HomeMy WebLinkAbout20160304Decision Memo.pdfDECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM: KARL T. KLEIN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: MARCH 4, 2016
SUBJECT: ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER’S APPLICATION TO MODIFY
ELECTRIC SERVICE REGULATION 9 – DEPOSITS AND ADVANCE
PAYMENTS, CASE NO. PAC-E-16-06
On February 16, 2016, PacifiCorp dba Rocky Mountain Power applied to the
Commission for an Order authorizing the Company to modify Electric Service Regulation No. 9
– Deposits and Advance Payments. Regulation 9 governs the circumstances under which the
Company can require a customer to: (a) pay in advance before receiving service, with the
Company to credit the payment to the customer’s account at a later date; or (b) make a
reimbursable deposit to secure a future payment or performance.
Regulation 9 currently applies different rules to three distinct customer groups: a
residential group; a small commercial group; and a group combining the large commercial,
industrial, and irrigation customer classes. The Company notes, however, that as of December
15, 2016, the Company’s 58 customers on Schedule 10 – Irrigation and Soil Drainage Pumping
Power Service – had a total balance in arrears of about $1.6 million. Accordingly, with this
Application, the Company seeks to place the irrigation customers in a fourth, irrigation specific
group under Regulation 9. The Company states that the fourth group would contain irrigation
specific rules that will help to further reduce risk and mitigate bad debt expense for the Company
and its customers.
The Company asks the Commission to process the Application under Modified
Procedure, with the proposed changes to take effect on May 16, 2016.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Commission issue a Notice of Application and Notice of
Modified Procedure setting an April 15, 2016 comment deadline, and an April 21, 2016 reply
deadline.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Application and Notice of Modified
Procedure setting an April 15, 2016 comment deadline and an April 21, 2016 reply deadline?
/s/ Karl Klein
Karl Klein
Deputy Attorney General
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