Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 6 - Adjustment Clause › 3 AAC 52.504 - Filing requirements for electric utilities

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An electric
				  utility shall submit each COPA as a tariff filing in compliance with the
				  applicable provisions of 3 AAC 448.200 -
				  3 AAC 48.380. With its first COPA tariff filing after
				  January 11, 2004, an electric utility must submit a copy of each contract
				  required under
				  3 AAC 52.470(d) - (e), if that contract
				  is not already on file with the commission.
(b) An electric utility may implement a COPA
				  filing that does not include a new methodology or new cost element immediately
				  upon filing with the commission. The COPA filing is subject to subsequent
				  review, adjustment, and approval by the commission.
(c) If an electric utility seeks, outside of
				  a general rate case, to change its COPA methodology or include any new cost
				  element in its COPA, it must first obtain the commission's approval. In a
				  separate tariff filing, the utility must identify the proposed change in
				  methodology and any new cost element. An electric utility must justify the
				  proposed change in methodology and show that any new cost element meets the
				  criteria of
				  3 AAC 52.502(a).
(d) For a COPA filing under (b) of this
				  section, an electric utility is not required to give public notice under
				  AS
				  42.05.411. However, if an electric utility
				  seeks, outside of a general rate case, a change to its COPA methodology, a
				  change to a COPA cost element, or a change to its COPA that the commission
				  considers to be of significant interest to the public, the commission will
				  require notice to the public in a form that the commission considers sufficient
				  for the particular changes proposed.
(e) With each COPA tariff filing, an electric
				  utility must identify the percentage change in the average cost of power and
				  explain the reasons for the change.
(f) Within 45 days after the last day of any
				  month in which the absolute value of the cost-of-power balancing account
				  balance exceeds 10 percent of the electric utility's annual fuel and purchased
				  power costs, the electric utility shall submit a COPA tariff filing.
(g) With each COPA tariff filing, the
				  electric utility must submit the following information to support entries in
				  the cost-of-power balancing account for the historical period and projections
				  for the future period:
(1) a copy of each
				  invoice for costs recovered through the COPA;
(2) records of monthly fuel inventories, and
				  of changes to those inventories;
(3) a report of actual monthly kilowatt-hour
				  sales by customer class;
(4)
				  reports by unit of actual monthly
(A) gross
				  kilowatt-hour generation; and
(B)
				  station service;
(5) a
				  report showing the actual monthly cost per kilowatt-hour for each fuel and
				  purchased power source, and a brief explanation for any change in that
				  cost;
(6) a report calculating the
				  monthly margins for economy energy sales and the average price per
				  kilowatt-hour for economy energy purchases;
(7) the COPA calculation;
(8) documentation in support of projected
				  costs and sales for the future period;
(9) a calculation of monthly balances in the
				  cost-of-power balancing account;
(10) revised tariff sheets;
(11) other information that the commission
				  considers necessary to explain entries in the cost-of-power balancing account
				  or to explain the proposed COPA calculation.