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CenterPoint-TDU Further Discusses Envisioned Operation Of Enrolling Customers Onto New Low-Income Discount Rate, New REP Responsibilities
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CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric (CEHE) has provided further information, via a response to an RFI from the Texas Energy Association for Marketers (TEAM), concerning its proposed low-income customer rate (discount) under Rider TEEEF, which collects the costs of Temporary Emergency Electric Energy Facilities used by CEHE
As previously reported, in its initial testimony, CEHE said that the potential low-income discount program could identify customers that are receiving Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) aid in the Company’s service area, who would be eligible to apply for an alternate TEEEF rate. Those customers receiving LIHEAP would have an opportunity to apply to have the TEEEF rate excluded from their CenterPoint Houston charges.
Further, CEHE said in its initial testimony, "The Company is proposing that customers would apply annually through their REP."
In a June 2023 response to an earlier RFI from TEAM, a witness for CEHE had said, "If parties and the Commission decide to consider this methodology, I envision that REPs offering
rates that directly pass through their TDU charges to customers would collect the information of
customers who wish to participate, their information would be validated against a list of
customers receiving LIHEAP assistance, and the REP would send a list of validated customers
via MarkeTrak to CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, then the Company would make the
necessary billing changes needed to suppress TEEEF charges for those customers."
That prompted TEAM to issue the following additional RFI: "Please admit or deny whether CenterPoint [TDU] is willing to be solely
responsible for:
a. Identifying the customers that qualify for the low-income rate adjustment; and
b. Maintaining a list of eligible customers."
CEHE provided the following response to TEAM's latest RFI:
"a. Deny. The low-income program idea addressed in my testimony did not contemplate CenterPoint
Energy identifying and enrolling eligible customers.
"b. CenterPoint Energy is willing to maintain a list of customers that have demonstrated eligibility for
a low-income rate adjustment."
A CEHE witness also noted in another response to an RFI, "The idea for an alternative low-income program was developed organically through conversations
with stakeholders. There was no formal request to propose a low-income program. I included the
concept and an allocation methodology in my testimony as a starting point for parties to discuss the
feasibility of implementing a low-income program, or to use as a basis to propose an alternate low-income
program."
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