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Jennifer;
Just a little more info with regard to the San Diego rate freeze legislation. SB 43 (the Alpert bill) was signed by the Governor April 6 and filed with the Secretary of State April 9. The language in the bill provides that the frozen rate would apply to the energy component of electric bills for electricity supplied to all customers by SDG&E not subject to the ceiling imposed by existing law (ie residential, small commercial and street lighting). Review of that language would imply the rate freeze would not apply to direct access customers. One caveat however. The CPUC must now implement the passed legislation through its regulations. While the intent of the legislation seems clear, the past record of the CPUC in implementing such legislative acts does not provide 100% assurance that logic will prevail. As a footnote to the above, AB 43 (Correa - passing the Assembly and Senate April 5) is a "companion clean-up" bill to SB 43. This bill is almost identical to SB 43 but reflects some limited technical corrections to SB 43. To our knowledge, as of yesterday, AB 43 had not been signed by the Governor. In addition, there have been repeated questions with regard to the applicability of the 3 cent surcharge to direct access customers. Unfortunately, the status of its applicability is still up in the air. Various parties have raised this issue directly with the CPUC and in their comments with respect to the rate design phase of its implementation and will be one of the issues to be addressed (though perhaps not answered) next week in the Commission's rate design hearing. If you could forward this to the rest of the CA team it would be appreciated.
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