RTO Insider Reporter Sean Reilly covers the June 1 press release of North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson urging “the utilities commission to scale back Duke’s proposed 15% rate increase, which would take effect over two years and raise about $1 billion.”
Reilly quotes the direct testimony of CEG expert Justin Brant in the article regarding Brant’s recommendations for customers with loads exceeding 20 megawatts:
“The projected interconnection of new customers over 20 MW presents a new and unique challenge,” the witness, Justin Brant of Current Energy Group, wrote in the May 29 filing. Accordingly, the five-member commission should require Duke to create a large load tariff and a new rate class for customers over 100 MW “taking service under that tariff,” Brant said.
Making a similar call was the commission’s public staff, which independently represents ratepayers.
“New tariff provisions are critical, and the commission must implement ratepayer protections applicable to [large load customers] without delay,” the staff wrote in a submission also dated May 29.