In D.97-05-040, the Commission ordered the investor-owned electrical corporations to hold a workshop with other interested parties to develop statistical load profile methodologies.1 We noted the following:
"The load profile will be used by the scheduling coordinator or marketer to determine the customer's hourly consumption. The load profile will also be used by the ISO [independent system operator] to determine the generation the scheduling coordinator must provide....
"We will allow residential customers, small and medium size commercial and agricultural customers, and other customers, whose accounts have a maximum demand of less than 20 kW to engage in direct access transactions through use of statistical load profiles. The ability to use statistical load profiles to estimate the hourly consumption of small accounts, instead of requiring hourly interval meters for all direct access contracts, will facilitate the aggregation of small accounts and small customers." (D.97-05-040, p. 40, fn. omitted.)
A pre-workshop meeting was held on May 23, 1997, to identify the workshop issues and parties that were interested in presenting proposals at the workshop. The workshop was held on June5, 1997. At the workshop, the UDCs presented a proposal for developing and using load profiles beginning on January1, 1998. Thirteen other parties also presented proposals at the workshop. Those proposals were made available to other parties on the direct access implementation web site of the Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA).2 A member of the Board of Governors of the Independent System Operator (ISO) was also invited to address the workshop participants on how statistical load profiles would impact the ISO and the power exchange (PX). The "Report On June5, 1997 Direct Access Workshop On Load Profiling" (Workshop Report) was prepared by PG&E, SDG&E, and Edison and filed with the Commission on June16, 1997.
During the June 5, 1997 workshop, PG&E, SDG&E, and Edison agreed to make load profile data available for current rate categories on August1, 1997. (Workshop Report, p. 12.) In addition, the attendees at the workshop agreed to meet again to discuss the issue of whether customers whose peak demand falls between 20 to 50 kW should be exempt from the direct access metering requirement. (Workshop Report, pp. 27-28.)3
A subsequent meeting was held July 16, 1997 to discuss whether an exemption from the metering requirement should apply to customers with a maximum demand of 20 to 50 kW. The UDCs filed the "Supplement To The Report On The June5, 1997 Direct Access Workshop On Load Profiling: Eligibility Issues" (Eligibility Supplement) on July25, 1997. The Eligibility Supplement addresses what should be done with customers who fall in the 20 to 50 kW range. Comments to the Eligibility Supplement were filed by several of the parties on August 8, 1997.
On August 11, 1997, Edison filed a motion to accept its comments to the Eligibility Supplement one day out of time. Its comments were attached to the motion. According to the motion, Edison's comments were ready to be filed on August8, but due to traffic problems, the comments were not timely submitted to the Commission's Los Angeles office. No one has objected to Edison's motion. We will grant Edison's motion and direct the Docket Office to file Edison's comments to the Eligibility Supplement as if it was filed on August11.
On August 1, 1997, the UDCs filed the "Supplement To The Report On The June5, 1997 Load Profiling Workshop: Pro Forma Load Profiles" (Profiles Supplement). The Profiles Supplement provided notice that the load profile data for current rate categories were being made available to interested parties, and that the data files were being posted on ORA's web site. The Profiles Supplement also discussed the content and format of the data files that were released.
III. Load Profiling Workshop Report And Supplements
1 We refer to these electrical corporations in this decision as the utility distribution companies or UDCs.
2 The web site address is: http://162.15.5.2/.
3 D.97-05-040 directed that the workshop address whether load profiles should be developed for customers whose maximum demand is equal to or greater than 20 kW but less than 50 kW.
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