PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION January 23, 2019 Advice Letter
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION 505 VAN NESS AVENUE January 23, 2019 Advice Letter 5367-E 5367-E-A Erik Jacobson Director, Regulatory Relations Pacific Gas and Electric Company 77 Beale Street, Mail Code B10C P.O. Box 770000 San Francisco, CA 94177 SUBJECT: Request for Approval of the First Amendment to the Updated Agreement between Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) for Specified CPUC Jurisdictional Electrical Services Dear Mr. Jacobson: Advice Letter 5367-E and supplemental 5367-E-A are withdrawn as requested per your letter dated January 18, 2019. Sincerely, Edward Randolph Director, Energy Division Erik Jacobson Pacific Gas and Electric Company Director 77 Beale St., Mail Code B13U Regulatory Relations P.O. Box 770000 San Francisco, CA 94177 Fax: 415-973-3582 August 29, 2018 Advice 5367-E (Pacific Gas and Electric Company ID U 39 E) Public Utilities Commission of the State of California Subject: Request for Approval of the First Amendment to the Updated Agreement between Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) For Specified CPUC Jurisdictional Electrical Services Purpose PG&E hereby submits this advice letter in accordance with General Order (G.O.) 96-B, Section 9.2.3, requesting California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC or Commission) approval of the first amendment (Amendment) to the Updated Agreement between BART and PG&E (parties) for Specified CPUC Jurisdictional Electrical Services1. In August of 2017, BART requested that the parties address the following proposed modifications to terms in the Updated Agreement: • Memorialize that BART would exercise its right to convert its continuing monthly cost of ownership charges for the 701.8(d) Facilities identified in Exhibit E by making the equivalent one-time payment of the customer-financed option specified in Electric Rule No. 2. • Extension of the deadline to provide information for projects that BART wishes to be eligible to provide Offsetting Excess Generation; • Addition of locations to be included in BART’s Conjunctive Billing; and • Extension of the deadlines to review and reconcile the Asset Ownership for traction power facilities. Following BART’s request, the parties reached agreement on certain modifications to the Updated Agreement to address these points. The modifications are memorialized in the Amendment to the Updated Agreement and are summarized below: 1 The Updated Agreement and detailed information can be found in Advice 4923-E and 4923-E- A. Advice 5367-E - 2 - August 29, 2018 1. BART will pay an equivalent one-time payment which is the present worth of the monthly cost-of-ownership charges for the 701.8(d) Facilities identified in Exhibit “E” of the amendment. 2. Date extended to April 1st, 2018 for BART to provide locations and capacities of projects BART wishes to be eligible for Offsetting Excess Generation. 3. Dates extended to December 15th, 2017 and March 31st, 2018, respectively, for BART and PG&E to i) meet and confer on asset ownership, and ii) finalize agreement on asset ownership. 4. Added four Station Power Locations (Exhibit B) and forty-eight Miscellaneous Power Locations (Exhibit C) for Conjunctive Billing. 5. Exhibits “B”, “C” and “E” of the Updated Agreement were replaced in their entirety with Exhibits “B”, “C” and “E” attached to this amendment. With the exception of these modifications, all of the terms and conditions in the Updated Agreement remain in full force and effect. The revised exhibits attached to the Amendment have been modified (Attachment 2) as follows: • Exhibit B – The entire list, including four newly added Station Power Locations, has been alphabetized and reference numbers have been removed from the exhibit. Addition Exhibit B edits include: o Bay Point Station - Added footnote and added “& Parking Structure” to the station name. o Lake Merritt – Removed “Network” from columns titled “Voltage At Point of Delivery” and “Voltage At Point-of-Metering”. • Exhibit C - A total of forty-eight Miscellaneous Power Locations for Conjunctive Billing were added. Forty-five of the added Miscellaneous Power Locations were included at the bottom of the list and three of the Miscellaneous Power Locations were incorporated into the existing list next to similar or nearby facilities. Reference numbers have been deleted. o Slatten-Ranch Rd. – No values listed because these are unmetered streetlights. • Exhibit E – The information has been revised to reflect the conversion of continuing monthly cost of ownership charges for 701.8(d) Facilities identified in Exhibit E to the equivalent one-time payment of the customer-financed option specified in Electric Rule No. 2. o Added item 1 o Miscellaneous edits to item 2 through 5 to refer to additional facilities that may be installed in the future, other than those identified in Exhibit E. o Deleted matrix columns titled Cost Basis, Rate and Monthly Charge Advice 5367-E - 3 - August 29, 2018 Background On September 23, 2016, PG&E submitted Advice Letter (AL) 4923-E requesting approval of an Updated Agreement between PG&E and BART for Specified CPUC Jurisdictional Electrical Services. On December 13, 2016 PG&E submitted a supplemental AL 4923- E-A to provide additional details on the difference between the requested Updated Agreement and the existing CPUC Agreement. The Commission approved the Updated Agreement on December 16, 2016. The modifications in the Amendment are intended to memorialize the current status of the Updated Agreement, including BART’s election to convert the monthly cost of ownership charges by making the equivalent one-time payment and updating the schedules and exhibits. Except as modified in the Amendment, the terms and conditions of the Updated Agreement remain in full force and effect. Protests Anyone wishing to protest this submittal may do so by letter sent via U.S. mail, facsimile or E-mail, no later than September 18, 2018, which is 20 days after the date of this submittal. Protests must be submitted to: CPUC Energy Division ED Tariff Unit 505 Van Ness Avenue, 4th Floor San Francisco, California 94102 Facsimile: (415) 703-2200 E-mail: [email protected] Copies of protests also should be mailed to the attention of the Director, Energy Division, Room 4004, at the address shown above. The protest shall also be sent to PG&E either via E-mail or U.S. mail (and by facsimile, if possible) at the address shown below on the same date it is mailed or delivered to the Commission: Erik Jacobson Director, Regulatory Relations c/o Megan Lawson Pacific Gas and Electric Company 77 Beale Street, Mail Code B13U P.O. Box 770000 San Francisco, California 94177 Facsimile: (415) 973-3582 E-mail: [email protected] Advice 5367-E - 4 - August 29, 2018 Any person (including individuals, groups, or organizations) may protest or respond to an advice letter (General Order 96-B, Section 7.4). The protest shall contain the following information: specification of the advice letter protested; grounds for the protest; supporting factual information or legal argument; name, telephone number, postal address, and (where appropriate) e-mail address of the protestant; and statement that the protest was sent to the utility no later than the day on which the protest was submitted to the reviewing Industry Division (General Order 96-B, Section 3.11). Effective Date PG&E requests that this Tier 2 advice letter submittal become effective on September 28, 2018, which is 30 calendar days after the date of filing. Notice In accordance with General Order 96-B, Section IV, a copy of this advice letter is being sent electronically and via U.S. mail to parties shown on the attached list. Address changes to the General Order 96-B service list should be directed to PG&E at email address [email protected]. For changes to any other service list, please contact the Commission’s Process Office at (415) 703-2021 or at [email protected]. Send all electronic approvals to [email protected]. Advice letter filings can also be accessed electronically at: http://www.pge.com/tariffs/. /S/ Erik Jacobson Director, Regulatory Relations Attachment 1 – First Amendment to the Updated Agreement Attachment 2 – Updated Agreement redline illustrating revisions Attachment 3 – Tariffs CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION ADVICE LETTER FILING SUMMARY ENERGY UTILITY MUST BE COMPLETED BY UTILITY (Attach additional pages as needed) Company name/CPUC Utility No. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (ID U39 E) Utility type: Contact Person: Yvonne Yang ELC GAS Phone #: (415) 973-2094 PLC HEAT WATER E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] EXPLANATION OF UTILITY TYPE (Date Filed/ Received Stamp by CPUC) ELC = Electric GAS = Gas PLC = Pipeline HEAT = Heat WATER = Water Advice Letter (AL) #: 5367-E Tier: 2 Subject of AL: Request for Approval of the First Amendment to the Updated Agreement between Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) For Specified CPUC Jurisdictional Electrical Services Keywords (choose from CPUC listing): Agreements AL filing type: Monthly Quarterly Annual One-Time Other _____________________________ If AL filed in compliance with a Commission order, indicate relevant Decision/Resolution #: N/A Does AL replace a withdrawn or rejected AL? If so, identify the prior AL: No Summarize differences between the AL and the prior withdrawn or rejected AL: ____________________ Is AL requesting confidential treatment? If so, what information is the utility