IT IS ORDERED that:
1. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison Company (Edison), and San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) shall establish preliminary Transition Cost Balancing Accounts in compliance with the general guidelines established in this decision. These pro forma tariffs shall be filed and served in this proceeding by June 27, 1997. Final tariffs shall be filed after the Phase 2 decision.
2. The Energy Division shall convene workshops to address detailed issues of applying the guidelines adopted in this decision and to address specific issues that may arise in implementation of these tariffs. Interested parties shall serve comments on tariff issues raised in the utilities’ filings by July 8, 1997. Preliminary workshops shall be held on July 14, 15, and 16, 1997. These workshops may also be used to address terms and conditions tariff issues, as described in this decision. The Energy Division shall file and serve its workshop report on or before August 22, 1997 and parties will be afforded an opportunity to file and serve comments on the workshop report. The Energy Division shall convene additional tariff workshops in the fall after issuance of the Phase 2 decision if necessary. Further guidance shall be provided by ruling.
3. PG&E, Edison, and SDG&E shall file applications no later than June 1, 1998 to request recovery of transition costs in 1999. Annual transition cost proceedings shall be used to establish the reasonableness of PG&E, Edison, and SDG&E in accelerating recovery of transition costs and in estimating the market value of their assets subject to market valuation.
4. The Energy Division shall convene workshops no later than 45 days following the filing of the applications for 1999 transition cost recovery to address the implementation of these proceedings, including how to streamline such proceedings.
5. PG&E shall modify its departing load tariff to clarify that no competition transition charge will be applied to changes in allocation to load taken under Western Administration Power Association Contract 2948-A.
6. A market rate forecast of 2.4 cents per kilowatt hour shall be used to estimate transition costs for 1998.
7. By July 1, 1997, PG&E, Edison, and SDG&E shall file and serve pro forma tariffs which provide general information on transition costs and the calculation of competition transition charge, as well as specific language delineating particular requirements and terms and conditions for utility service customers, direct access customers, and departing load. Implementation issues may be discussed at the workshops ordered in Paragraph 4.
8. PG&E, Edison, and SDG&E shall follow augmented advice letter procedures, including expanded service and a 30-day protest period, as described in this decision, for filing CTC tariffs and proposing to modifying such tariffs.
9. Final CTC tariffs shall be filed by augmented advice letter filing, as described in this decision, after the Phase 2 decision is issued. Further guidance shall be forthcoming in that decision.
10. PG&E, Edison, and SDG&E shall file applications, as described in this decision, by January 30, 2001 which address the lump-sum payment and periodic payment options for departing load customers.
This order is effective today.
Dated June 11, 1997, at San Francisco, California.
P. GREGORY CONLON
President
JESSIE J. KNIGHT, JR.
HENRY M. DUQUE
JOSIAH L. NEEPER
RICHARD A. BILAS
Commissioners