Despite the efforts of SCE, Comments and ORA and TURN to Discussion. substantially raise the Rate Base, the efforts of the Protestants, their expert, their advocate and their counsel resulted in nothing being added to the Rate Base. 5. The parties negotiated a The Rate Design settlement is described We do not address settlement of the Rate Design in the Decision at pp. 5-6. whether Protestants which was approved by ALJ made substantial Barnett in the Proposed contributions to Decision issued 4/23/12, D.14-10-048 because revised 6/13/12, and adopted in Protestants have not the Decision. Representatives satisfied the of the Protestants and requirements of Protestants’ counsel § 1804(b) and are not participated in the negotiation eligible for and were able to present the compensation. See real life design problems Part I(C), CPUC’s peculiar to Catalina Island, Additional such as: the many multiple Comments and family residences served by a Discussion. single meter; the seasonal water rates driven by tourists, which, in turn, subject the full time residents to the same high rates; and the number of second homes that use water seasonally only and were not bearing their fair share of the fixed cost. Protestants’ counsel convinced SCE, ORA and TURN to support a new Rate Design to solve these inequities. The end result was a much fairer Rate Design that assures that ratepayers in multiple family buildings served by a single meter do not pay for most of the water used at the highest rate, that the seasonal increased rates be limited to those months when tourism was the highest and that second home owners
Despite the efforts of SCE, ORA and TURN to substantially raise the Rate Base, the efforts of the Protestants, their expert, their advocate and their counsel resulted in nothing being added to the Rate Base. Comments and Discussion. 5. The parties negotiated a settlement of the Rate Design which was approved by ALJ Barnett in the Proposed Decision issued 4/23/12, revised 6/13/12, and adopted in the Decision. Representatives of the Protestants and Protestants’ counsel participated in the negotiation and were able to present the real life design problems peculiar to Catalina Island, such as: the many multiple family residences served by a single meter; the seasonal water rates driven by tourists, which, in turn, subject the full time residents to the same high rates; and the number of second homes that use water seasonally only and were not bearing their fair share of the fixed cost. Protestants’ counsel convinced SCE, ORA and TURN to support a new Rate Design to solve these inequities. The end result was a much fairer Rate Design that assures that ratepayers in multiple family buildings served by a single meter do not pay for most of the water used at the highest rate, that the seasonal increased rates be limited to those months when tourism was the highest and that second home owners The Rate Design settlement is described in the Decision at pp. 5-6. We do not address whether Protestants made substantial contributions to D.14-10-048 because Protestants have not satisfied the requirements of § 1804(b) and are not eligible for compensation. See Part I(C), CPUC’s Additional Comments and Discussion.