Opinion ID: 1705462
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: FERC Proceedings

Text: On March 15, 1995, the LPSC filed a complaint with the FERC requesting that calculations made by Entergy Operating Companies for interruptible load [4] be removed from the Entergy System Agreement MSS-1 rate schedule. LPSC argued that including the interruptible load calculation in the schedule was unjust and unreasonable since Entergy Corporation did not consider interruptible load when deciding whether to add capacity to the system. After protracted litigation in the FERC and federal court, the FERC issued Opinion No. 468 on March 8, 2004 which held, in pertinent part: We [FERC] will ... direct the Operating Companies to remove interruptible load when calculating peak load responsibility ratios. We will also direct the Operating Companies to remove interruptible load from Schedule MSS-5 (Distribution of Revenue from Sales Made for the Joint Account of All Companies) and from joint account purchases. Louisiana Public Service Comm'n, et al v. Entergy Corp, et al, Opinion No. 468, 106 FERC P 61228 (March 8, 2004). FERC ordered that the change enunciated in its March 8, 2004 Opinion would be effective from the first day of the first month following the date of this order (i.e. April 1, 2004). Louisiana Public Service Comm'n, et al v. Entergy Corporation, et al, Opinion No. 468, 106 FERC P 61228 (March 8, 2004). Entergy Services, Inc. [5] filed a request for rehearing and clarification to the FERC following issuance of FERC Opinion No. 468, together with a motion to defer its obligation to submit the compliance filing required by the opinion until the FERC had ruled on Entergy's application for rehearing. In its motion, Entergy Services, Inc. stated, on behalf of the Entergy Operating Companies, that it was not seeking a stay of the April 1, 2004 effective date of Opinion No. 468 [Entergy's emphasis]. Entergy Louisiana also claimed that, deferral of the compliance filing will not harm anyone because Entergy is not challenging the April 1, 2004 effective date for the changes imposed in Opinion No. 468. [6] On April 18, 2005, the FERC issued FERC Opinion No. 468-A, denying rehearing relative to FERC Opinion No. 468. The FERC stated that Entergy must adjust the system peaks and its rates beginning April 1, 2004, as required by Opinion No. 468. See, Lousiana Public Service Comm'n, et al. v. Entergy Corporation, et al., Opinion No. 468-A, 111 FERC P 61080 (April 18, 2005). [7]