Phase II Cost of Service Hearing
Yukon Energy Corporation and the Yukon Electrical Company Limited filed a joint Phase II Application to the Yukon Utilities Board (YUB) in 2010.
In 2008/09, each utility had a separate revenue requirement hearing, which allowed the YUB to determine how much money each company needs to operate and what amount over-all is to be charged to customers for electricity.
The Phase II hearing addressed three things:
1. Cost of Service: this allowed the Utilities Board to decide how much of that total amount is properly allocated to each class of customer (i.e. residential, commercial, government, etc.). In other words, it allows the YUB to determine how the pie should be divided up in terms of which customers are responsible for what percentage of the overall electricity costs.
2. Rate Design: The YUB determined the rates to be paid by each class of customer. In this hearing, the YUB could not change the overall amounts paid by each class (i.e., any new rates have to charge the same amount overall to the residential class, the commercial class, etc.) but the rates could be redesigned within the class.
3. Terms and Conditions of Service: The Phase II hearing also dealt with proposed changes to the terms under which the utilities provide service to customers.
4. Yukon Electrical Company Limited also made application as part of this process to implement a new rate rider that would allow YECL to pass on charges or refunds to Yukon rate payers for power purchased from Yukon Energy.
The full application can be found below.
- Phase II Application - 2010 (9044 KB)