5/9/07 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-28-06-00010-A
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following action:
Action taken:
The commission, on April 18, 2007, approved an order requiring the major electric utilities to file rate design proposals to reduce or eliminate recovery of utility fixed delivery costs and marginal consumptions blocks and to file revenue decoupling proposals.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, sections 5(2), 65(1), 66(1) and (12)
Subject:
Potential electric delivery rates disincentives.
Purpose:
To assess the potential electric delivery rate disincentives against the promotion of energy efficiency, renewable technologies and distribution generation.
Substance of final rule:
The Public Service Commission approved an order directing The Brooklyn Union Gas Company d/b/a KeySpan Energy Delivery New York, Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Corning Natural Gas Corporation, KeySpan Gas East Corporation d/b/a KeySpan Energy Delivery Long Island, National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation, New York State Electric & Gas Corporation, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation d/b/a National Grid, Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation and St. Lawrence Gas Company, Inc. to develop proposals for ture-up based delivery service revenue decoupling mechanisms for consideration in individual utility rate cases, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the order.
Final rule compared with proposed rule:
No changes.
Text of rule may be obtained from:
Central Operations, Public Service Commission, Bldg. 3, 14th Fl., Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223-1350, by fax to (518) 474-9842, by calling (518) 474-2500. An IRS employer ID no. or social security no. is required from firms or persons to be billed 25 cents per page. Please use tracking number found on last line of notice in requests.
Assessment of Public Comment
An assessment of public comment is not submitted with this notice because the rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.
