1999-005-ORD APPROVE RATE SCHEDULES FOR TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY
ORDINANCE NO. --99-:: 005
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING RATE SCHEDULES FOR TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC
COMPANY; PROVIDING CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH SUCH RATE SCHEDULES
MAYBE CHANGED, MODIFIED, AMENDED OR WITHDRAWN; FINDING AND
DETERMINING THAT THE MEETING AT WIDCH THIS ORDINANCE IS PASSED IS
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS REQUIRED BY LAW; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE OF FEBRUARY 8,1999.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS:
Section 1. On January 15, 1999, Texas Utilities Electric Company (hereinafter referred
to an "TU Electric") filed with the Governing Body of this municipality a Statement of Intent and
Application to implement within the corporate limits of this municipality proposed new rate
schedules that provide additional rate options for its customers, which options are entirely
voluntary on the part of the customer, namely its proposed Rate GTU-M - General Service Time-
of-Use-Municipality, proposed Rate RTU1-M - Residential Time-of-Use Service-Municipality,
and proposed Rate GTUC-M - General Service Time-of-Use Voluntary Curtailable-Municipality
(said three proposed new rate schedules hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Time-of-Use
Rate Schedules").
Section 2. The Time-of-Use Rate Schedules are hereby approved, and TU Electric is
authorized to render service and to collect charges as specified in the Time-of-Use Rate Schedules
from its customers electing to receive electric service under said Time-of-Use Rate Schedules
within the corporate limits of this municipality until such time as said rate schedules may be
changed, modified, amended, or withdrawn with the approval of the Governing Body of this
municipality .
Section 3. The Time-of-Use Rate Schedules herein approved shall be effective from and
after the final passage and approval of this Ordinance.
Section 4. The filing of said Time-of-Use Rate Schedules shall constitute notice to the
consumers of electricity within this municipality of the availability and application of such Time-
of-Use Rate Schedules.
Section 5. TU Electric shall not seek any additional rate or surcharge mechanism to
recover any revenues lost on account of the application of these time-of-use rates, and there shall
be no imputed revenues on account of any reduction in TU Electric's revenues that may result
from the application of these time-of-use rates.
Section 6. The rate reductions approved by the Public Utility Commission of Texas in
Docket No. 18490 shall be applied to the time-of-use rates approved herein, such that Rider RRD
shall be applicable to Rate RTU1-M, Rider GSRD shall be applied to all customers taking
secondary service under either Rate GTU-M designated as Rate GTU-M-SEC or under Rate
GTUC-M designated at GTUC-M-SEC, and Rider RD shall be applied to all other customers on
Rate GTU-M or Rate GTUC-M.
Section 7. In its next general base rate case in which the time-of-use rates herein
approved are at issue, TU Electric will either (a) include all customers taking service under Rate
GTUC or GTUC-M during the test year involved in such base rate case as a separate rate class
in its cost allocation study, or (b) include in its cost allocation study the load and revenue data
applicable to each GTUC or GTUC-M customer taking service under Rate GTUC or GTUC-M
during the test year involved in such base rate case with the load and revenue data of the rate class
applicable to such GTUC or GTUC-M customer immediately prior to such customer's taking
service under Rate GTUC or GTUC-M. In the event, however, that industry restructuring is
mandated by legislative changes prior to the time that TU Electric has another general base rate
case and such legislation authorizes the recovery by TU Electric of any stranded costs from its
various customer classes in accordance with its last approved cost of service study, the customers
then receiving service under the time-of-use rates will be included in the customer classes reflected
in TU Electric's most recent cost of service study as follows:
a. Customers on Rate RTUI-M shall be included in Rate Class RTU;
b. Customers on Rate GTU-M shall be included in Rate Class HV, GP, or GS,
depending upon the voltage level of the service, such that customers on Rate GTU-
M receiving service at high voltages shall be included in Rate Class HV, customers
receiving service at primary distribution voltages shall be included in Rate Class
GP, and customers receiving service at secondary distribution voltages shall be
included in Rate Class GS; and,
c. Customers on Rate GTUC-M shall be included in Rate Class NI (Noticed
Interruptible) depending upon the voltage level of the service, such that customers
on Rate GTUC-M receiving service at high voltages shall be included in Rate Class
NI (High Voltage), customers on Rate GTUC-M receiving service at primary
distribution voltages shall be included in Rate NI (Primary), and Customers on Rate
GTUC-M receiving service at secondary distribution voltages shall be included in
Rate NI (Secondary).
Section 8. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be construed now or hereafter as
limiting or modifying in any manner the right and power of the Governing Body of this
municipality under the law to regulate the rates, operations, and services of TU Electric.
Section 9. It is hereby officially found and determined that the meeting at which this
Ordinance is passed is open to the public and as required by law and that public notice of the time,
place, and purpose of said meeting was given as required.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Paris,
Paris, Texas, on this the 8th day of February, 1999.
ATTEST:
Scott P. Foster, City Attorney