Sharyland Files to Implement TCRF for IDR Customers, Lower Rates for Non-IDR Customers

Sharyland Utilities, LP has filed to implement Transmission Cost Recovery Factor rates, applicable to retail electric providers, for customers with interval data recorder (IDR) meters.

In its unbundling case, Sharyland did not propose separate IDR and non-IDR rates because during the 2012 test year, Sharyland did not have any IDR meters installed for billing purposes

Under the proposed new procedure, the TCRF rate for Transmission Service would be set equal to the current wholesale transmission access charge since all customers in that class would have IDR meters and no distribution system losses are incurred in serving them.

The proposed IDR TCDR charges are:

Secondary Service Greater than 10 kW - IDR: $4.012775 per 4CP kW

Primary Service - IDR: $3.841503 per 4CP kW

Transmission Service: $3.69015 per 4CP kW

Under the current TCRF Rider, all wholesale transmission costs are allocated to the residential, small secondary (< 10 kW), large secondary (> 10 kW), primary, and lighting customer classes based on the 4CP demand allocation factor approved in the unbundling case. The TCRF charges are then calculated for each of these five classes based on their allocated transmission costs.

Going forward, the allocated transmission costs for the Secondary Service >10 kW and Primary Service classes would be credited with any revenues received under the new TCRF charges for IDR metered customers. That reduced allocated transmission cost amount would then be used to calculate the TCRF charges for non-IDR metered customers, resulting in lower TCRF charges for those customers.

In Sharyland's application, the TCRF charges for non-IDR metered customers are initially set equal to the recently filed TCRF charges in Docket No. 42577 (the September 1 TCRF update), since there currently are not any revenues associated with the IDR TCRF rates. Once revenues are received from the new IDR TCRF charges, then those revenues would be used to reduce the non-IDR TCRF charges in the next biannual TCRF filing, Sharyland said.

See More in Sharyland's Filing, Docket 42699