Intrastate Transmission | | |
Create firm, tradable intrastate transmission rights | | |
Establish a secondary market for intrastate transmission              capacity | | |
Place the utility at-risk for unused resources | | |
Establish Hector Road as a delivery point on SoCalGas’ system | | |
Publish SoCalGas windowing criteria in tariffs | | | (Immediate Resolution)
Utility divestiture of transmission assets | | |
Create an Independent Operator for the Intrastate transmission system | | |
Address PG&E’s 1997-98 Redwood capacity auction | | | (Is being addressed in a separate proceeding)
Develop clear procedures for allocating capacity | | |
Storage | | |
Grant SoCalGas unlimited pricing flexibility | | |
Create firm, tradable storage rights | | |
Establish a secondary market for intrastate storage capacity | | |
Place the utility at-risk for unused resources | | |
Utility divestiture of storage assets | | |
Balancing | | |
Examine strategies for devoting more assets to PG&E balancing | | |
Examine structural means for SoCalGas to provide balancing services without drawing on core assets | | |
Implement daily balancing | | |
Cost and rate separation for balancing services | | |
Electronic trading of imbalances | | |
Implement targeted Operational Flow Orders | | |
Hub Services | | |
Separate utility hub services from procurement functions | | |
Core Procurement | | |
Eliminate the utility role in core procurement | | |
Re-examine utility role in core procurement once a specified competitor market share has been achieved | | |
Eliminate Core Aggregation Transportation thresholds after adoption of consumer protection measures | | |
Unbundle utility interstate capacity costs for core customers | | |
Unbundle utility storage costs for core customers | | |
Eliminate Core Subscription service | | |
Separate costs and rates for core utility services.  Treat utility core procurement departments as any other utility customer | | |
Replace core and noncore customer classes with firm and non-firm service | | |
Information | | |
Provide real-time, customer-specific information | | |
Provide details of completed transactions | | |
Establish a secondary market via a utility electronic bulletin board | | |
Provide pipeline operator demand forecasts broken down by customer class | | |
Revenue Cycle Services | | |
Separate costs and rates for meters, meter reading or servicing, or after-meter services | | |
Provide for competitive metering technologies | | |
Provide competitive billing options to customers similar to those offered in the electric industry | | |
Consumer Protections | | |
Require gas service provider registration | | | (Requires Legislation)
Adopt standards of technical, operational and financial capability | | | (Requires Legislation)
Specify consequences of a firm’s failure to meet prescribed standards | | | (Requires Legislation)
Require gas services providers to provide potential customers with a written notice of price, terms and conditions | | | (Requires Legislation)
Adopt a standard bill format | | | (Requires Legislation)
Require service providers to file a standard service plan | | | (Requires Legislation)
Adopt third-party verification procedures | | | (Requires Legislation)
Define information confidentiality guidelines | | | (Requires Legislation)
Provide for complaint resolution | | | (Requires Legislation)
Provide for customer education | | | (Requires Legislation)
Establish a rate-comparison pricing database | | | (Requires Legislation)
Statewide Consistency | | |
Resolve statewide inconsistencies in services, tariffs, or procedures, where relevant | | |