Erik Jacobson
Director
Regulatory Relations
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
77 Beale St., Mail Code B13U
P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, CA 94177
Fax: 415-973-3582
February 22, 2021
Advice 6097-E
(Pacific Gas and Electric Company ID U 39 E)
Public Utilities Commission of the State of California
Subject:
Modifications to Electric Rule 18 Pursuant to Decision 21-01-018
Purpose
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”) hereby submits this Tier 2 Advice Letter
(“AL”) proposing modifications to its Electric Rule 18 - Supply to Separate Premises and
Submetering of Electric Energy – to support qualifying microgrid projects, in compliance
with the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC” or “Commission”) Decision (“D.”)
21-01-018 (“Decision”) Ordering Paragraph (“OP”) 2.
Background
The Commission initiated Rulemaking (“R.”) 19-09-009 to develop a policy framework
surrounding the commercialization of microgrids and related resiliency strategies, and to
implement Senate Bill (SB) 1339 (Stern, 2018).
On July 3, 2020, the assigned Commissioner issued an amended Scoping Memo and
Ruling for Track 2. This amended Scoping Memo and Ruling focused on the continued
implementation of SB 1339. SB 1339 requires the Commission to implement microgrid
standards, protocols, guidelines, methods, rates, and tariffs as well as reduce barriers to
microgrid deployment statewide.
On January 21, 2021, the Commission adopted D.21-01-018, which approves a Staff
proposal to allow public agency microgrids to use energy received from the grid to serve
critical customers on adjacent parcels in the event of a grid outage.
This AL demonstrates PG&E’s compliance with OP 2 of D. 21-01-018, which requires:
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison Company,
and San Diego Gas & Electric Company shall each file a Tier 2 advice letter,
within 30 days upon the issuance of this decision, implementing Rule 18
and Rule 19 revisions pursuant to Section 3.2.3 of this decision.
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In this Tier 2 advice letter, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern
California Edison Company, and San Diego Gas & Electric Company shall
each explicitly state that microgrids owned by public agencies or by a third
party that primarily serves facilities owned or operated by, or on behalf of,
public agencies are permitted to supply electricity to critical facilities owned
or operated by or on behalf of a public agency on an adjacent premises.
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In this Tier 2 advice letter, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern
California Edison Company, and San Diego Gas & Electric Company shall
each also form a pathway for the Rule 18 or Rule 19 microgrid projects to
become live, and shall adhere to the subscription limit of 10 microgrid
projects for each service territory pursuant to Section 3.2.3 of this decision,
including review and approval by Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
Southern California Edison Company, and San Diego Gas & Electric
Company of the facilities connected to the microgrid to ensure the microgrid
system performs as required under normal and abnormal grid conditions.
Discussion
In the advice letter, PG&E only proposes modifications to its Electric Rule 18 as described
below. PG&E does not seek to modify Rule 21 - Generating Facility Interconnections but will make minor application processing modifications to accommodate the
interconnection of qualifying microgrid projects, as outlined in Section IV below.
Tariff Revisions
In compliance with OP2 of D.21-01-018, PG&E submits the following modifications to its
Electric Rule 18 Section B.1
B. OTHER USES OR PREMISES
A customer shall not furnish or use electricity received from PG&E upon premises, or
for purposes, other than those specified in the customer’s application for service
except:
Where, pursuant to D.21-01-018, microgrids owned by public agencies1 or third-party
that primarily serves a facility operated by, or on behalf of, a public agency are
permitted to supply electricity to a critical facility2 owned or operated by, or on behalf
of, a public agency on an adjacent Premises to conduct emergency and/or critical
operations during a grid outage. The public agency, third-party owner of the microgrid,
or the customer at the adjoining Premises is required to install a device, subject to
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Underlined text denotes new language. Strikethrough text denotes deleted or relocated
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PG&E’s review and approval, that prohibits parallel operations of the service line
between the Premises during normal operation. This exception is subject to the
limitation of Public Utilities Code Section 218. Additionally, this exception is available
until PG&E has reached the cap adopted in D.21-01-018 of ten projects that have
completed the interconnection process and received permission to operate in PG&E’s
service territory.
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Public agencies are state, county, local, and tribal agencies.
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For purposes of this exception, a facility is considered a critical facility if it is included
in PG&E’s existing critical facilities list. The critical facilities list is developed and
managed by PG&E in partnership with local governments, and subject to the process
adopted by the CPUC in D.19-05-042 and subsequent decisions.
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Below is an overview of PG&E’s plan for qualifying microgrid projects to implement the
modifications to Rule 18, Section B:
1. Qualified customers will apply through PG&E’s existing interconnection process
under Rule 21 or net energy metering (“NEM”).
2. Customer generation and microgrid operation will be studied and tested based on
existing Rule 21 or NEM requirements.
3. PG&E will track the number of customers who qualified under the Rule 18, Section
B, exception and received permission to operate.
4. PG&E will submit an advice letter with a recommendation to continue or
discontinue the Rule 18 exception once the fifth microgrid project in PG&E’s
service territory has received permission to operate.2
No cost information is required for this advice letter. This advice letter will not increase
any rate or charge, cause the withdrawal of service, or conflict with any other schedule or
rule.
Safety Considerations
PG&E anticipates that qualifying microgrid applications for this Rule 18 exception will
involve use of existing systems to complete “over-the-fence”3 connections (to qualified
critical loads), or installation of new microgrid systems for this arrangement. In either
event, PG&E will process applications per its existing Rule 21 requirements. PG&E will
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The “over-the-fence” rule is codified in Sections 218 and 2868 of the California Public Utilities
Code and allows generators meeting certain requirements to serve load on adjacent parcels
without becoming subject to regulation as a public utility.
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modify its Rule 21 technical review process to include review, and field test, of the
applicant’s method of isolating the generating system and critical load from the grid to
ensure there is no backfeed onto the grid.
The applicant will need to include in the application sufficient documentation to show that
there is relaying installed to isolate the system and critical load from their respective
connections to the grid thereby assuring that the system will not impose safety issues
while the grid is down. Note that this Rule 21 review will not assure the safe and reliable
operation of the customer’s microgrid when it is disconnected from PG&E’s grid during
outages.
PG&E also has information previously supplied regarding the safe and reliable operation
of back-up generators applicable to the critical load service account. PG&E expects that
further requirements and communications with the critical load service account might be
necessary.
Protests
***Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the shelter at home orders, PG&E is currently
unable to receive protests or comments to this advice letter via U.S. mail or fax.
Please submit protests or comments to this advice letter to
EDTariffUnit@cpuc.ca.gov andPGETariffs@pge.com***
Anyone wishing to protest this submittal may do so by letter sent via U.S. mail, facsimile,
or E-mail, no later than March 15, 2021, which is 214 days after the date of this submittal.
Protests must be submitted to:
CPUC Energy Division
ED Tariff Unit
505 Van Ness Avenue, 4th Floor
San Francisco, California 94102
Facsimile: (415) 703-2200
E-mail: EDTariffUnit@cpuc.ca.gov
Copies of protests also should be mailed to the attention of the Director, Energy Division,
Room 4004, at the address shown above.
The protest shall also be sent to PG&E either via E-mail or U.S. mail (and by facsimile, if
possible) at the address shown below on the same date it is mailed or delivered to the
Commission:
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The 20-day protest period concludes on a weekend; therefore, PG&E is moving this date to the
following business day.
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February 22, 2021
Erik Jacobson
Director, Regulatory Relations
c/o Megan Lawson
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
77 Beale Street, Mail Code B13U
P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, California 94177
Facsimile: (415) 973-3582
E-mail: PGETariffs@pge.com
Any person (including individuals, groups, or organizations) may protest or respond to an
advice letter (General Order 96-B, Section 7.4). The protest shall contain the following
information: specification of the advice letter protested; grounds for the protest; supporting
factual information or legal argument; name, telephone number, postal address, and
(where appropriate) e-mail address of the protestant; and statement that the protest was
sent to the utility no later than the day on which the protest was submitted to the reviewing
Industry Division (General Order 96-B, Section 3.11).
Effective Date
PG&E requests that this Tier 2 advice submittal become effective on regular notice,
March 24, 2021, which is 30 calendar days after the date of submittal.
Notice
In accordance with General Order 96-B, Section IV, a copy of this Advice Letter is being
sent electronically and via U.S. mail to parties shown on the attached list and the parties
on the service lists R.19-09-009. Address changes to the General Order 96-B service list
should be directed to PG&E at email address PGETariffs@pge.com. For changes to any
other service list, please contact the Commission’s Process Office at (415) 703-2021 or
at Process_Office@cpuc.ca.gov. Send all electronic approvals to PGETariffs@pge.com.
Advice
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/S/
Erik Jacobson
Director, Regulatory Relations
cc:
Service Lists R.19-09-009
Attachments
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ADVICE LETTER
SUMMARY
ENERGY UTILITY
MUST BE COMPLETED BY UTILITY (Attach additional pages as needed)
Company name/CPUC Utility No.: Pacific Gas and Electric Company (ID U 39 G)
Utility type:
ELC
GAS
PLC
HEAT
ELC = Electric
PLC = Pipeline
WATER
Contact Person: Stuart Rubio
Phone #: (415) 973-4587
E-mail: PGETariffs@pge.com
E-mail Disposition Notice to: SHR8@pge.com
EXPLANATION OF UTILITY TYPE
GAS = Gas
WATER = Water
HEAT = Heat
(Date Submitted / Received Stamp by CPUC)
Tier Designation: 2
Advice Letter (AL) #: 6097-E
Subject of AL: Modifications to Electric Rule 18 Pursuant to Decision 21-01-018
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 #:
D.21-01-018
Does AL replace a withdrawn or rejected AL? If so, identify the prior AL: No
Summarize differences between the AL and the prior withdrawn or rejected AL: N/A
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: 3/24/21
No. of tariff sheets: 8
Estimated system annual revenue effect (%): N/A
Estimated system average rate effect (%): N/A
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:
See Attachment 1
Service affected and changes proposed1: N/A
Pending advice letters that revise the same tariff sheets: N/A
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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: Erik Jacobson, c/o Megan Lawson
Title: Director, Regulatory Relations
Utility Name: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Address: 77 Beale Street, Mail Code B13U
City: San Francisco, CA 94177
Zip: 94177
State: California
Telephone (xxx) xxx-xxxx: (415)973-2093
Facsimile (xxx) xxx-xxxx: (415)973-3582
Email: PGETariffs@pge.com
Name:
Title:
Utility Name:
Address:
City:
State: District of Columbia
Telephone (xxx) xxx-xxxx:
Facsimile (xxx) xxx-xxxx:
Email:
Zip:
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A.
SEPARATE METERING
Separate premises, even though owned by the same customer, will not be supplied
through the same meter, except as may be specifically provided for in the applicable
rate schedule.
B.
OTHER USES OR PREMISES
A customer shall not furnish or use electricity received from PG&E upon premises, or
for purposes, other than those specified in the customer’s application for service
except:
1.
For PG&E’s Operating Convenience as defined in PG&E’s Rule 1, or
2.
Where, pursuant to D.21-01-018, microgrids owned by public agencies1 or
third-party that primarily serves a facility operated by, or on behalf of, a public
agency are permitted to supply electricity to a critical facility2 owned or
operated by, or on behalf of, a public agency on an adjacent Premises to
conduct emergency and/or critical operations during a grid outage. The public
agency, third-party owner of the microgrid, or the customer at the adjoining
Premises is required to install a device, subject to PG&E’s review and
approval, that prohibits parallel operations of the service line between the
Premises during normal operation. This exception is subject to the limitation
of Public Utilities Code Section 218. Additionally, this exception is available
until PG&E has reached the cap adopted in D.21-01-018 of ten projects that
completed the interconnection process and received permission to operate in
PG&E’s service territory.
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Public agencies for purposes of this exception are defined as state, county, local,
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For purposes of this exception, a facility is considered a critical facility if it is included
in PG&E’s existing critical facilities list. The critical facilities list is developed and
managed by PG&E in partnership with local government, and subject to the process
adopted by the CPUC in D.19-05-042 and subsequent decisions.
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C. FURNISHING AND METERING OF ELECTRICITY
1.
RESIDENTIAL SERVICE
PG&E will furnish and meter electricity to each individual residential dwelling unit,
except:
a.
Where electricity is furnished under a rate schedule that specifically provides
for resale service; or
b.
Where a customer, or his predecessors in interest on the same premises,
was a customer on June 13, 1978, receiving electricity through a single
meter to an apartment house, mobile home park, or other multifamily
accommodation, and the cost of electricity is absorbed in the rental for the
individual dwelling unit, there is no separate identifiable charge by such
customer to the tenants for electricity, and the rent does not vary with electric
consumption; or
c.
Where a customer or his predecessors in interest on the same premises was
a customer on December 14, 1981, and submeters and furnishes electricity
to residential tenants at the same rates and charges that would be applicable
if the user were purchasing such electricity directly from PG&E; or
d.
Where a mobile home park or manufactured housing community developer,
owner or operator who installs, owns and operates the electric distribution
system within the park, submeters and furnishes electricity to residential
tenants in each occupancy, charges the same rates that would be applicable
if the user were purchasing such electricity directly from PG&E, unless
construction of a new mobilehome park, or manufactured housing
community commenced after January 1, 1997.
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C. FURNISHING AND METERING OF ELECTRICITY (Cont'd.)
1.
RESIDENTIAL SERVICE (Cont’d.)
e.
2.
Nothing in this section shall prevent PG&E from furnishing separatelymetered service to electric equipment used in common by residential tenants
or owners.
NONRESIDENTIAL SERVICE
PG&E will furnish and meter electricity to each individual nonresidential premises
or space, except:
a.
Where electricity is furnished under a rate schedule that specifically provides
for resale service; or
b.
Where a customer is receiving electricity through a single meter and the cost
of electricity is absorbed in the rental for the individual premises or spaces,
there is no separate identifiable charge by such customer to the tenants for
electricity, and the rent does not vary with electric consumption; or where all
of the following conditions are met:
1)
Service is supplied to a high rise building* which is owned or managed
by a single entity on a single premises; and
2)
Where a master-meter customer installs, owns, and maintains electric
submeters on its existing building’s distribution system for cost allocation
of dynamic pricing and/or conservation incentive purposes the cost of
electricity allocated to the commercial building tenants will be billed at
the same rate as the master meter billed by PG&E under the CPUC
approved rate schedule servicing the master meter.
c.
Where, in the sole opinion of PG&E, it is impractical for PG&E to meter
individually each premises or space. In such a case, PG&E will meter those
premises or spaces that it is practical to meter, if any.
d.
Where the Commission has authorized PG&E to supply electric service
through a single meter and to furnish service to nonresidential tenants on the
same basis as in 1.c. above.
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C. FURNISHING AND METERING OF ELECTRICITY (Cont'd.)
3.
MARINAS AND SMALL CRAFT HARBORS
Notwithstanding any other provision of this rule, PG&E will
furnish electrical service to the master-meter customer at a
privately or publicly owned marina or small craft harbor. The master-meter
customer may submeter individual slips or berths at the marina or harbor but may
not submeter any land-based facility or tenant.
If the master-meter customer submeters and furnishes electricity to individual
slips or berths, the rates and charges to the user must not exceed those that
would apply if the user were purchasing such electricity directly from PG&E.
4. COLD-IRONING LOAD
Cold-ironing load is defined as the use of shore-supplied electricity for the lights,
heating, cooling, machinery, and other needs of an ocean-going vessel while at
berth or otherwise electrically connected, as replacement for the vessel’s
auxiliary internal electric generation.
a. A master-metered customer may submeter a ship’s cold-ironing load aboard
an ocean-going vessel at the Port of San Francisco or the Port of Oakland
but may not submeter any other load or land-based facility.
b. If the master-metered customer submeters cold-ironing load to an oceangoing vessel, the rates and charges to the sub-metered user must not exceed
those rates and charges the master-metered customer is billed by PG&E for
such services.
5.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV) PARKS
PG&E will provide electric service to all spaces in an RV park through one meter
unless the condition under c. below applies. PG&E will not provide individual
metering to each RV space.
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5.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV) PARKS (Cont'd.)
Under no circumstances shall an RV park owner/operator install submeters and
bill the tenants for submetered energy use unless condition a., b., or c. below
applies and the provisions of Section D. below are met:
a.
Where the RV park owner/operator installed a submetering system prior to
May 15, 1962.
b.
Where the RV park owner/operator rents all of the RV spaces on a prepaid
monthly basis to RV units used as permanent residences and qualifies for
service under Schedule ESR.
c.
Where a master-metered RV park owner/operator rents RV spaces on a
prepaid monthly basis to permanent-residence RV units and on a
daily/weekly basis to transient RV units and arranges the electric distribution
system in accordance with PG&E's applicable tariffs so that all electricity to
the permanent-residence RV spaces is supplied through a separate PG&E
meter. In this situation, only the separately metered portion of the RV park
where all of the spaces are rented on a prepaid monthly basis to permanentresidence RV units can be submetered and would qualify for service under
Schedule ESR.
Where the master-metered RV park owner/operator does not submeter the
electric service to the RV spaces, such energy use shall be absorbed in the
tenant's rental charge which cannot vary month to month.
Where the master-metered RV park owner/operator installed submeters prior to
May 15, 1962 (see condition a. above), the owner/operator may bill the RV park
tenants for such energy use, provided the billings are calculated using the same
rate schedules PG&E uses for billing its customers.
Where the master-metered RV park owner/operator submeters the electric
service to the permanent-residence RV park spaces under Schedule ESR (see
conditions b. and c. above), the owner/operator will bill the prepaid monthly
tenants for such energy use using the same rate schedules PG&E uses for billing
its residential customers.
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C.
FURNISHING AND METERING OF ELECTRICITY (Cont'd.)
6. ELECTRIC VEHICLES
As provided by Public Utilities Code Section 216(i), a customer who owns,
controls, operates or manages a facility that supplies electricity to the public only
for use to charge light duty plug-in electric vehicles is not a public utility and
therefore may resell electricity without regard to this Rule. As provided by
California Public Utilities Commission Decision No. 20-09-025, a customer who
owns, controls, operates or manages a facility that supplies electricity to the
public only for use to charge medium duty, heavy duty, or off-road plug-in electric
vehicles or off-road electrical equipment is not a public utility and therefore may
resell electricity without regard to this Rule. Such resale of electricity for electric
vehicle charging does not affect the Commission’s authority under Public Utilities
Code Sections 454, 740.2, or any other applicable statute.
D.
TESTING OF SUBMETERS
As a condition of service for submetering, where electric energy is furnished in
accordance with Paragraphs C.1., C.2., C.3, and C.4. above, customers using
submeters as a basis for charges for electricity shall submit to PG&E certification by a
meter testing laboratory, satisfactory to PG&E, as to the accuracy of the submeters
upon initial installation of such submeters, or for existing submeters upon request of
PG&E. As a further condition of service for submetering, the customer shall agree
that he will be governed by PG&E's Rule 17, Meter Tests and Adjustment of Bills for
Meter Error, with the exception that the word "subcustomer" be substituted for
"customer" and the words "Utility's customer" be substituted for "Company." As a
further condition of service for submetering, the customer shall agree that PG&E may
inspect and examine customer's billing procedures from time to time to determine that
such service is made in accordance with this rule or as otherwise may be authorized
by the Commission.
E.
In the event such energy is furnished or resold otherwise than as provided for above,
PG&E may either discontinue service to the customer or, where feasible, furnish
electric energy directly to the subcustomer in accordance with PG&E's tariff on file
with the Commission.
Advice
Decision
6097-E
D. 21-01-018
Issued by
Robert S. Kenney
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Submitted
Effective
Resolution
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Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
48874-E
48371-E
San Francisco, California
ELECTRIC TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sheet 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SCHEDULE
CAL P.U.C.
SHEET NO.
TITLE OF SHEET
Title Page ............................................................................................................................... 48874-E
Rate Schedules ..............................48262,48263,48264,48265,48266,48267,47616,44177,48268-E
Preliminary Statements ........................................ 48269,48064,48075,41723,47619,48076,48077-E
Rules ................................................................................................................ 48066,48875,48369-E
Maps, Contracts and Deviations ............................................................................................ 37960-E
Sample Forms .................................................................. 47207,37631,47208,47620, 37632,47210,
........................................................................................ 47211,47621,47213,47622,47214,36059-E
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Decision
6097-E
D. 21-01-018
Issued by
Robert S. Kenney
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Submitted
Effective
Resolution
February 22, 2021
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Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
48875-E
48375-E
San Francisco, California
ELECTRIC TABLE OF CONTENTS
RULE
Sheet 19
CAL P.U.C.
SHEET NO.
TITLE OF SHEET
Rules (Cont’d)
Rule 11
Rule 12
Rule 13
Rule 14
Rule 15
Rule 16
Rule 17
Rule 17.1
Rule 17.2
Rule 18
Rule 19
Rule 19.1
Rule 19.2
Rule 19.3
Rule 20
Discontinuance and Restoration of Service ......... 46810,47627,46812,46813,46814,46815,13146,
............................................................ 13147,13148,13149,13150,35241,46816,42111,42112-E
Rates and Optional Rates ............................................................................ 16872,27804,43013-E
Temporary Service ............................................................................................................. 43014-E
Shortage of Supply and Interruption of Delivery ......................................................... 19762,15527,
............................................................................................ 35394,35395,35396,35397,35398-E
Distribution Line Extensions ................................ 47797,47798,47799,47800,47801,47802,47803,
......................................................................... 48045,47805,47806,47807,47808,47809,47810,
............................................................47811,47812,47813,47814,47815,47816,47817,47818-E
Service Extensions ................................... 47819,47820,47821,47822,47823,47824,47825,47826,
.............................................................. 47827,47828,47829,47830,47831,47832,47833,47834,
............................................................47835,47836,48046,47838,47839,47840,47841,47842-E
Meter Tests and Adjustment of Bills for Meter Error .......................... 20099,29723,29955,25149-E
Adjustment of Bills for Billing Error .......................................................................... 33679,29724-E
Adjustment of Bills for Unauthorized Use ......................................... 22707*,12056,12057,12058-E
Supply to Separate Premises and Submetering of Electric Energy ...... 48868,48869,48870,48871,
............................................................................................................................. 48872,48873-E
Medical Baseline Quantities ......................................................................... 43302,48370,18976-E
California Alternate Rates for Energy for Individual Customers and Submetered Tenants
of Master-Metered Customers ........................................................ 44202,46636,32656,29291-E
California Alternate Rates for Energy for Nonprofit Group-Living Facilities ...........................35305,
....................................................................................................... 46637,13589,33847,43016-E
California Alternate Rates for Energy for Qualified Agricultural Employee Housing Facilities ..........
....................................................................................................... 35307,46638,33849,43017-E
Replacement of Overhead with Underground Electric Facilities ............................................30474,
....................................................................................................... 41082,41083,41084,41085-E
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Advice
Decision
6097-E
D. 21-01-018
Issued by
Robert S. Kenney
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Submitted
Effective
Resolution
February 22, 2021
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February 22, 2021
Attachment 2
Redline Tariff Revisions
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Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
14329-E*
13273-E*
San Francisco, California
ELECTRIC RULE NO. 18
Sheet 1
SUPPLY TO SEPARATE PREMISES AND SUBMETERING OF ELECTRIC ENERGY
A.
SEPARATE METERING
Separate premises, even though owned by the same customer, will not be supplied
through the same meter, except as may be specifically provided for in the applicable
rate schedule.
B.
OTHER USES OR PREMISES
A customer shall not furnish or use electricity received from PG&E upon premises, or
for purposes, other than those specified in his the customer’s application for service
except:
1. For PG&E’s Operating Convenience as defined in PG&E’s Rule 1, or
2. Where, pursuant to D.21-01-018, microgrids owned by public agencies1 or
third-party that primarily serves a facility operated by, or on behalf of, a public
agency are permitted to supply electricity to a critical facility2 owned or
operated by, or on behalf of, a public agency on an adjacent Premises to
conduct emergency and/or critical operations during a grid outage. The public
agency, third-party owner of the microgrid, or the customer at the adjoining
Premises is required to install a device, subject to PG&E’s review and
approval, that prohibits parallel operations of the service line between the
Premises during normal operation. This exception is subject to the limitation
of Public Utilities Code Section 218. Additionally, this exception is available
until PG&E has reached the cap adopted in D.21-01-018 of ten projects that
have completed the interconnection process and received permission to
operate in PG&E’s service territory.
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1 Public
agencies for purposes of this exception are defined as state, county, local,
and tribal agencies.
For purposes of this exception, a facility is considered a critical facility if it is included
in PG&E’s existing critical facilities list. The critical facilities list is developed and
managed by PG&E in partnership with local government, and subject to the process
adopted by the CPUC in D.19-05-042 and subsequent decisions.
2
(Continued)
Advice
Decision
1649-E
Issued by
Robert S. Kenney
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Date Filed
Effective
Resolution
February 4, 1997
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Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
14329-E*
13273-E*
San Francisco, California
ELECTRIC RULE NO. 18
Sheet 1
SUPPLY TO SEPARATE PREMISES AND SUBMETERING OF ELECTRIC ENERGY
C. FURNISHING AND METERING OF ELECTRICITY
1.
RESIDENTIAL SERVICE
PG&E will furnish and meter electricity to each individual residential dwelling unit,
except:
a.
Where electricity is furnished under a rate schedule that specifically provides
for resale service; or
b.
Where a customer, or his predecessors in interest on the same premises,
was a customer on June 13, 1978, receiving electricity through a single
meter to an apartment house, mobile home park, or other multifamily
accommodation, and the cost of electricity is absorbed in the rental for the
individual dwelling unit, there is no separate identifiable charge by such
customer to the tenants for electricity, and the rent does not vary with electric
consumption; or
c.
Where a customer or his predecessors in interest on the same premises was
a customer on December 14, 1981, and submeters and furnishes electricity
to residential tenants at the same rates and charges that would be applicable
if the user were purchasing such electricity directly from PG&E; or
d.
Where a mobile home park or manufactured housing community developer,
owner or operator who installs, owns and operates the electric distribution
system within the park, submeters and furnishes electricity to residential
tenants in each occupancy, charges the same rates that would be applicable
if the user were purchasing such electricity directly from PG&E, unless
construction of a new mobilehome park, or manufactured housing
community commenced after January 1, 1997.
(Continued)
Advice
Decision
1649-E
Issued by
Robert S. Kenney
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Date Filed
Effective
Resolution
February 4, 1997
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Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
27037-E
14330-E
San Francisco, California
ELECTRIC RULE NO. 18
Sheet 2
SUPPLY TO SEPARATE PREMISES AND SUBMETERING OF ELECTRIC ENERGY
C. FURNISHING AND METERING OF ELECTRICITY (Cont'd.)
1.
RESIDENTIAL SERVICE (Cont’d.)
e.
2.
Nothing in this section shall prevent PG&E from furnishing separatelymetered service to electric equipment used in common by residential tenants
or owners.
NONRESIDENTIAL SERVICE
PG&E will furnish and meter electricity to each individual nonresidential premises
or space, except:
a.
Where electricity is furnished under a rate schedule that specifically provides
for resale service; or
b.
Where a customer is receiving electricity through a single meter and the cost
of electricity is absorbed in the rental for the individual premises or spaces,
there is no separate identifiable charge by such customer to the tenants for
electricity, and the rent does not vary with electric consumption; or where all
of the following conditions are met:
1)
Service is supplied to a high rise building* which is owned or managed
by a single entity on a single premises; and
2)
Where a master-meter customer installs, owns, and maintains electric
submeters on its existing building’s distribution system for cost allocation
of dynamic pricing and/or conservation incentive purposes the cost of
electricity allocated to the commercial building tenants will be billed at
the same rate as the master meter billed by PG&E under the CPUC
approved rate schedule servicing the master meter.
c.
Where, in the sole opinion of PG&E, it is impractical for PG&E to meter
individually each premises or space. In such a case, PG&E will meter those
premises or spaces that it is practical to meter, if any.
d.
Where the Commission has authorized PG&E to supply electric service
through a single meter and to furnish service to nonresidential tenants on the
same basis as in 1.c. above.
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*
See Rule 1 for definition of High Rise Building.
(Continued)
Advice
Decision
3115-E-A
07-09-004
Issued by
Robert S. Kenney
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Date Filed
Effective
Resolution
December 27, 2007
January 1, 2008
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Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
San Francisco, California
29056-E
13396-E,
28909-E
ELECTRIC RULE NO. 18
Sheet 3
SUPPLY TO SEPARATE PREMISES AND SUBMETERING OF ELECTRIC ENERGY
C. FURNISHING AND METERING OF ELECTRICITY (Cont'd.)
3.
MARINAS AND SMALL CRAFT HARBORS
Notwithstanding any other provision of this rule, PG&E will
furnish electrical service to the master-meter customer at a
privately or publicly owned marina or small craft harbor. The master-meter
customer may submeter individual slips or berths at the marina or harbor but may
not submeter any land-based facility or tenant.
If the master-meter customer submeters and furnishes electricity to individual
slips or berths, the rates and charges to the user must not exceed those that
would apply if the user were purchasing such electricity directly from PG&E.
4. COLD-IRONING LOAD
Cold-ironing load is defined as the use of shore-supplied electricity for the lights,
heating, cooling, machinery, and other needs of an ocean-going vessel while at
berth or otherwise electrically connected, as replacement for the vessel’s
auxiliary internal electric generation.
a. A master-metered customer may submeter a ship’s cold-ironing load aboard
an ocean-going vessel at the Port of San Francisco or the Port of Oakland
but may not submeter any other load or land-based facility.
b. If the master-metered customer submeters cold-ironing load to an oceangoing vessel, the rates and charges to the sub-metered user must not exceed
those rates and charges the master-metered customer is billed by PG&E for
such services.
5.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV) PARKS
PG&E will provide electric service to all spaces in an RV park through one meter
unless the condition under c. below applies. PG&E will not provide individual
metering to each RV space.
(Continued)
Advice
Decision
3587-E-A
Issued by
Jane K. Yura
Vice President
Regulation and Rates
Date Filed
Effective
Resolution
March 5, 2010
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Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
28910-E
13276-E
San Francisco, California
ELECTRIC RULE NO. 18
Sheet 4
SUPPLY TO SEPARATE PREMISES AND SUBMETERING OF ELECTRIC ENERGY
C. FURNISHING AND METERING OF ELECTRICITY (Cont'd.)
5.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV) PARKS (Cont'd.)
Under no circumstances shall an RV park owner/operator install submeters and
bill the tenants for submetered energy use unless condition a., b., or c. below
applies and the provisions of Section D. below are met:
a.
Where the RV park owner/operator installed a submetering system prior to
May 15, 1962.
b.
Where the RV park owner/operator rents all of the RV spaces on a prepaid
monthly basis to RV units used as permanent residences and qualifies for
service under Schedule ESR.
c.
Where a master-metered RV park owner/operator rents RV spaces on a
prepaid monthly basis to permanent-residence RV units and on a
daily/weekly basis to transient RV units and arranges the electric distribution
system in accordance with PG&E's applicable tariffs so that all electricity to
the permanent-residence RV spaces is supplied through a separate PG&E
meter. In this situation, only the separately metered portion of the RV park
where all of the spaces are rented on a prepaid monthly basis to permanentresidence RV units can be submetered and would qualify for service under
Schedule ESR.
Where the master-metered RV park owner/operator does not submeter the
electric service to the RV spaces, such energy use shall be absorbed in the
tenant's rental charge which cannot vary month to month.
Where the master-metered RV park owner/operator installed submeters prior to
May 15, 1962 (see condition a. above), the owner/operator may bill the RV park
tenants for such energy use, provided the billings are calculated using the same
rate schedules PG&E uses for billing its customers.
Where the master-metered RV park owner/operator submeters the electric
service to the permanent-residence RV park spaces under Schedule ESR (see
conditions b. and c. above), the owner/operator will bill the prepaid monthly
tenants for such energy use using the same rate schedules PG&E uses for billing
its residential customers.
(Continued)
Advice
Decision
3587-E
Issued by
Brian K. Cherry
Vice President
Regulatory Relations
Date Filed
Effective
Resolution
January 6, 2010
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Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No.
48373-E
34380-E
San Francisco, California
ELECTRIC RULE NO. 18
Sheet 5
SUPPLY TO SEPARATE PREMISES AND SUBMETERING OF ELECTRIC ENERGY
C.
FURNISHING AND METERING OF ELECTRICITY (Cont'd.)
6. ELECTRIC VEHICLES
As provided by Public Utilities Code Section 216(i), a customer who owns,
controls, operates or manages a facility that supplies electricity to the public only
for use to charge light duty plug-in electric vehicles is not a public utility and
therefore may resell electricity without regard to this Rule. As provided by
California Public Utilities Commission Decision No. 20-09-025, a customer who
owns, controls, operates or manages a facility that supplies electricity to the
public only for use to charge medium duty, heavy duty, or off-road plug-in electric
vehicles or off-road electrical equipment is not a public utility and therefore may
resell electricity without regard to this Rule. Such resale of electricity for electric
vehicle charging does not affect the Commission’s authority under Public Utilities
Code Sections 454, 740.2, or any other applicable statute.
D.
TESTING OF SUBMETERS
As a condition of service for submetering, where electric energy is furnished in
accordance with Paragraphs C.1., C.2., C.3, and C.4. above, customers using
submeters as a basis for charges for electricity shall submit to PG&E certification by a
meter testing laboratory, satisfactory to PG&E, as to the accuracy of the submeters
upon initial installation of such submeters, or for existing submeters upon request of
PG&E. As a further condition of service for submetering, the customer shall agree
that he will be governed by PG&E's Rule 17, Meter Tests and Adjustment of Bills for
Meter Error, with the exception that the word "subcustomer" be substituted for
"customer" and the words "Utility's customer" be substituted for "Company." As a
further condition of service for submetering, the customer shall agree that PG&E may
inspect and examine customer's billing procedures from time to time to determine that
such service is made in accordance with this rule or as otherwise may be authorized
by the Commission.
E.
In the event such energy is furnished or resold otherwise than as provided for above,
PG&E may either discontinue service to the customer or, where feasible, furnish
electric energy directly to the subcustomer in accordance with PG&E's tariff on file
with the Commission.
Advice
Decision
5975-E-A
D.20-09-025
Issued by
Robert S. Kenney
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Submitted
Effective
Resolution
January 25, 2021
January 25, 2021
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PG&E Gas and Electric
Advice Submittal List
General Order 96-B, Section IV
AT&T
Albion Power Company
East Bay Community Energy Ellison
Schneider & Harris LLP Energy
Management Service
Alta Power Group, LLC
Anderson & Poole
Engineers and Scientists of California
Atlas ReFuel
BART
Barkovich & Yap, Inc.
California Cotton Ginners & Growers Assn
California Energy Commission
California Hub for Energy Efficiency
Financing
California Alternative Energy and
Advanced Transportation Financing
Authority
California Public Utilities Commission
Calpine
Cameron-Daniel, P.C.
Casner, Steve
Cenergy Power
Center for Biological Diversity
Chevron Pipeline and Power
City of Palo Alto
City of San Jose
Clean Power Research
Coast Economic Consulting
Commercial Energy
Crossborder Energy
Crown Road Energy, LLC
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Day Carter Murphy
Dept of General Services
Don Pickett & Associates, Inc.
Douglass & Liddell
GenOn Energy, Inc.
Goodin, MacBride, Squeri, Schlotz &
Ritchie
Green Power Institute
Hanna & Morton
ICF
IGS Energy
International Power Technology
Intestate Gas Services, Inc.
Kelly Group
Ken Bohn Consulting
Keyes & Fox LLP
Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Los Angeles County Integrated
Waste Management Task Force
MRW & Associates
Manatt Phelps Phillips
Marin Energy Authority
McKenzie & Associates
Modesto Irrigation District
NLine Energy, Inc.
NRG Solar
Office of Ratepayer Advocates
OnGrid Solar
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Peninsula Clean Energy
Pioneer Community Energy
Redwood Coast Energy Authority
Regulatory & Cogeneration Service, Inc.
SCD Energy Solutions
San Diego Gas & Electric Company
SPURR
San Francisco Water Power and Sewer
Sempra Utilities
Sierra Telephone Company, Inc.
Southern California Edison Company
Southern California Gas Company
Spark Energy
Sun Light & Power
Sunshine Design
Tecogen, Inc.
TerraVerde Renewable Partners
Tiger Natural Gas, Inc.
TransCanada
Utility Cost Management
Utility Power Solutions
Water and Energy Consulting Wellhead
Electric Company
Western Manufactured Housing
Communities Association (WMA)
Yep Energy
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