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PPL Electric Utilities Interim Budget Billing Program

2. PPL's Interim Budget Billing Program. Background Information:November 19, 2009 - PA PUC issued an order approving the joint petition for settlement submitted by PPL and other interested parties regarding the PPL POR program. The order approved the program for 2010.The POR settlement specifies

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PPL Electric Utilities Interim Budget Billing Program

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    1. 1 PPL Electric Utilities Interim Budget Billing Program January 27, 2010

    2. 2 PPL’s Interim Budget Billing Program Background Information: November 19, 2009 - PA PUC issued an order approving the joint petition for settlement submitted by PPL and other interested parties regarding the PPL POR program. The order approved the program for 2010. The POR settlement specifies that EGS customers on consolidated EDC billing will be able to select budget billing. The settlement further states that PPL will pay EGSs based on actual billed supplier charges less the POR discount (versus budget amounts). PPL currently does not calculate a budget amount for EGS charges. This is a significant programming effort that PPL will undertake during 2010. In the meantime, PPL has developed an Interim Budget Billing Program. Interim Budget Billing Program: PPL provides the EGS with a full discounted payment for total actual charges. PPL remits to the EGS in accordance with the remittance schedule (20 days for non-residential, 25 days for residential) via an EDI 820 transaction. The customer’s bill shows both the EDC budget amount and the EGS budget amount. (see slide 8 for sample) Amounts will be summed as they are today in the Pay This Amount field The bill will show a text message communicating the EGS budget bill balance to the customer if the EGS provides this in the EDI 810. A modified version of the EDI 810 transaction supports communication of budget information from the EGS to PPL.

    3. 3 EDI 810 Requirements: The EGS sends the various charge lines passed today plus a new EGS Budget Bill Adjustment amount – See EDI 810 SAMPLE X12 attachment The new EGS Budget Bill Adjustment requires suppliers to send PPL a new SAC01 code indicating a charge that needs to be placed on the bill under the supplier section. This SAC01 line for the budget bill adjustment is designated with an “S” instead of a “C”. The “S” designation allows PPL to exclude the budget bill adjustment from the POR calculation while allowing PPL to present the adjustment on the bill. The EGS also provides a budget deferral amount message in the EDI to inform the customer of where they are in the EGS Budget Bill program. This requires the EGS to track the budget bill balance so that the message can report the actual amount (for the particular billing period) as well as the cumulative budget balance. PPL places this message on the bill if provided in EDI. Please note, in order to give the customer a whole dollar budget amount, the EGS must consider all possible charges to be sent (i.e. sales tax). PPL’s Interim Budget Billing Program

    4. 4 EGS Budget Amount Calculation: PPL provides three fields related to historical usage on the EDI 814 Enrollment Response: Peak Demand Total kWh Number of months included in above (usually 12). The EGS calculates the budget amount using the historical usage information within the enrollment response along with the EGS’s price. A description of PPL’s budget billing program has been provided as a separate attachment. PPL’s Interim Budget Billing Program

    5. 5 Budget Settlement: The EGS is responsible to true-up the budget amount. The EGS sends a new EGS Budget Bill True-Up Amount – See EDI 810 SAMPLE X12 attachment The new EGS Budget True-Up amount requires suppliers to send PPL a new SAC01 code indicating a charge that needs to be placed on the bill under the supplier section. This SAC01 line for the budget true-up amount is designated with an “P” instead of a “C”. The “P” designation allows PPL to exclude the budget bill true-up amount from the POR calculation while allowing PPL to recognize that a budget settlement has been completed. PPL tracks customers’ supplier budget billing balances. Periodically, PPL provides information to each EGS to ensure that our records (deferred balances) are in sync with the EGS. PPL anticipates using our records of deferred balances to transition to PPL’s permanent budget billing solution for supplier charges. PPL sends the "F" in BPT07 (Final Indicator) on the 867 transaction when a customer drops to POLR, switches to another EGS, or finals for any reason. Suppliers can use this indicator to trigger budget bill settlement within their system. PPL’s Interim Budget Billing Program

    6. 6 Cancel/Rebills: The interim budget billing solution does not change how the PPL cancel/rebill process works. Overview of PPL Cancel/Rebill Process PPL cancels billing period within billing system – both PPL and EGS charges are removed from the account. The status of the account appears as it did prior to the cancelled billing period. PPL sends a cancel 867 for the cancelled billing period to the EGS. PPL sends reverse 820 at the same time as the cancel 867. PPL initiates rebilling of cancelled period & sends EGS a new 867. EGS sends new 810 transaction. PPL creates a new bill – customer bill shows “corrected bill”. Note: Suppliers need to cancel charges within their own system and revert to status of the account (including status of budget billing) prior to the cancelled billing period. PPL’s Interim Budget Billing Program

    7. 7 Schedule: Implementation of PPL’s Interim Budget Billing Program is planned for January 29 to support February billing. PPL plans to be ready to receive 810s with the budget billing designations on February 1. We are having individual discussions with Suppliers who are planning to do budget billing. If you are interested in budget billing & have not yet contacted our Supplier Coordination group, please contact them so that we can follow-up. PPL believes it would be prudent to test the 810 transaction. If you are interested in testing, please contact our Supplier Coordination Group. PPL’s Interim Budget Billing Program

    8. 8 SAMPLE SUPPLIER SECTION OF BILL Customer Charge                               $10.00 Energy ###kwh at $0.0# per KWH     $75.00 Demand Charge $10.00 State Sales Tax                                   $5.70 Budget Bill Adjustment                      -$20.70                                                         -------------------------- Total Supplier Charges                        $80   In the months where the budget is more than the actual, the example would appear as:   Customer Charge                                 $10.00 Energy ###kwh at $0.0# per KWH      $25.00 Demand Charge $ 2.00 State Sales Tax                                     $4.20 Budget Bill Adjustment                          $38.80                                                         -------------------------- Total Supplier Charges                          $80

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