Working on a Georgia Power audit for a manufacturing client in Atlanta and I'm finding some questionable line items buried in their Schedule PL tariff. There's a $0.85/kW charge labeled 'System Reliability Enhancement' that wasn't in last year's schedule. No explanation in the tariff language about what this actually covers. Anyone else seeing this show up on their Georgia Power bills?
Anyone else notice Georgia Power hiding costs in their 2018 rate schedules?
Derek, I've got three clients in Birmingham that take service from Georgia Power for some of their facilities. Just checked their bills and yes, that charge showed up in July 2018. Called Georgia Power and they said it's related to transmission upgrades, but it sounds like distribution-level stuff when they describe it. Might be worth filing an informal complaint with the Georgia PSC.
Val, good catch on the transmission versus distribution issue. That's exactly what I was thinking - if it's really transmission costs they should be going through the FERC process, not getting buried in a retail tariff schedule. The Georgia PSC filing shows this as 'distribution system improvements' but the utility is calling it transmission. Classic cost shifting.