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Utah PSC hearing probes Enbridge cost-allocation proposals that could realign millions among classes
Summary
Witnesses for large customers and intervenors urged the Public Service Commission to change Enbridge Gas Utah's allocation and rate-design methods, recommending a winter-throughput or excess design-day allocator and other TSL (transport) rate changes; commissioners pressed witnesses on magnitude and gradualism.
The Public Service Commission of Utah heard competing technical testimony on how Enbridge Gas Utah assigns distribution costs and sets large-customer (TSL/GS) rates in Docket 25-057-06. Intervenors proposed replacing parts of the company's allocator with measures tied to winter or excess peak demand; commissioners asked how those changes would affect customer classes.
Dr. Lance Darshana Kaufman, testifying for Nucor Steel Utah, recommended replacing "the annual throughput component of the F-2-30 allocator with winter throughput," arguing Enbridge sizes mains and stations to meet a design day defined as an average winter temperature of minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit and that winter throughput better aligns costs with design-day demand. Kaufman also proposed a low-pressure surcharge for a small subset of TSL customers, changes to TSL block volumetric rates to…
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