fouryear, phaseout of the PCIA exemption for the customers who currently receive it. CCEA and ORA support similar relief. The Joint Utilities oppose any phasein and argue that the Commission should not consider bill impacts. The parties on both sides of this issue present their arguments about bill impacts in a muddled fashion that is of little assistance to the Commission. Advocates of a phasein calculate their estimated bill impacts incorrectly by representing the impact of new PCIA charges in relation to only the utilities’ portion of the customer bill, not the entire bill, but appear to be relying on calculations provided by the utilities themselves. The Joint Utilities readily fault these parties for this error, but provide no alternative calculations for our consideration. We provide here what we consider to be properly calculated bill impacts due to the removal of the PCIA exemption for CARE and MB customers in Lancaster. These calculations serve as the basis for our evaluation of parties’ phasein proposals. The following assumptions are used in the calculations, and have been taken from CforAT’s opening brief (those assumptions, in turn, are taken from the jointly submitted exhibits in this proceeding, as cited below): The average bundled service CARE customer in Climate Zone 14 (where Lancaster is located) uses 617 kWh per month. The average bundled service Medical Baseline customer in Climate Zone 14 uses 900 kWh per month. SCE’s forecast 2018 PCIA for the 2014 Vintage was $0.01889 per kWh as of October 10, 2017. SCE’s baseline “delivery rate” for CARE customers was $0.03453 per kWh, and the rate for usage between 101% and 400% of baseline was $0.09126 per kWh as of October 10, 2017. SCE’s baseline “delivery rate” for MB customers was $0.08722 per kWh as of October 10, 2017.
fouryear, phaseout of the PCIA exemption for the customers who currently receive it. CCEA and ORA support similar relief. The Joint Utilities oppose any phasein and argue that the Commission should not consider bill impacts. The parties on both sides of this issue present their arguments about bill impacts in a muddled fashion that is of little assistance to the Commission. Advocates of a phasein calculate their estimated bill impacts incorrectly by representing the impact of new PCIA charges in relation to only the utilities’ portion of the customer bill, not the entire bill, but appear to be relying on calculations provided by the utilities themselves. The Joint Utilities readily fault these parties for this error, but provide no alternative calculations for our consideration. We provide here what we consider to be properly calculated bill impacts due to the removal of the PCIA exemption for CARE and MB customers in Lancaster. These calculations serve as the basis for our evaluation of parties’ phasein proposals. The following assumptions are used in the calculations, and have been taken from CforAT’s opening brief (those assumptions, in turn, are taken from the jointly submitted exhibits in this proceeding, as cited below): The average bundled service CARE customer in Climate Zone 14 (where Lancaster is located) uses 617 kWh per month. The average bundled service Medical Baseline customer in Climate Zone 14 uses 900 kWh per month. SCE’s forecast 2018 PCIA for the 2014 Vintage was $0.01889 per kWh as of October 10, 2017. SCE’s baseline “delivery rate” for CARE customers was $0.03453 per kWh, and the rate for usage between 101% and 400% of baseline was $0.09126 per kWh as of October 10, 2017. SCE’s baseline “delivery rate” for MB customers was $0.08722 per kWh as of October 10, 2017.
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