Settlement Would Set Amounts For New DCRF Charge Applicable To Retail Providers At Oncor

Parties have filed an unopposed settlement to establish Oncor's first Distribution Cost Recovery Factor (DCRF), a charge applicable to retail electric providers taking delivery service

Under the settlement, Oncor would institute the following DCRFs, effective September 1, 2018:

Residential                $0.000183 per kWh
Secondary 
   ≤ 10 kW                 $0.000190 per kWh
   > 10 kW                 $0.037928 per kW
Primary 
   ≤ 10 kW                 $0.000092 per kWh
   > 10 kW - Distribution  $0.019495 per kW
   > 10 kW Substation      $0.005353 per kW
Transmission Service       $0.000486 per kW
Lighting Service           $0.000595 per kWh

For comparison, in Oncor's initial application, Oncor's originally proposed level for the DCRFs, effective September 1, 2018, had been:

Residential                $0.000229 per kWh
Secondary 
   ≤ 10 kW                 $0.000238 per kWh
   > 10 kW                 $0.047416 per kW
Primary 
   ≤ 10 kW                 $0.000115 per kWh
   > 10 kW - Distribution  $0.024372 per kW
   > 10 kW Substation      $0.006692 per kW
Transmission Service       $0.000608 per kW
Lighting Service           $0.000743 per kWh

All per kW amounts are per billing kW

The settlement provides that the exclusion of the six neighborhood reliability lithium-ion batteries from the prudence finding in Finding of Fact No. 36 of the final order in Docket No. 469572 is not affected by the approval of Oncor's DCRF rates in the DCRF proceeding. Consistent with that finding of fact, Oncor may seek and other parties may challenge, a prudence finding related to these batteries in a future proceeding.

Settling parties include Oncor, Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Office of Public Utility Counsel, the Alliance for Retail Markets, Texas Energy Association for Marketers, and various cities with original jurisdiction. Texas Industrial Energy Consumers does not oppose the stipulation

Docket 48231