Service Quality Standards Regulatory Policy Models: Summary
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Explore the current service quality standards, penalty benchmarks, and customer service guarantees in the regulatory policy model presented at the Steering Committee Meeting on May 14, 2013.
Service Quality Standards Regulatory Policy Models: Summary
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MA Grid Modernization:Steering Committee Meeting – May 14, 2013Regulatory Policy Models:Miscellaneous Background Information May 14, 2013
Current Rates and Riders in Massachusetts • Transmission Charge (FERC) • Customer Charge • Distribution Charge • Transition Charge • Riders: • Residential Assistance Adjustment Charge • Demand Side Management Charge • Energy Efficiency Reconciliation Factor • Renewable Energy Charge • Net Metering Recovery Surcharge • Solar Program Cost Adjustment • Smart Grid Adjustment Factors • Pension Adjustment Factor • Incremental Capital Expenditure Charge Note: the actual set of riders varies by utility.
Current Service Quality Standards - Summary • Annual SQ performance reports compare each company’s annual performance to its historical performance (Not to an absolute standard). • Benchmarks based on historical performance by company (3 year minimum, 10 year maximum of data). • Companies report on penalty benchmarks. • Companies report on customer service guarantees. • Companies submit non-penalty reporting data.
Current SQ Standards – Customer Service Guarantee • Awards $50.00 payment for • Service appointments missed • Lack of notification for planned outages • Payments must be paid immediately to customers • Payments are subtracted from maximum penalty of 2.5% of transmission and distribution revenues
Current SQ Standards – Annual Reporting • Customer Surveys • Restricted Work Day Rate • Electric Distribution Line Loss • Damage to electric company property exceeding $50,000 • Damage to any property exceeding $5,000 for gas companies • Interruptions due to Major Excludable Events • Tree Trimming Policy • Capital Expenditures • Spare Parts Inventory • IEEE-I366 Performance • Staffing Levels • Emergency Response Times • Transmission & Distribution Revenue • Feeder Circuit Report • Sustained Electric Service Interruptions reported as they occur
DPU Service Quality NOI – Docket 12-120 • DPU asks whether it should consider: • customer level reliability • Worker safety incident metric • Website quality metric • Quality and accuracy of communication with customers • Penalties associated with responses to downed wires • Distributed generation interconnection timelines • Adding any other SQ metrics • Eliminating any existing metrics • Different benchmarks • National or regional standard • Increasing over time • Comments have been submitted. • Reply comments due soon.