National Grid Default Service Rates Changing Slightly With Approval of Updated Adders
April 29,2015
The Massachusetts DPU has allowed National Grid to implement, subject to further investigation, National Grid's new basic service costs adder aka basic service administrative cost factor.
The new adders will take effect May 1, subject to later reconciliation if necessary.
The allowed adders are: (1) for residential customers -- $0.00326 per kilowatt-hour (“kWh”); (2) for commercial customers (rate classes G-1 and streetlighting) -- $0.00175 per kWh; and (3) for industrial customers (rate classes G2 and G3) -- $0.00120 per kWh.
The basic service costs adders are designed to recover certain costs associated with its provision of basic service, including supply-related costs for: (1) cash working capital; (2) bad debt; (3) administration of basic service; (4) conducting the competitive bidding processes; and (5) regulatory compliance.
National Grid had been including the updated adders in its online chart of "proposed" basic service rates for the period beginning May 1, 2015. However, the base basic service rates for such period had already been approved, so if you referenced the specific tariff filing updating the May 1 base basic service rates, the new adders would not have been reflected
The new rates with the adders (still listed as proposed) can be found on National Grid's website