Dominion East Ohio Files Changes to Energy Choice Pooling Service Tariff

Dominion East Ohio (DEO) has filed at PUCO to revise its General Terms and Conditions of Energy Choice Pooling Service, including the Energy Choice Pooling Service Agreement, to reflect supplier recommendations and conform to existing practices.

Proposed revisions include:

• DEO proposes to delete language stating when month-end imbalance trading typically occurs, delete parenthetical examples of month-end imbalance trading, add a requirement for suppliers to submit invoices of positive imbalances to DEO, and add a requirement for DEO to pay submitted invoices within fifteen days of posting. DEO proposes to remove specific dates for the monthly reallocation period during which suppliers may engage in imbalance trading, because the dates change slightly from month to month. Suppliers will be informed of the dates for the monthly reallocation periods through DEO's electronic bulletin board. In addition, DEO proposes to require suppliers to submit invoices to DEO for the cash-out of positive imbalances rather than reflecting such cash-outs on DEO's next invoice to the suppliers. Doing so will enable DEO to more readily identify the amounts billed to suppliers that are subject to gross receipts tax because DEO's invoices to suppliers will no longer be reduced by the positive imbalance amounts. Because the suppliers will be required to bill DEO, DEO agrees to pay the cashout invoices within 15 days of posting the invoice to DEO's accounting system.

• DEO proposes to delete the requirement for suppliers to specify firm receipt points as part of the Service Agreement. Because suppliers may elect firm receipt delivery points through periodic open season postings as well as in connection with their Service Agreement under the General Terms and Conditions of Energy Choice Pooling Service, the form on which suppliers must identify such firm receipt points has been removed from the Service Agreement and will be administered as a separate agreement.

• DEO proposes to delete the option for a supplier to have DEO remarket assigned on-system storage capacity or for the supplier to use such capacity in other pooling services with DEO. The suppliers' options to elect a portion of its on-system storage capacity assignment to be remarketed by DEO or to be used for other pooling services received from DEO are not used by suppliers. Accordingly, these options are being removed from the tariff. Suppliers continue to have the option outside of the Service Agreement to request transfers among storage capacity held on DEO's system.

• DEO proposes to shorten the period when suppliers must demonstrate comparable capacity to November through March and to adjust the amount of certain released capacity as a supplier's customer demand changes. The comparable capacity period is being revised in accordance with the Stipulation and Recommendation approved in Case No. 07-1224-GA-EXM. In addition, suppliers have requested that DEO update capacity releases as their pool requirements change

• DEO proposes to delete the requirement for it to provide a list of end-use customer accounts served by a supplier's pool and to change the timing of when DEO will provide aggregate daily consumption volume projections. Because suppliers now receive customer enrollment files throughout the month, it is no longer necessary for DEO to post a list of end-use customers prior to the monthly nomination period. The proposed change in the timing of consumption-volume projections will improve DEO's ability to respond to changes in expected usage and operating conditions. Based on suppliers' feedback, projections will be provided by 8:30 a.m., prior to the opening of natural gas markets.

• DEO proposes to delete the alternate options for suppliers to estimate customer delivery volumes and to delete DEO's reservation of the right to use the current month's data to project consumption during operational-flow-order (OFO) periods. Weekly customer counts are now used to estimate projected consumption volumes. Accordingly, it no longer necessary to offer suppliers the option of using a two-month average in lieu of monthly customer data or for DEO to reserve the right to use the current month's customer data during OFO periods.

• DEO proposes to restate the daily trading imbalance fee as $95.60, "plus applicable gross receipts tax." The total charge of $100.00 will not change

• DEO proposes to delete the current provisions addressing electronic file transfers in their entirety. In its place, DEO proposes to add language requiring DEO to receive enrollments every business day, to process the enrollments overnight and provide results the next business day, and to provide more information concerning the enrollment process in the Enrollment/Billing File Specifications document. DEO proposes to inform suppliers of required electronic file layouts and associated details outside of the tariff to more readily accommodate changes to the electronic file details as information technology changes.

Case: 12-3088-GA-ATA