth Revised Page No. R-41
Fourteenth Revised Page No. R-41.1
Fourteenth Revised Page No. R-41.2
Fourteenth Revised Page No. R-41.3
Fourteenth Revised Page No. R-41.4
Fourteenth Revised Page No. R-41.5
Fourteenth Revised Page No. R-41.6
Fourteenth Revised Page No. R-41.7
Fourteenth 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 Jesse P. Clay, Jr., Acting 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.
[1] D.C. Official Code § 34-802 (2010 Repl.); D.C. Official Code § 2-505 (2006 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 Deborah M. Royster, Deputy General Counsel, Potomac Electric Power Company, to Jesse P. Clay, Jr., Acting Commission Secretary, Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia (July 11, 2011) (“Pepco Letter”) as amended on Aug. 11 and Sept. 2, 2011.
[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.”
