issues that had been a subject of not part of the substantial earlier record, did not communication between FOE contribute to the and the Commission, including, Commission’s notably, the cost-effectiveness of decision making continued operation of San process, and did not Onofre. FOE contended substantially repeatedly, both in meetings with contribute to Commissioners' offices before proceeding the OII was initiated, as well as D.14-11-040. As in its filings after the OII was such, FOE’s hours initiated, that the costs of for this work are maintaining San Onofre in the not compensable. future would be substantially greater than the costs of serving FOE was not part ratepayers with readily available of the four-party alternatives. As part of this settlement effort, FOE commissioned two discussions. economic analyses, on from Pursuant to Arjun Makhijani of IEER and the D.94-10-029, the other from Steve Moss of Commission has MCubed. discretion to award compensation to parties who participated in settlement agreements, when there is a finding that they made a substantial contribution to a decision. We award limited hours for this participation based on FOE’s subsequent active support of the settlement agreement. FOE made a major contribution to the resolution of the case, as well. To put it bluntly, FOE,
issues that had been a subject of substantial earlier communication between FOE and the Commission, including, notably, the cost-effectiveness of continued operation of San Onofre. FOE contended repeatedly, both in meetings with Commissioners' offices before the OII was initiated, as well as in its filings after the OII was initiated, that the costs of maintaining San Onofre in the future would be substantially greater than the costs of serving ratepayers with readily available alternatives. As part of this effort, FOE commissioned two economic analyses, on from Arjun Makhijani of IEER and the other from Steve Moss of MCubed. FOE made a major contribution to the resolution of the case, as well. To put it bluntly, FOE, not part of the record, did not contribute to the Commission’s decision making process, and did not substantially contribute to proceeding D.14-11-040. As such, FOE’s hours for this work are not compensable. FOE was not part of the four-party settlement discussions. Pursuant to D.94-10-029, the Commission has discretion to award compensation to parties who participated in settlement agreements, when there is a finding that they made a substantial contribution to a decision. We award limited hours for this participation based on FOE’s subsequent active support of the settlement agreement.
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