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Competitive Transition Charge. A "nonbypassable" charge generally placed on distribution services to recover utility costs incurred as a result of restructuring (stranded costs - usually associated with generation facilities and services) and not recoverable in other ways.
Competitive Transition Charge. A charge generally placed on distribution services to recover utility costs incurred as a result of restructuring (ie stranded investments) which cannot be recovered by other means.
Competitive Transition Charge. A charge applied to the bill of every customer accessing the transmission or distribution network. This charge is designed to recover an electric utilityâ€(tm)s transition or stranded costs as determined by the Commission.
Competitive Transition Charge. A charge that allows utilities to recover stranded costs. ( Back)
Competition Transition Charge. CTC is a charge itemized on customer bills to recover costs associated with utility investments in generation-related assets and state-mandated contracts with nonutility generators that may now be uneconomic and unrecoverable in the restructured electric utility industry. These costs had always been a part of SCE's rates, but were being recovered over a longer period of time and were not separately identified. AB1890 allows California's investor-owned utilities to recover these costs within an accelerated, four-year timeframe, which ends no later than March 31, 2002.
Competitive Transition Charge. A temporary charge on a customer’s bill designed to recover an electric utility’s stranded costs. Co-ops call this a fixed costs recovery charge.
Competition Transition Charge. as authorized by the CPUC, a charge allowing the collection of transition costs in a competitively-neutral manner that does not increase rates for any customer class solely due to the existence of transition costs. [Section 367, AB 1890
Competition Transition Charge. A fee that deregulated investor-owned utilities (IOUs) may charge consumers for up to 15 years to compensate them for expensive, above market-cost plants. For example, nuclear plants built before de regulation probably can't effectively compete with newer, cheaper plants. Co-op customers will not have this fee.
Competitive transition charge. A charge on an electric bill to recover a utility company’s fixed cost for serving individual customers.
Competitive Transition Charge. A charge imposed by a utility to assure recovery of the costs of investments in resources or other power contracts. Customers have always paid this charge as part of their normal rate. Customers choosing SVP, or another supplier, will continue to contribute to the payback of these investments. Collection of a CTC may be made under the authority of State Law or of a local regulatory body such as a City Council.