Bonneville Power Administration's wholesale power rates for the FY 2007-2009 rate period were established during the WP-07 Rate Case through a formal process described in Section 7(i) of the Northwest Power Act. The rate case concluded when the Administrator signed the Final Record of Decision on July 17, 2006. The complete rate case record was then sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for their review. FERC granted interim approval to the 2007 Wholesale Power Rates Schedules and General Rate Schedule Provisions (GRSPs) on September 21, 2006. On November 22, 2006, the document was updated and reposted here to incorporate FERC’s interim approval and all corrections to date; 2007 Wholesale Power Rate Schedules and 2007 General Rate Schedule Provisions . (PDF, 176 pages, 927 KB) Subject to final approval from FERC, these rates were to be in effect from October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2009 (FY 2007-2009).
On May 3, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued opinions in two separate lawsuits. One case dealt with the way BPA allocated the costs of its 2000 Residential Exchange Program (REP) Settlement Agreements with the region's Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs) in BPA’s 2002-2006 rates. Because these rulings dealt with issues replicated in 2007-2009 rates, BPA requested a stay in the final approval of its FY 2007-2009 power rates. In July, 2008, BPA responded to the Court’s holdings through a WP-07 Supplemental Power Rate Case. The results of this rate case affects FY 2009 rates as published in the 2007 Supplemental Wholesale Rate Schedule and General Rate Schedule Provisions (FY 2009). The supplemental rate case concluded when the Administrator signed the 2007 Supplemental Final Record of Decision on September 22, 2008. BPA received interim approval from FERC on October 31, 2008. The revised rates for the FY 2009 rate period will be in effect from October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009.
If necessary, BPA adjusts its rates in accordance with the GRSPs through the annual Cost Recovery Adjustment Clause (CRAC), the NFB1/ Adjustment, and the Emergency NFB1/Surcharge. There are no adjustments or surcharges at this time. See Table 1: Total Adjusted Power Rates for current monthly base rates. Information regarding past power rates is available via the Previous Power Rates page.
1/ National Marine Fisheries Service [NMFS] Federal Columbia River Power System [FCRPS] Biological Opinion [BiOp] Adjustment.
The table below shows the adjusted rates for the five major rate schedules, as described in the GRSPs, for FY 2009. In all cases, there is no change from the base rates as established in the WP-07 Supplemental Rate Case. Therefore, the adjusted rate is the same as the base rate for this fiscal year. See the 2007 Supplemental Wholesale Power Rates Schedules for the actual rates charged by monthly Heavy Load Hours (HLH) and Light Load Hours (LLH).
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RATE CATEGORY |
Adjusted rates with 0.00% CRAC Adjustment for 10/1/08 - 9/30/09 (Rates in $/MWh3/ except Slice) |
|---|---|
| PF Preference – 07R
Non-Slice (average4/, undelivered) |
26.90 |
|
PF Preference – 07R
|
$1,872,639 |
| PF Exchange-07R
(average, undelivered) |
47.54 |
| PF Exchange-07R
(base, undelivered) |
38.74 |
| IP-07R
(flat, undelivered) |
34.82 |
|
NR-07R
|
68.45 |
2/ The rates represented in this table assume the CRAC adjustment for this fiscal year. The rates do not include the cost of transmission. The rates shown also do not include the application of the Conservation Rate Credit (CRC). Each IP, NR, and PF Preference customer is eligible for the CRC rate credit, set at 0.5 mills/kWh and applied to its eligible loads.
3/ $1/MWh = 1 mill/kWh = 0.1¢/kWh.
4/ The average non-slice PF rate is calculated by dividing the forecast of all PF revenues by the total forecast of PF sales for the 36 months of the rate period. The actual rate paid by an individual customer will vary according to the shape of the load and the products and services purchased.
5/ The Slice rate is for one percent of the system, excluding true-ups.
Table 1 below shows the Total Adjusted Power Rates (Base Rates with 0% CRAC Adjustment Applied) for FY 2009 (October 1, 2008 – September 30, 2009). BPA is not expecting to rates adjustments to the revised base power rates for FY 2009.
| Table 1: | |||
| Total Adjusted Power Rates | |||
| (Base Rates with CRAC Adjustment Applied) | |||
| October 1, 2008 - September 30, 2009 | |||
| Increased Revenue Required (CRAC %) |
0% |
||
| Change in Slice Rate |
N/A |
||
| Change in non-Slice Rate (CRAC %) |
0% |
||
| Change in NFB Adjustment |
0% |
||
| Change in NFB Emergency Surcharge |
$0 |
||
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| PF rates | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | |
| HLH | ($/MWh) | 29.21 | 31.15 | 32.51 | 27.60 | 28.19 | 26.15 | 24.54 | 20.50 | 18.55 | 22.85 | 26.76 | 27.62 |
| LLH | ($/MWh) | 21.40 | 22.72 | 23.85 | 19.96 | 20.16 | 19.17 | 17.64 | 14.17 | 09.85 | 16.73 | 19.85 | 22.17 |
| Demand | ($/kW-mo) | 1.91 | 2.04 | 2.14 | 1.82 | 1.85 | 1.72 | 1.62 | 1.34 | 1.23 | 1.50 | 1.76 | 1.82 |
| IP rates | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | |
| HLH | ($/MWh) | 32.26 | 35.00 | 36.91 | 30.00 | 30.83 | 27.96 | 25.70 | 20.02 | 17.28 | 23.33 | 28.82 | 30.04 |
| LLH | ($/MWh) | 21.28 | 23.14 | 24.74 | 19.26 | 19.54 | 18.15 | 15.99 | 11.12 | 5.05 | 14.72 | 19.11 | 22.36 |
| Demand | ($/kW-mo) | 1.91 | 2.04 | 2.14 | 1.82 | 1.85 | 1.72 | 1.62 | 1.34 | 1.23 | 1.5 | 1.76 | 1.82 |
| NR rates | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | |
| HLH | ($/MWh) | 74.82 | 80.39 | 84.28 | 70.21 | 71.90 | 66.05 | 61.45 | 49.88 | 44.31 | 56.62 | 67.81 | 70.29 |
| LLH | ($/MWh) | 52.46 | 56.25 | 59.49 | 48.35 | 48.92 | 46.07 | 41.69 | 31.76 | 19.40 | 39.09 | 48.03 | 54.66 |
| Demand | ($/kW-mo) | 1.91 | 2.04 | 2.14 | 1.82 | 1.85 | 1.72 | 1.62 | 1.34 | 1.23 | 1.50 | 1.76 | 1.82 |
| PF exchange rates | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | |
| Separate PF Exchange rates for each participating utility are posted monthly on the average system cost (ASC) web site. See the ASC site for specific data. | |||||||||||||
| The Load Variance Rate is 0.46 $/MWh when applicable | |||||||||||||
| A Supplemental rate charge of $8.80/MWh shall be added to each IP and NR energy rate listed above. | |||||||||||||
Supplemental FY 2009 Wholesale Power Rate Schedules and
FY 2009 General Rate Schedule Provisions (GRSPs)
(PDF, 156 pages, 603 KB, originally posted as Appendix A to
the WP-07 Supplemental Final Record of Decision)
(1938 - September 2008)
Content provided by: Julia Shaughnessy, 503-230-7443, jmshaughnessy@bpa.gov.
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