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PUC narrows rule changes implementing SB 23291; adopts disclosures on prohibited costs and rate-trend visuals
Summary
Commission advisers recommended and commissioners agreed to require utilities to present disaggregated information about prohibited expenses in rate cases, to add a CPI comparison line to required 10‑year rate-trend visualizations, and to proceed with targeted rule language in a draft decision implementing Senate Bill 23291.
The Public Utilities Commission on May 14 advanced rule language to implement several provisions of Senate Bill 23291, directing staff to include a specific disclosure requirement for prohibited costs in base-rate proceedings and to include inflation comparisons in required rate-trend visuals.
Ron Davis of the commission’s advisory staff reviewed three rule issues flagged for follow-up. First, the commission considered how SB 23291’s prohibition on recovery of certain expense types should be reflected in rate-case proceedings. Davis presented draft language that would require utilities, in any rate case, to provide disaggregated data identifying the portion of…
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