[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 11, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10570-10571]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-5168]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Southeastern Power Administration


Jim Woodruff Project

AGENCY: Southeastern Power Administration, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rate adjustment.

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SUMMARY: Southeastern proposes new rate schedules JW-1-I and JW-2-F to 
replace Wholesale Power Rate Schedules JW-1-H and JW-2-E for a five-
year period from September 20, 2009 to September 19, 2014. Rate 
schedule JW-1-I is applicable to Southeastern power sold to existing 
preference customers in the Florida Power Corporation service (Progress 
Energy) area. Rate schedule JW-2-F is applicable to Florida Power 
Corporation.

DATES: Written comments are due on or before June 9, 2009. A public 
information and public comment forum will be held at Courtyard by 
Marriott Tallahassee Capital, in Tallahassee, Florida, at 10 a.m. on 
April 23, 2009. Persons desiring to speak at the forum are requested to 
notify Southeastern at least seven (7) days before the forum is 
scheduled so that a list of forum participants can be prepared. Others 
present may speak if time permits. Persons desiring to attend the forum 
should notify Southeastern at least seven (7) days before the forum is 
scheduled. If Southeastern has not been notified by close of business 
on April 16, 2009, that at least one person intends to be present at 
the forum, the forum will be canceled with no further notice.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Kenneth E. Legg, 
Administrator, Southeastern Power Administration, Department of Energy, 
1166 Athens Tech Road, Elberton, Georgia 30635-6711. The public comment 
Forum will meet at the Courtyard by Marriott Tallahassee Capital, 1018 
Apalachee Parkway, Tallahassee, Florida, 32301, Phone (850) 222-8822.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leon Jourolmon, Assistant 
Administrator, Finance and Marketing Division, Southeastern Power 
Administration, Department of Energy, 1166 Athens Tech Road, Elberton, 
Georgia 30635-6711, (706) 213-3800.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Existing rate schedules are supported by a 
July 2004 Repayment Study and other supporting data contained in FERC 
Docket No. EF04-3031-000. A repayment study prepared in February 2009 
shows that the existing rates are not adequate to meet repayment 
criteria. A revised repayment study with a revenue increase of 
$5,575,000, or 70.6 percent, for Fiscal Year 2009, through the end of 
the study, demonstrates that all costs are paid within their repayment 
life. The increase is primarily due to drought and higher energy prices 
for purchase power and higher Corps of Engineers operation and 
maintenance expense. Southeastern is proposing to raise rates to 
recover this additional revenue.
    In the proposed rate schedule JW-1-I, which is available to 
preference customers, the capacity charge has been raised from $6.95 
per kilowatt per month to $12.62 per kilowatt per month. The energy 
charge has been increased

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from 19.95 mills per kilowatt-hour to 36.21 mills per kilowatt-hour. 
Rate schedule JW-2-F, available to Florida Power Corporation, raises 
the rate from 90 percent of the Company's fuel cost to 100 percent of 
the Company's fuel cost.
    The proposed rate schedules are available for examination at 1166 
Athens Tech Road, Elberton, Georgia, 30635-6711, as is the February 
2009 repayment study.

    Dated: March 4, 2009.
Kenneth E. Legg,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. E9-5168 Filed 3-10-09; 8:45 am]
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