Company: PCG-PB
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001004980-25-000010
Chunk: 104

Company: PG&E Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 104
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 base”).  The Utility’s revenue requirements consist primarily of a base amount set to enable the Utility to recover its reasonable operating expenses (e.g., maintenance, administration, and general expenses) and capital costs (e.g., depreciation, and financing expenses).

The Utility’s costs of equity and long-term debt are generally approved in the CPUC’s cost of capital proceedings.

As a result, the Utility’s CPUC-jurisdictional revenue requirement is the sum of the following:

•expenses;

•depreciation;

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•taxes; and

•the product of the Utility’s rate of return (i.e., the cost of capital for long-term debt and equity) and its rate base.

In addition to the Utility’s revenue requirement, the CPUC authorizes the Utility to collect revenues to recover costs that the Utility is allowed to “pass through” to customers, including its costs to procure electricity and natural gas for customers and to administer public purpose and customer programs.

FERC revenue requirements are set through a FERC-approved formula rate.  The Utility’s rate of return on electric transmission assets is determined in the FERC TO proceedings.

Customer rates are determined by dividing the revenues that the Utility is authorized to collect from customers by the amount of power that the Utility is forecasted to sell.  Increases in load spread the Utility’s revenue requirement over a larger usage base, which reduces customer rates, but also increases fuel costs, which are passed through to customers.

Other than certain gas transmission and storage revenues, the Utility’s base revenues are “decoupled” from its sales volume through regulatory balancing accounts, or revenue adjustment mechanisms, that are designed to allow the Utility to collect its authorized base revenue requirements regardless of sales volume.  As a result, the Utility’s base revenues are not impacted by fluctuations in sales resulting from, for example, weather or economic conditions.  The Utility’s earnings primarily depend on its ability to manage its base operating and capital costs within its authorized base revenue requirements.

Due to the seasonal nature of the Utility’s business and rate design, customer electric bills are generally higher during summer months (May to October) because of higher demand, driven by air conditioning loads.  Customer bills related to gas service are generally higher during winter months (November to March) because of higher demand due to heating.

From time to time, the CPUC may use incentive ratemaking mechanisms that provide the Utility an opportunity to earn additional revenues.  For example, the Utility has earned incentives for the successful implementation of energy efficiency programs.

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