Company: SREA
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001032208-25-000065
Chunk: 211

Company: SEMPRA
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
Chunk 211
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UCT issued an order on rehearing in response to the motions for rehearing filed by Oncor and certain intervening parties in the proceeding. The order on rehearing made certain technical and typographical corrections to the final order but otherwise affirmed the material provisions of the final order and did not require modification of the rates that went into effect on May 1, 2023. In September 2023, Oncor filed an appeal in Travis County District Court seeking judicial review of certain rate base disallowances and related expense effects of those disallowances in the PUCT’s order on rehearing. In February 2024, the court dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. In March 2024, Oncor appealed the court’s dismissal with the Fifteenth Court of Appeals in Texas. On August 14, 2025, the court issued its opinion in favor of the PUCT and dismissed Oncor’s appeal. Oncor has elected not to pursue a further appeal.

Unified Tracker Mechanism. In June 2025, Texas House Bill 5247 was signed into law and became effective. The bill establishes what is known as the UTM, which creates an alternative method, available through 2035, for qualifying electric utilities to apply for interim rate adjustments once annually using a comprehensive regulatory filing for cost recovery of certain transmission and distribution capital expenditures.

A qualifying utility electing to use the UTM is permitted to defer all or a portion of the costs associated with its eligible transmission and distribution capital investments placed into service during the period covered by the UTM, including depreciation expense and carrying costs, as a regulatory asset. Texas House Bill 5247 provides that the PUCT must review a UTM filing within 120 days, and if a final order is not issued by the PUCT within 165 days after the UTM filing is submitted, the utility can place the requested rates into effect on a temporary basis and refund or credit against future customer bills any difference between such temporary rates and the final approved rates.

Oncor expects to make its first comprehensive UTM filing in the first half of 2026 with a view toward recovering the costs associated with eligible transmission and distribution investments that were placed into service after December 31, 2024 and that are not currently reflected in rates. Since the June 2025 effective date of the bill, Oncor has recognized revenues and corresponding regulatory assets for recoverable costs related to UTM-eligible transmission and distribution capital investments that were placed into service from January 1, 2025 through September