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                                                          AB 811
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Date of Hearing:   May 19, 1999

              ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 
                    Carole Migden, Chairwoman

          AB 811 (Keeley) - As Amended: April 19, 1999 

Policy Committee:                              U&C  Vote:11-0

Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local  
Program:NoReimbursable:            

  SUMMARY  :

  This bill  , as proposed to be amended, requires the Public  
Utilities Commission (PUC) to modify the methods by which an  
electricity customer's Power Exchange energy credit is  
calculated, as follows:

1)Requires the PUC to implement a methodology by which the  
  credit for a customer with an electric meter capable of  
  recording hourly data is calculated based on that actual data.

2)Prohibits this methodology from resulting in any shifts in  
  cost between customer classes.

3)Allows the electricity customer to choose the methodology  
  calculation or to continue with the current method of  
  determining the credit.

  FISCAL EFFECT  :

Minor, absorbable costs to the PUC to staff a proceeding  
regarding this methodology.

  COMMENTS  :

  Rationale  .  Customers with "real-time" electric meters,  
primarily large-scale manufacturers and other businesses,  
believe that basing the size of a customer's energy credit on  
the actual hourly use data, rather than on average load profiles  
within a customer class, will result in more appropriately-sized  
(larger) credits for some of these customers with real-time  
meters.









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  Analysis Prepared by  :    Steve Archibald / APPR. / (916)319-2081