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This excerpt taken from the PCG 10-K filed Feb 18, 2005. General Rate Cases The Utility's primary revenue requirement proceeding is the general rate case, or GRC, filed with the CPUC. In the GRC, the CPUC authorizes the Utility to collect from customers an amount known as base revenues to recover base business and operational costs related to the Utility's electricity and natural gas distribution and electricity generation operations. The GRC typically sets annual revenue requirement levels for a three-year rate period. The CPUC authorizes these revenue requirements in GRC proceedings based on a forecast of costs for the first, or test, year. After authorizing the revenue requirements, the CPUC allocates revenue requirements among customer classes (mainly residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural) and establishes specific rate levels. Typical intervenors in the Utility's GRC include the ORA and TURN. The next GRC will cover the period of 2007-2009. 27 |
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