House Energy Committee advances substitute for bill to let gas utilities use alternative rate plans, adds valuation and confidentiality rules

The House Energy Committee at a mid-session meeting advanced a substitute version of House Bill 142 aimed at allowing natural gas companies to use alternative rate plans to serve very large customers and modernizing how utility property is valued for regulation.

Representative Davila, the bill sponsor, told the committee the dash-3 substitute keeps the bill’s core purposes but adds procedural and confidentiality refinements. “First, to allow natural gas companies to use alternative rate plans to serve very large load customers and second, to modernize…