REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Public Hearing: Action on Resolution Amending Rate Schedules for Electric Service for All Classes of Customers, Effective January 1, 2020 and establishing Rate Schedule PA-E
Report
BACKGROUND
The City of Santa Clara's Electric Utility, Silicon Valley Power (SVP), is proposing a rate increase of 3% for all classes of customers, effective January 1, 2020 (Bill Cycle 692). SVP's approved budget, approved by Council on June 25, 2019, for the 2019/20 fiscal year assumed a 3% rate increase effective January 2020.
Electric Utility staff first discussed the proposed increase with the City Council during the fiscal year 2020 budget process in June 2019. In addition, Electric Utility staff have reached out to the Energy Task Force (large customers), school districts, numerous individual customers, and media representatives. Staff also has provided information via social media: Nextdoor, Twitter and Facebook. The rate increase notice was also published in the September addition of Inside Santa Clara.
SVP is also proposing to amend Schedule SB-1(standby rate schedule), which currently applies to certain large customers with non-solar on-site self-generation. As a background, during its regularly meeting on December 19, 2017, Council adopted Resolution #17-8485 to amend Electric Rate Schedule SB-1 to improve the applicability of Schedule SB-1 to a wider variety of customer self-generation configurations. However, since its implementation, Electric Utility staff has found the billing process to be burdensome and difficult for customers to understand. Therefore, SVP is proposing an amended Schedule SB-1 to streamline the calculation of capacity reservation charges while achieving substantially the same amount of demand related revenue that SVP would have been received under the current Schedule SB-1.
SVP further proposes to establish new electric Rate Schedule PA-E for providing unmetered service to telecommunications equipment mounted on...
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