Gary A. Stern, Ph.D.
Managing Director, State Regulatory Operations
January 15, 2021
ADVICE 4292-E-A
(U 338-E)
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
ENERGY DIVISION
SUBJECT:
Supplement to Advice 4292-E, Southern California Edison
Company’s Modified Track 1 Work Plan Demonstrating
Compliance with Decision 20-07-004
Southern California Edison Company (SCE) hereby submits for filing this Supplement to
Advice 4292-E to make minor changes to its Track 1 Workplan submitted in Advice
4294-E on September 14, 2020. The revised Track 1 Workplan is attached hereto as
Appendix A.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this advice letter supplement is to make minor changes to SCE’s Track
1 Workplan submitted in the company’s September 14, 2020 Advice 4294-E. These
changes are made in accordance with General Order (GO) 96-B, General Rules 7.5.1,
which authorizes utilities to make additional changes to an advice letter through the
submittal of a supplemental advice letter.
This Supplemental advice letter will not change the original substance of Advice 4292-E
except to add references to Decision (D.) 20-11-019, which was issued after SCE’s
September 14, 2020 submission of Advice 4294-E, and to correct the reference of “100”
to “1,000” in Section 3.B.ix of SCE’s Track 1 Workplan relating to the number of poles
that must be displayed in SCE’s Data Portal within two years from the date of
D.20-11-019.
TIER DESIGNATION
Pursuant to GO 96-B, Energy Industry Rule 5.2, this advice letter is submitted with a
Tier 2 designation, which is the same Tier designation as the original advice letter,
Advice 4292-E.
P.O. Box 800
8631 Rush Street
Rosemead, California 91770
(626) 302-9645
Fax (626) 302-6396
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ADVICE 4292-E-A
(U 338-E)
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January 15, 2021
EFFECTIVE DATE
This supplemental advice letter will become effective on the same day as the original
advice letter, Advice 4292-E, which is October 14, 2020.
PROTESTS
SCE asks that the Commission, pursuant to GO 96-B, General Rules 7.5.1, maintain
the original protest and comment period designated in Advice 4292-E and not reopen
the protest period. The modifications included in this supplemental advice letter do not
make substantive changes that would affect the overall evaluation of the submittal.
NOTICE
In accordance with General Rule 4 of GO 96-B, SCE is serving copies of this advice
letter to the interested parties shown on the attached GO 96-B, I.17-06-027 and
R.17-06-028 service lists. Address change requests to the GO 96-B service list should
be directed by electronic mail to AdviceTariffManager@sce.com or at (626) 302-4039.
For changes to all other service lists, please contact the Commission’s Process Office
at (415) 703-2021 or by electronic mail at Process_Office@cpuc.ca.gov.
Further, in accordance with Public Utilities Code Section 491, notice to the public is
hereby given by submitting and keeping the advice letter at SCE’s corporate
headquarters. To view other SCE advice letters submitted with the Commission, log on
to SCE’s web site at https://www.sce.com/wps/portal/home/regulatory/advice-letters.
For questions, please contact June Bote at (714) 895-0585 or by electronic mail at
june.bote@sce.com.
Southern California Edison Company
/s/ Gary A. Stern, Ph.D.
Gary A. Stern, Ph.D.
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Enclosure
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ADVICE LETTER
SUMMARY
ENERGY UTILITY
MUST BE COMPLETED BY UTILITY (Attach additional pages as needed)
Company name/CPUC Utility No.: Southern California Edison Company (U 338-E)
Utility type:
ELC
GAS
PLC
HEAT
ELC = Electric
PLC = Pipeline
WATER
Contact Person: Darrah Morgan
Phone #: (626) 302-2086
E-mail: AdviceTariffManager@sce.com
E-mail Disposition Notice to: AdviceTariffManager@sce.com
EXPLANATION OF UTILITY TYPE
GAS = Gas
WATER = Water
HEAT = Heat
(Date Submitted / Received Stamp by CPUC)
Tier Designation:
Advice Letter (AL) #:
Subject of AL:
Keywords (choose from CPUC listing): Compliance
AL Type:
Monthly
Quarterly
Annual
One-Time
Other:
If AL submitted in compliance with a Commission order, indicate relevant Decision/Resolution #:
Does AL replace a withdrawn or rejected AL? If so, identify the prior AL:
Summarize differences between the AL and the prior withdrawn or rejected AL:
Confidential treatment requested?
Yes
No
If yes, specification of confidential information:
Confidential information will be made available to appropriate parties who execute a
nondisclosure agreement. Name and contact information to request nondisclosure agreement/
access to confidential information:
Resolution required?
Yes
No
Requested effective date:
No. of tariff sheets: -0-
Estimated system annual revenue effect (%):
Estimated system average rate effect (%):
When rates are affected by AL, include attachment in AL showing average rate effects on customer classes
(residential, small commercial, large C/I, agricultural, lighting).
Tariff schedules affected:
None
Service affected and changes proposed1:
Pending advice letters that revise the same tariff sheets: None
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Discuss in AL if more space is needed.
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Protests and all other correspondence regarding this AL are due no later than 20 days after the date
of this submittal, unless otherwise authorized by the Commission, and shall be sent to:
CPUC, Energy Division
Attention: Tariff Unit
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Email: EDTariffUnit@cpuc.ca.gov
Name: Gary A. Stern, Ph.D.
Title: Managing Director, State Regulatory Operations
Utility Name: Southern California Edison Company
Address: 8631 Rush Street
City: Rosemead
Zip: 91770
State: California
Telephone (xxx) xxx-xxxx: (626) 302-9645
Facsimile (xxx) xxx-xxxx: (626) 302-6396
Email: advicetariffmanager@sce.com
Name:
Title:
Utility Name: Southern California Edison Company
Address: 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 2030
City: San Francisco
State: California
Zip: 94102
Telephone (xxx) xxx-xxxx:
Facsimile (xxx) xxx-xxxx: (415) 929-5544
Email: karyn.gansecki@sce.com
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ENERGY Advice Letter Keywords
Affiliate
Direct Access
Preliminary Statement
Agreements
Disconnect Service
Procurement
Agriculture
ECAC / Energy Cost Adjustment
Qualifying Facility
Avoided Cost
EOR / Enhanced Oil Recovery
Rebates
Balancing Account
Energy Charge
Refunds
Baseline
Energy Efficiency
Reliability
Bilingual
Establish Service
Re-MAT/Bio-MAT
Billings
Expand Service Area
Revenue Allocation
Bioenergy
Forms
Rule 21
Brokerage Fees
Franchise Fee / User Tax
Rules
CARE
G.O. 131-D
Section 851
CPUC Reimbursement Fee
GRC / General Rate Case
Self Generation
Capacity
Hazardous Waste
Service Area Map
Cogeneration
Increase Rates
Service Outage
Compliance
Interruptible Service
Solar
Conditions of Service
Interutility Transportation
Standby Service
Connection
LIEE / Low-Income Energy Efficiency
Storage
Conservation
LIRA / Low-Income Ratepayer Assistance Street Lights
Consolidate Tariffs
Late Payment Charge
Surcharges
Contracts
Line Extensions
Tariffs
Core
Memorandum Account
Taxes
Credit
Metered Energy Efficiency
Text Changes
Curtailable Service
Metering
Transformer
Customer Charge
Customer Owned Generation
Mobile Home Parks
Name Change
Transition Cost
Transmission Lines
Decrease Rates
Non-Core
Transportation Electrification
Demand Charge
Non-firm Service Contracts
Transportation Rates
Demand Side Fund
Nuclear
Undergrounding
Demand Side Management
Oil Pipelines
Voltage Discount
Demand Side Response
PBR / Performance Based Ratemaking
Wind Power
Deposits
Portfolio
Withdrawal of Service
Depreciation
Power Lines
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Appendix A
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SCE - Track 1 Updated Workplan Report – January 15, 2021
Introduction and Summary
SCE submits this report to address Track 1 matters and pole data items identified in the D.20-07004 in I.17-06-027 issued by the Commission on July 21, 2020, to update SCE’s Track 1
workplan originally submitted on October 2, 2019, and to correct an error in D.20-07-004 as
prescribed in D.20-11-019.
1. Goals and objectives
The goal of this workplan is to provide qualifying jurisdictional entities (pole attachers) and
Commission staff electronic access to SCE’s refreshed data portal (SPIDAMin). SCE plans
to update the existing external facing pole information portal, ‘SPIDAMin®’ 1 to meet all
requirements set forth in D.20-07-004 and make the correction set forth in D.20-11-019.
2. Current Data
The following information is currently available to qualifying jurisdictional entities via
SCE’s SPIDAMin portal.
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Unique identifier of pole (pole number)
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Pole location information (GIS coordinates)
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Pole location information (address)
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Install date (or ‘start-up’ date)
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Pole length, class, and material
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Ownership information
Space / grade info (if available)
•
Name of other joint owners
percentage ownership of each joint owner(s) (if available)
Wood pole intrusive test data:
Date of last test
test result
The SPIDAMin portal also includes a geo-spatial map that allows the user to select a specific
pole and view the information listed above.
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SCE’s current SPIDAMin portal operating version is 6.3.0.0.
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Available pole information is researchable on a pole by pole basis
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Pole information can be viewed but not exported
3. Updates to SCE SPIDAMin Data Portal
A. In accordance with ordering paragraph 2 of D.20-07-004 SCE’s IT department will
work collaboratively with SPIDAWeb LLC technicians to develop new or improved
interface solutions to extract relevant information from SCE’s work management
system (SAP). SCE believes it will be able to make the following information
researchable and exportable via SPIDAMin.
i. Unique identifier of pole includes, at a minimum and by each service
territory, a pole number and address (either street or some other easily
identifiable address system) on a Geospatial map and should be included
in the database.
ii. Each of the five pole owners must have, at a minimum, a Geographic
Information System accessible to attachers, pole owners, and Commission
staff which includes the latitude/longitude coordinates, address (if
available), and service territory for locating the poles.
iii. High Fire Threat District tiers where the pole is located.
iv. The poles’ class, height, tree species, material circumference, and latest
loading information.
v. The year the pole was installed.
vi. Joint pole ownership information including the name of joint owners and
percentage of ownership of the pole.
vii. Intrusive test data including the date of last intrusive test, type of test,
results of the test, and any corrective action that has been or will be taken
in response to the test.
viii. The number and date of each attachment application, and pole loading
information, if any.
ix. Notice of pending pole replacement or reinforcement including the reason
for the replacement or reinforcement, the proposed scope of work,
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x. Information on buddy poles, including an indication of whether the pole
owner wishes to remove a buddy pole and the date of removal.
B. SCE will also comply with the Track 1 Work Plan modification indicated in
Ordering Paragraph 2 of D.20-07-004 and correction in Ordering Paragraph 1 of
D.20-11-019..
i. SCE will incorporate a data glossary into the data portal. The purpose of
the data glossary is to identify and document the data fields provided in
the data portal, including short description, data format, data field type,
and other metadata that will enable users to understand and use the data.
SCE’s portal shall include a Data Glossary and will make sure that
wherever feasible, the terms in the 5 pole owners glossaries mean the
same thing. No terms in any of the 5 pole owners Data Glossaries shall
contradict terms as defined in the Commission’s General Orders.
ii. The 5 pole owners will continue convene with the working group to reach
a consensus recommendation for the data elements that will use common
data definitions.
iii. The 5 pole owners have reached agreement on the definitions of the terms
in the data glossary.
iv. All 10 pole datapoints of pole data for jointly and solely owned poles shall
be provided through SCE’s Data Portals unless the datapoints are
specifically allowed to be ‘if available’ AND are not available. Data for
the ten data fields must be searchable and exportable as machine readable
data and through the web-based interactive portal.
v. SCE will continue to convene in a working group with the 5 pole owners
to develop a consensus recommendation for the method to be used for
sharing or synchronizing data for the ten key data elements related to
joint-owned poles with the other joint pole owner(s).
vi. All 10 pole datapoints will be searchable by two years from the issuance
of D.20-07-004 via the pole owners Data Portals, including by pole
number, latitude/longitude or Address location.
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vii. Capability for Data Portal pole locational and identifying information will
be implemented in some form by two years from the date of D.20-07-004
for poles that do not have locational and identifiable information.
viii. The Data Portal shall allow for selecting and viewing multiple poles on a
geospatial map using polygons and multi-pole selection capabilities.
ix. The Data Portal shall display the 10 pole datapoints for selected poles and
allow the information to be viewed and exportable as machine readable
data for at least 10 poles by one year and for at least 1,000 poles by two
years from the date of D.20-07-004.
x. Within 60 days of D.20-07-004, SCE will file and serve its updated Track
1 Workplan to demonstrate compliance with D.20-07-004 ordered
modifications by Tier 2 Advice Letter for review by the Energy Division.
xi. Initial electronic access to the pole data in the newly expanded and/or
created data portal shall be available within one year from the date of
D.20-07-004.
xii. The Commission’s staff shall be given unrestricted access to SCE’s data
portal via web portal within one year from the date of D.20-07-004, with
further options to be discussed in future Tracks of this Proceeding.
4. Conclusion
It is SCE’s intent to comply with all aspects of D.20-07-004 and D.20-11-019.
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