Title
Draft Resolution - Approval of Tariff and Business Rules - Amendments - C Powell/A Stover
Other Info
Submitted By: C Powell/A Stover
Department: Compliance and Regulatory/Legal
Financial Impact and Cost/Benefit Considerations: Expenditure of Cooperative funds is not anticipated to be impacted; expenditures of staff time not anticipated to be impacted.
Discussion
Pursuant to Texas Utilities Code Section 41.055, the Board of Directors of Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc. (the "Cooperative") "has exclusive jurisdiction to: (1) set all terms of access, conditions, and rates applicable to services provided by the electric cooperative, . . . , including nondiscriminatory and comparable rates for distribution . . . (7) establish and enforce service quality standards, reliability standards, and consumer safeguards designed to protect retail electric customers . . . . ; and (12) make any other decisions affecting the electric cooperative's method of conducting business that are not inconsistent with the provisions of [Chapter 41 of the Texas Utilities Code.]"
The Cooperative has established a Tariff and Business Rules Management Procedure to manage the review of, and amendments to, PEC's Tariff and Business Rules. The Tariff and Business Rules consists of both the rate structures and rate schedules for Members governed generally by PEC's Rate Policy and associated rate plans, as well as the business rules and procedures for establishing service, disconnecting of service, and other operations of the Cooperative.
The Cooperative officially adopted the Tariff in 2009 and then consolidated the Tariff with the Business Rules in December 2016 (collectively, the "Tariff and Business Rules"). Numerous modifications and amendments have been adopted to various sections of the Tariff and Business Rules over the years. Most recently a restructure of the Tariff and Business Rules was approved in February 2020.
Since that period, certain business processes and pract...
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