[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 33 (Thursday, February 17, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 9349]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-3596]


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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 a new rate schedule JW-1-J to replace 
Wholesale Power Rate Schedules JW-1-I for a five-year period from 
September 20, 2011, to September 19, 2016. Rate schedule JW-1-J would 
be applicable to Southeastern power sold to existing preference 
customers in the Florida Power Corporation service (Progress Energy) 
area. In addition, Southeastern proposes to extend Rate schedule JW-2-
F, applicable to Florida Power Corporation, to September 19, 2016.

DATES: Written comments are due on or before May 18, 2011. A public 
information and public comment forum will be held at Courtyard by 
Marriott, in Tallahassee, Florida, at 10 a.m. on March 29, 2011. 
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 also 
notify Southeastern at least seven (7) days before the forum is 
scheduled. If Southeastern has not been notified by close of business 
on March 22, 2011, 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, 1018 Apalachee Parkway, 
Tallahassee, Florida, 32301 Phone: (850) 222-8822.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. W. Smith, 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 2009 Repayment Study and other supporting data contained in FERC 
Docket No. EF09-3031-000. A repayment study prepared in January 2011 
shows that the existing rates are adequate to meet repayment criteria. 
However, the Jim Woodruff preference customers have asked Southeastern 
to revise the rates to include a pass-through of purchased power 
expenses. The capacity and energy charges to preference customers can 
be reduced because purchased power expenses will be recovered in a 
separate, pass-through charge to the affected customers.
    In the proposed rate schedule JW-1-J, which is available to 
preference customers, the capacity charge would be reduced from $13.06 
per kilowatt per month to $10.29 per kilowatt per month. The energy 
charge would be reduced from 32.07 mills per kilowatt-hour to 26.51 
mills per kilowatt-hour. Rate schedule JW-2-F, available to Florida 
Power Corporation (FPC), would continue the rate of 100 percent of 
FPC's fuel cost.
    In addition to the capacity and energy charges, each preference 
customer would be charged for power purchased by Southeastern on behalf 
of the preference customer. This pass-through would be computed as 
follows:

    On or about the 20th of each month, Progress Energy would 
provide Southeastern with the meter readings for preference 
customers' delivery points that have an allocation of capacity from 
Southeastern. Subsequently, Progress Energy would provide 
Southeastern with reports of purchased power and support capacity 
requirements around the 10th of the succeeding month. Southeastern 
would compute its purchased power obligation for each delivery point 
monthly. Southeastern would compute any revenue from sales to 
Progress Energy for each delivery point monthly. Southeastern would 
sum the purchased power obligation and any revenue from sales to 
Progress Energy for each preference customer monthly. The purchased 
power obligation minus any revenue from sales to Progress Energy for 
each customer would be called the Net Purchased Power Cost. 
Southeastern would charge each customer its respective monthly Net 
Purchased Power Cost in equal portions over the next eleven (11) 
billing months. This computation of the pass-through would begin 
twelve (12) months before the pass-through is implemented. The first 
bill prepared using this method would include the computations for 
the previous twelve (12) months.

    The proposed rate schedules are available for examination at 1166 
Athens Tech Road, Elberton, Georgia, 30635-6711, as is the January 2011 
repayment study.

    Dated: February 9, 2011.
Kenneth E. Legg,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2011-3596 Filed 2-16-11; 8:45 am]
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