Opinion ID: 1902608
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: order of the commission setting permanent rates

Text: IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED BY THE COMMISSION, That the following rate schedules, as filed by the Company on December 20, 1978, are hereby denied: Schedules FD, LPS, LPM, LPL, LPEM, LPEL, LFS, LAF, HLF, OFP, PG, XI, XOM, XTP, XWP and PLPL and the filed revisions of interruptible credits; IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That the Company file revisions of said Schedules FD, LPS, LPM, LPL, LPEM, LPEL, LFS, LAF, HLF, OFP, PG, XI, XOM, XTP, XWP and PLPL, incorporating uniform increases in each individual component of such rates so as to remedy the revenue deficiency found above; IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That such revised schedules shall provide for the required increases to be accomplished in three phases, the first step being the 9½% increase on annual test period revenues, in effect under the Order of the Commission on Emergency or Interim Rates dated March 6, 1979, with the amount of such increase being hereby made permanent; the second step being a 5% increase on the annualized revenues including the first step, with such increase to be effective for service rendered on and after July 19, 1979; and the third step to provide the balance of the revenue deficiency, being an 8% increase on the annualized revenues including the other two steps. The final step shall be effective for service rendered on and after January 1, 1980. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That, it being recognized that service rendered on and after specified dates cannot be determined by simultaneous meter readings, the Company shall compute bills on the basis that the metered usage has occurred evenly and ratably over the first affected billing period of each step; IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That, the Commission having hereby issued its order with respect to the proposed increased rates filed by the Company, this docket will now remain open pursuant to the Commission's order of May 21, 1979 herein and, upon the public notice issued by the Commission on June 27, 1979 and hearings to be set in connection therewith, the Commission will proceed to consider the rate design standards under Section 111 of the Federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA); changes or alterations in any of the revised rate schedules which may result from further orders in this PURPA aspect of the proceeding shall not increase or decrease the total revenue to which the Company is entitled under this order. DONE at Montgomery, Alabama, this 19th day of July, 1979. ALABAMA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (s) Juanita W. McDaniel Juanita W. McDaniel, President (s) Pete Mathews Pete Mathews, Commissioner Commissioner Jim Folsom, Jr., dissents and his dissenting opinion follows.