§2643 Gathering Information on Costs of Service

Summary

Requires each electric utility to regularly collect information, under rules the Commission makes, to figure the costs of providing electric service. Costs must be broken down, as much as possible, into customer, demand, and energy parts. Utilities must collect: costs to serve each customer class (including different use patterns like voltage and time of use); daily kilowatt demand curves showing daily and seasonal changes for all customers and for any class with its own rate; yearly capital, operating, and maintenance costs for transmission and distribution and for each kind of generating unit; and costs of purchased power, including daily and seasonal differences. The Commission must set the methods, procedures, and formats within 180 days after November 9, 1978, and may exempt a utility or group of utilities from some requirements after public notice and review. Each utility must file the gathered information with the Commission and with any state agency that sets its rates no later than two years after November 9, 1978, and then at least every two years after that. The utility must make the information public and must also share it when asking for a rate increase. The Commission can extend the first two-year deadline for good cause. Breaking these requirements is treated as a violation of the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act and is enforced under its section 12, with any reference to the Federal Energy Administrator read to mean the Commission.