Company witness: will use agreed "commercial principles" and file large-load tariff by Jan. 31, 2026

Thomas L. Bailey, the company's area vice president for commercial and industrial solutions, told the Public Utilities Commission the utility will apply a set of "large load commercial principles" in negotiations with major customers and will file a large-load tariff no later than Jan. 31, 2026, under a tri-party framework discussed on the record.

"We will use utilize the principles that I outlined, in in my testimony," Bailey said when asked whether the company intended to follow the commercial principles described in his rebuttal. He added the company will use those principles while continuing to negotiate commercially with customers in an "interim period" before a formal tariff is in place.

What the company told commissioners

Bailey described three strands of the company's large-load strategy: (1) a two-stage RFP process intended to match generation to incremental need, (2) an updated base forecast that incorporates large-customer ramps, and (3) commercial principles and procedural recommendations the company intends to implement now and fold into a future tariff. On the timing question, Bailey…