Tucson Electric Power Files Competitive Supply Program As Part of Rate Case

Tucson Electric Power has filed an electric rate case with the Arizona Corporation Commission

TEP's complete rate filing was not immediately available

However, TEP said that, pursuant to a previous ACC decision, TEP has proposed a new Market Pricing-Experimental (MP-EX) Pilot Program that, "could provide medium commercial, large commercial and industrial customers with new choices for managing energy costs by purchasing power from third-party generation service providers."

"Participants of the program would pay existing tariff-based rates for a portion of their electric service but also could have an option to replace a portion of their loads with market-priced block purchases competitively procured in the wholesale market by TEP," TEP said on the program

Further details of TEP's proposal were not immediately available

As first exclusively reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com, the ACC had directed that the utilities propose programs for large and medium C&I customers similar to APS's AG-X competitive supply buy-though program as part of their next rate cases

See our prior story for more background on the AG-X program