Notice of Utility Tariff Filing
The REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA (Commission) gives notice that Alaska Electric Light & Power Company (AEL&P) filed tariff revision TA453-1, a revenue requirement study and cost of service study based on a 2015 test year. With this filing, AEL&P requests an interim and refundable across-the-board rate increase of 3.86 percent, effective November 1, 2016, and a proposed permanent rate increase of 8.1 percent. A selection of the current, proposed interim, and proposed permanent rates are in the table below.
| Description | Current Rates | Proposed Interim Rates | Proposed Permanent Rates |
| Residential | Winter | Summer | Winter | Summer | Winter | Summer |
| Energy Charge $/kWh | $0.1194 | $0.0982 | $0.1240 | $0.1020 | $0.1291 | $0.1062 |
| Customer Charge per month | $8.88 | $8.88 | $9.22 | $9.22 | $9.60 | $9.60 |
| Small Commercial |
| Energy Charge $/kWh | $0.1157 | $0.0920 | $0.1202 | $0.0956 | $0.1251 | $0.0995 |
| Customer Charge per month | $18.80 | $18.80 | $19.53 | $19.53 | $20.32 | $20.32 |
| Large Commercial |
| Energy Charge $/kWh | $0.0611 | $0.0573 | $0.0635 | $0.0595 | $0.0660 | $0.0619 |
| Demand Charge $/kW | $14.30 | $9.11 | $14.85 | $9.46 | $15.46 | $9.85 |
| Customer Charge per month | $99.24 | $99.24 | $103.07 | $103.07 | $107.28 | $107.28 |
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AEL&P also proposes to increase the amount of projected interruptible sales revenue, from Helca Greens Creek Mining Company, Inc. (HGCMC), used in the calculation of AEL&P’s Cost of Power Adjustment (COPA). AEL&P’s currently approved COPA provides that any monthly amount exceeding $554,480 received from energy sales to HGCMC will be flowed through the COPA as a credit to the COPA balancing account. If monthly energy revenues from HGCMC are less than $554,480, the difference is a debit to the COPA balancing account. AEL&P proposes to increase the retained HGCMC revenue amount to $797,473.
This notice does not contain all of the revisions proposed in TA453-1. The Commission may approve a rate or classification which varies from those proposed. You may obtain more information about this filing by contacting Connie Hulbert, Treasurer for AEL&P, at 5601 Tonsgard Court, Juneau, AK, 99801; phone: (907) 463-6313; email: connie.hulbert@aelp.com; or Dean D. Thompson, Counsel for AEL&P, at 255 E. Fireweed Lane, Suite 200, Anchorage, Alaska 99503; phone: (907) 277-1604; email: ddt@khe.com. The complete filing is also available for inspection at the Commission’s office at 701 West 8th Avenue, Suite 300, Anchorage, AK 99501; phone: (907) 276-6222, or may be viewed at the Commission’s website at http://rca.alaska.gov by typing “TA453-1” in the Find a Matter search box.
To comment on this filing, please file your comments by 5:00 p.m., October 20, 2016, at the Commission’s address given above or via our website at:
https://rca.alaska.gov/RCAWeb/WhatsNew/PublicNoticesComments.aspx
Please reference TA453-1 and include a statement that you have filed a copy of the comments with AEL&P at its address given above or by email at the email addresses listed above.
Individuals or groups of people with disabilities, who require special accommodations, auxiliary aids or service, or alternative communication formats, please contact Joyce McGowan at (907) 276-6222, toll-free at 1-800-390-2782, TTY (907) 276-4533 or send a request via electronic mail to rca.mail@alaska.gov by October 13, 2016.
DATED at Anchorage, Alaska, this 20th day of October, 2016.
REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA
Julie C. Vogler
Finance Section Manager