BILL NUMBER: AB 811	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 12, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 19, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 7, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Keeley

                        FEBRUARY 24, 1999

   An act to add Section 367.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 811, as amended, Keeley.  Electrical restructuring.
   The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission
to recover uneconomic costs associated with electrical deregulation,
including transition costs, as defined, to be allocated as
prescribed.  The act requires that individual customers not
experience rate increases as a result of the allocation of transition
costs.
   This bill would require the commission to implement a methodology
whereby the Power Exchange energy credit for a customer with a meter
 , installed on or after January 1, 2000, that is  capable
of recording hourly data  is   be 
calculated based on the actual hourly data for that customer.
 The   For customers with meters, as prescribed,
installed before January 1, 2000, the  bill would require the
energy credit  , on a one-time basis before January 30, 2000,
 to be  the sum of the products of the Power Exchange
energy costs authorized by the commission and the actual hourly
recorded usage of the customer for each hour in the billing period.
  based on either the actual hourly data for the
customer or the average load profile for that customer class, as
prescribed.  This bill would require recovery of any costs of
developing the methodology of energy credit payment to be recoverable
through rates for that customer class.   The bill would provide
that the methodology shall not result in any shifts in cost between
customer classes and shall be consistent with a specified provision
of existing law.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 367.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   367.5.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this
section to ensure that individual customers do not experience rate
increases as a result of the allocation of transition costs, in
accordance with paragraph (2) of subdivision (e) of Section 367.
   (b) The commission shall implement a methodology whereby the Power
Exchange energy credit for a customer with a meter  installed on
or after January 1, 2000, that is  capable of recording hourly
data is calculated based on the actual hourly data for that customer.
  The Power Exchange energy credit  shall be equal to the sum
of the products of (1) the Power Exchange energy costs authorized by
the commission, and (2) the actual hourly recorded usage of the
customer for each hour in the billing period.
   (c)    for a customer with a meter installed before
January 1, 2000, that is capable of recording hourly data shall, at
the election of the customer, on a one-time basis before January 30,
2000, be calculated based on either (1) the actual hourly data for
that customer or (2) the average load profile for that customer
class.  If the customer fails to make an election, that customer's
Power Exchange credit shall continue to be based on the average load
profile for that customer class.
   (c) Additional billing costs incurred as a result of the
methodology developed by the commission pursuant to subdivision (b)
shall be recoverable through rates for that customer class.
   (d)  The methodology developed by the commission pursuant to
subdivision (b) shall not result in any shifts in cost between
customer classes and shall be consistent with the firewall provision
set forth in subdivision (e) of Section 367.