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[ *** ] On June 24, 2024, UI and The Connecticut Light and Power Company d/b/a Eversource Energy (Eversource; jointly electric distribution companies or EDCs) jointly submitted a motion (Motion No. 14)1 requesting, inter alia, that the Authority establish a rate within each EDCs’ RAM to recover electric vehicle program (EV Program) expenses as a “known and measurable” amount, beginning September 1, 2024, subject to a prudence review and reconciliation of collected costs and actual costs as part of the 2025 RAM proceeding for each EDC. Motion No. 14, pp. 2–3. In addition, the EDCs request that PURA authorize the recovery of program expenses incurred (and deferred) from the EV Program start in 2021 through December 31, 2024, over a 20-month amortization, September 1, 2024, through April 30, 2026. Id., p. 3.

Accordingly, the Authority hereby reopens the record in this proceeding for the limited purpose of receiving testimony and additional evidence regarding UI’s EV Program expenses and the potential recovery of such expenses through UI’s RAM rates, effective September 1, 2024. Additionally, Parties and Intervenors may submit supplemental briefs on the topic of UI’s EV Program expenses and the potential recovery thereof by Wednesday, July 17, 2024, at 4:00 p.m.

The Authority hereby notifies Parties and Intervenors that it will hold a hearing, if requested in writing, on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., at the PURA offices, Ten Franklin Square, New Britain, Connecticut, to receive testimony and additional evidence regarding UI’s EV Program expenses and potential recovery of such expenses through RAM rates, effective September 1, 2024. If a written request to hold such hearing is not filed with the Authority on or before Monday, July 1, 2024, at 4:00 p.m., the right to request a hearing shall be deemed waived, and the hearing will be cancelled.

Notice (06/26/2024)
24-01-04 (10/02/2023)
(PURA Annual Review of the Rate Adjustment Mechanisms of The United Illuminating Company)