普吉特海湾能源公司已向华盛顿公用事业和运输委员会（UTC）提交了三年费率计划申请。如果获得 UTC 批准，新费率将于 2027 年初生效
。该费率计划使PSE能够继续为我们的170万客户提供安全可靠的能源，满足不断增长的能源需求，并在实现华盛顿州雄心勃勃的清洁能源目标方面继续取得进展。
什么是一般费率案例？
一般费率案例是一种正式的监管程序，在该程序中，普吉特海湾能源公司要求UTC授权调整客户费率，通常每隔几年发生一次。该委员会对PSE的成本、投资和运营进行全面、独立的审查，以确保客户为安全、可靠的能源服务支付公平的费率。
为什么 PSE 要提起一般税率诉讼？
该费率计划反映了PSE必须进行的大量资本投资，以继续向客户提供安全可靠的天然气和电力服务，确保足够的容量来满足不断增长的能源需求，并在华盛顿州的清洁能源需求方面继续取得进展。
维护和现代化关键基础设施
- 在未来三年中，PSE需要在其天然气和电力系统上投资超过32亿美元。
- 该投资中约有70％用于电力系统，该系统承受的压力越来越大。电气系统投资侧重于系统安全性和可靠性，满足不断增长的客户需求，以及加强 PSE 的基础设施以应对更恶劣的天气和野火风险 。
- 该投资的其余部分（约30％）为PSE的近900,000名天然气客户维护了系统安全并维护了当前的基础设施。
投资清洁能源，发电资源以提高产能
- 根据州法律，PSE必须在2030-2033年之前达到一个重要的里程碑：提供80％的电力来自可再生或非排放资源。费率计划包括11个新的公用事业规模的可再生能源项目——这些风能、太阳能和电池项目主要位于华盛顿和蒙大拿州，有助于缩小差距，但不能 完全满足州要求。 税@@
- 率计划中包括超过5.29亿美元的联邦税收抵免，这些抵免将通过降低新一代项目的成本直接使客户受益。由于联邦税法的变化，这些抵免即将到期，因此迫切需要快速完成项目。此外，客户将从最近完工的Beaver Creek风力发电设施的税收抵免中获得2.46亿美元的收益 。
- 该文件还涵盖了容量资源——电池、燃气轮机和燃气发电——以支持阳光不照和风不吹时的可靠服务，并满足不断增长的客户能源需求。
- PSE为满足客户需求和遵守清洁能源目标而建造的所有新一代资源的资本支出计划总额超过36亿美元。这些项目成本的回收将分散几十年。
提供安全、可靠和清洁能源的资本投资（2027-2029）
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New resource acquisition: Capital expenditures focus on building new wind and solar generation plants, batteries, and natural gas generation to meet Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) goals and ensure a reliable energy supply as customer needs grow. These investments are critical for PSE to meet the requirement to provide greenhouse gas-neutral electricity for the first four-year CETA compliance period, which begins Jan. 1, 2030, and to support long-term reliability and clean energy access for customers. Operating the gas and electric systems: Capital expenditures include upgrades and modernization of the electric and gas systems, cable replacement, circuit modernization, automation, substation upgrades, and aging infrastructure replacement. These projects reduce outages, shorten restoration times, and strengthen the grid’s resilience to storms and other threats, ensuring customers receive safe, reliable, high-quality energy service daily. Information technology: Capital expenditures address outdated technology and enhancement of PSE’s operations and customer support. These projects modernize and protect the systems that support PSE’s operations and customer service, enhance cybersecurity, and improve digital workplace tools. By replacing outdated technology, PSE ensures its systems can operate reliably, maintain data security, and deliver a quality customer experience. Existing energy resources: Capital expenditures support the ongoing maintenance, safety, and reliability of existing generation assets, including hydro, wind, and thermal plants. Projects in this area include dam safety upgrades, routine maintenance to prevent failures, and regulatory compliance. These investments help maintain a resilient energy supply, reduce operational risks, and ensure customers benefit from dependable, increasingly clean energy. Transmission, interconnection and reliability: Capital expenditures to support PSE’s long-term transmission planning, interconnection, resilience and reliability. Customer operations: Capital expenditures support strategic investments in customer engagement and service capabilities, including improving specialized customer support for small and large businesses, facilitating Distributed Energy Resources (DER) such as solar, storage, and managed charging, as well as pole services, among others. These investments will help the company improve customer service, meet regulatory obligations, and support economic development in the communities we serve.
What are the customer impacts?
If the request is approved by the UTC, a typical residential electric customer using 800 kWh per month would see a monthly bill increase starting in early 2027 of approximately $28, about $7 in 2028 and nearly $16 in 2029. A typical natural gas residential customer using 64 therms per month would see a monthly bill increase of about $14 in early 2027, about $4 in 2028 and nearly $5 in 2029.
Proposed changes by service schedule:
Electric
| 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schedule | RY1 | FY2 | RY3 | |
| Residential | 7 (307) (327) | 16.75% | 3.76% | 8.81% |
| Sec Volt Gen Svc | 08 (24) | 13.69% | 3.64% | 8.46% |
| Sec Volt Gen Med Dem Svc | 7A (11) (25) | 13.17% | 3.72% | 8.53% |
| Sec Volt Gen Lg Dem Svc | 12 (26) (26P) | 13.82% | 3.96% | 8.94% |
| Sec Volt Irrig & Pump Svc | 29 | 12.35% | 3.90% | 8.74% |
| Pri Volt Gen Svc | 10 (31) | 11.93% | 3.86% | 8.73% |
| Pri Volt Irrig & Pump Svc | 35 | Proposing to close | ||
| Pri Volt Intr Elec Sch | 43 | 13.64% | 4.01% | 9.15% |
| High Volt Intr Svc | 46 | Proposing to close | ||
| High Volt Gen Svc | 49 | 6.28% | 3.99% | 8.50% |
| Retail Wheeling | 448 - 459 | 4.73% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Special Contracts | SC | -12.49% | -2.04% | -3.06% |
| Area & Street Lighting | 03, 50-59 | 32.11% | 3.53% | 9.07% |
| Transportation Electrification | 558 | 31.56% | 3.48% | 8.93% |
Gas
| 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schedule | RY1 | FY2 | RY3 | |
| Residential | 23,53 | 13.32% | 3.04% | 3.47% |
| Residential Gas Lights | 16 | 13.64% | 4.00% | 4.73% |
| Commercial & Industrial | 31 | 16.84% | 3.62% | 4.13% |
| Large Volume | 41 | 10.71% | 2.57% | 2.95% |
| Interruptible | 85 | 7.17% | 1.71% | 2.06% |
| Limited Interruptible | 86 | 7.43% | 1.48% | 1.66% |
| Non-exclusive Interruptible | 87 | 6.56% | 1.81% | 1.68% |
| Commercial & Industrial Transportation | 31T | Proposing to close | ||
| Large Volume Transportation | 41T | 22.69% | 3.53% | 3.97% |
| Interruptible Transportation | 85T | 20.24% | 4.10% | 4.53% |
| Limited Interruptible Transportation | 86T | 15.36% | 5.37% | 4.85% |
| Non-exclusive Interruptible Transportation | 87T | 26.31% | 4.82% | 5.76% |
| Exclusive Interruptible Transportation | 88T | 16.50% | -6.08% | 0.00% |
| Contracts | - | 5.17% | 13.52% | 15.52% |
What is PSE doing to keep costs down?
We recognize the strain that higher bills put on families and local businesses and that our customers depend on us to provide an essential service. We take that seriously and recognize our responsibility to keep costs as low as possible.
We do that through:
- Managing our operating costs: PSE has lower operations expense per customer compared to utilities in the same region and of comparable size
- Spreading the costs of large capital projects across decades to reduce customer bill impacts
- Participating in wholesale energy markets to reduce power costs
- Expanding energy efficiency and programs that reduce system demand, offsetting the need to acquire power to serve our customers, especially when demand spikes and prices are high
Additionally, we look to leverage tax credits to lower costs. The rate plan includes $529 million in federal tax credits that will directly benefit customers by reducing costs of new generation projects. Due to changes in federal tax law, these credits are expiring, creating an urgency to complete projects quickly. In addition, customers will see a benefit of $246 million from tax credits on the recently completed Beaver Creek Wind Facility.
I’m struggling to pay my bill. What can I do?
We are here to help. We have programs to help customers save money and energy, and bill assistance for customers who are struggling to make ends meet.
Learn more and get started at pse.com/gethelp.
How can I learn more and get involved?
To view the full case documents and see opportunities for public comment, visit the UTC’s website.
