BGE Files Rider to Collect Previously Mitigated Costs from SOS Customers

Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed a tariff rider (Rider 29) to recover from Schedule G and GS Type II customers the Standard Offer Service (SOS) costs which should have been collected in 2008, but which were mitigated by the Maryland PSC in an action later determined to be unlawful by the courts. According to BGE's filing, the Schedules G and GS Type II adjustments are, "applicable to the SOS rates."

See 8/11 for background on the prior mitigation

The Rider, the result of a recent PSC bench order, also credits to all non-residential distribution customers the same mitigation costs that those customers were required to incur during the mitigation period, which was from June 1 – August 30, 2008.

Rider 29 would collect (and credit back) the formerly mitigated charges over a 12-month period, subject to a final true-up.

The Type II Generation Market-Priced Service rates for Schedules G and GS Customers will be adjusted by adding the following amounts from the October 2011 through September 2012 billings:

Schedule G Type II: $0.01062/kWh

Schedule GS Type II: $0.01336/kWh

During this same period, all non-residential distribution sales will receive a credit of $0.00038/kWh.

The rates reflect simple interest on the actual mitigated revenue based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI): Urban Consumer – All Items (1982-84=100).