HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - May 3, 2000 G-04CITY OF LODI COUNCIL COMMUNICATION
AGENDA TITLE: Notice From Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Company Of Changes In Proposed Gas Rates
MEETING DATE: May 3, 2000
PREPARED BY: Interim City Clerk
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Information only, no action required.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
FUNDING: None
The City Clerk's Office has received a notice from Pacific Gas & Electric
(PG&E) Company of changes in proposed gas rates (Exhibit A). This is
information only, no Council action is required.
Ja ueline L. Taylo
Interim City Clerk
APPROVED:
H. D' on Flynn -- City Manager
Pacific Gas and EXHIBIT JA
Electric Company
i'
J. Michael Raidenbach
ttorvi. a.
April 13, 2004
TO STATE, COUNTY AND CITY OFFICIALS:
NOTICE OF CHANGES IN PROPOSED GAS RATES
On April 3, 2000, Pacific Gas and Electric Company ("the company") asked the
California Public Utilities Commission ("CPUC") to approve a decrease in natural gas
rates for the two-year period beginning January 1, 2001 (Application No. 00-04-002).
The net result of these proposed changes will be to decrease the average bundled
residential customers' rates by 3.5 percent and to decrease average bundled commercial
customers' rates by 9.5 percent. The average transportation rates for other customers will
decrease by 11.4 percent. These rates are compared to rates in effect March 1, 2000.
Electric rates are not affected.
The proposal decreases gas transportation revenues by $132 million compared to
transportation revenues from rates in effect today. The rates that customers pay the
company for gas purchases change monthly and are not changed by this application.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is proposing rates that recover the CPUC -authorized
costs of serving customers on our gas distribution system. We are also proposing new
gas demand forecasts, cost allocation and rate design proposals that we believe will result
in rates that more closely reflect the cost to provide service to customers. Rates adopted
by the CPUC for individual customer classes may be higher or lower than our initial
proposal.
If approved by the CPUC, gas rates would change as shown below and take effect
January 1, 2 00 1. The specific rate changes are shown in the following table:
PROPOSED GAS RATE CHANGES
($/therm)
Customer Class
Present
Proposed
% Chanae
BUNDLED CORE
Residential
$.684
$.660
-3.5%
Small Commercial
$.659
$.594
-9.7%
Targe Commercial
$.472
$.465
-1.3%
NONCORE TRANSPORT
FIRM BAJA PATH (1)
Industrial Distribution
$.128
$.104
-18.5%
Industrial Transmission
$.042
$.038
-8.7%
Cogeneration
$.036
$.033
-9.7%
Electric Generation
$.036
$.033
-9.7%
Wholesale - Coalinga
$.038
$.035
-8.4%
Wholesale - Palo Alto
$.035
$.032
-9.1%
Wholesale - West Coast Gas
$.041
$.038
-7.8%
Wholesale - Island Energy
$.061
$.058
-5.2%
Wholesale - Alpine Natural Gas
$.038
$.035
-8.3%
(1) Noncore Rates include $0.017 of annual firm backbone transportation on the
Baja path.
If the CPUC approves the company's request, a bundled residential customer with an
average monthly usage of 52 therms per month would see a monthly gas bill decrease of
$1.25, from $35.27 to $34.02. An individual bill may differ depending -on the amount of
energy use.
EVIDENTIARY HEARINGS
The CPUC may hold hearings to receive comments from the company, the CPUC's
Office of Ratepayer Advocates, and other interested parties. Parties at these hearings may
offer proposals that differ from ours. After considering the various proposals, the CPUC
will issue a decision and could adopt a mechanism that is different from what has been
proposed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
If you need more information, or if you want to get copies of the Office of Ratepayers
Advocates' rate proposals when -they are available please write to:
The Office of Ratepayer Advocates
California Public Utilities. Commission
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Mention that you are writing about Application No. 00-04-002, and indicate if you would
like a written response, otherwise no reply will be sent. Your letter will be sent to the
Commission and will become part of the formal correspondence file for the application.
You can get more information from PG&E from J. Michael Reidenbach, by calling him
at (415) 973-2491 or writing him at:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
P.O. Box 7442
San Francisco, CA 94120-7442
"Attention: Application No. 00-04-002
You may review a copy of the Application at our corporate headquarters (77 Beale Street,
31" Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105), at any of our division offices, or at the San
Francisco office of the CPUC. Ask for Application No. 00-04-002.
This notice is given in accordance with the requirements of Rule 24 of the CPUC's Rules
of Practice and Procedure.
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
J. MICHAEL REIDENBACH
Attorney