TAKE NOTICE that
Maritime Electric Company, Limited ("Maritime Electric"
or "Company") has filed for the approval of the Island
Regulatory and Appeals Commission (the "Commission") the
Company's proposal regarding classification of certain
costs between Demand-related and Energy-related for the
propose of future cost allocation studies to be done by
the Company. The costs that the Company's Application
deals with are:
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Point Lepreau fixed costs;
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Purchases
of wind power; and
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Generating plant fuel costs.
BACKGROUND
The October 28, 2015
General Rate Application filed by Maritime Electric and
approved by Commission Order
UE16-04 dated February 29,
2016, directed the filing of a Point Lepreau Cost
Allocation Classification Study with the Commission by
April 30, 2017.
Maritime
Electric has filed this Application pursuant to
Commission Order
UE16-04. The application represents proposed
changes to the approach adopted for the Cost Allocation
Study to be filed with the Commission on or before June
30 2018, pursuant to Commission Order
UE16-04.
The previous
Cost Allocation Study was completed for 2014 and filed
as part of the 2015 General Rate Application. The
results were considered as part of the Commission Order
UE16-04.
A Cost
Allocation Study allocates costs to various services and
is necessary to assess if rates by customer class are
just and reasonable. The preamble to the
Electric Power Act
(R.S.P.E.I. 1988, Cap. E-4) states:
"Whereas the
rates, tolls and charges for electric power should be
reasonable, publicly justifiable and non-discriminatory;"
HOW TO SEE THE APPLICATION
A
complete copy of the application can be viewed by clicking
here. Any person wishing to obtain a hard copy of the filing can do so by writing to Maritime Electric at the address below.
HOW TO COMMENT AND ASK QUESTIONS
Any person
wishing to comment on the filing can do so by writing to the
Commission at the address below. In order to be considered,
comments must be received by Friday, August 11, 2017.
Persons wishing
to pose questions to Maritime Electric on the filing may do
so by sending their questions, in writing, to the Company on
or before Friday, July 14, 2017. Questions
posed to Maritime Electric must be answered by the
Company, in writing, on
or before Friday, July 28, 2017. Copies of
both written questions and written answers must be copied
to, or filed with, the Commission not later than
Friday, July 28, 2017.
All questions
posed and comments provided related to this application
will be made available on the Commission website at
www.irac.pe.ca.
A public hearing
will not be held unless the Commission determines a
hearing is necessary. If there is a public hearing, a
Notice of Hearing will be published. Otherwise, the
Commission will finalize its review in the form of a
written Order. All Orders issued in this matter will be
posted on the Commission’s website at
www.irac.pe.ca.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional information on the application can be obtained by contacting Maritime Electric at
902-629-3756. Written communications should be forwarded to:
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S.D. Loggie, CPA, CA
Vice-President, Finance
&
Chief Financial Officer
Maritime Electric Company, Limited
P.O. Box 1328
Charlottetown, PE C1A 7N2
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J.M.
Lanigan, CPA, CA
Regulatory Services
Island Regulatory & Appeals Commission
P.O. Box 577
Charlottetown, PE C1A 7L1
email:
jmlanigan@irac.pe.ca
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DATED
at Charlottetown, this
30th day of May, 2017.
Posted: 2017/06/02
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