Opinion ID: 2284798
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Heating and Cooling Customers

Text: The Commission explicitly adopted the recommendation of WGL that the monthly charge to residential heating and cooling customers be reduced from $8 to $5, to soften the adverse impact that a fixed charge each month has on small volume customers. Order 6051, at 95 (quoting WGL Exh. J, at 19-20 (testimony of Edmund W. Smallwood)). Whereas the WGL proposal sought a reduction only for customers who consumed below 100 Ccf per year, however, the Commission remarked that WGL concedes that there is no real difference in the customer costs based on annual consumption [between customers who consume above and below 100 Ccf per year], Order 6051, at 96, and therefore applied the $5 charge uniformly to all residential heating and cooling customers.