UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report: September 12, 2019
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
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Emerging growth company
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PG&E Corporation
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company
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Item 8.01 Other Events.
2019 Gas Transmission and Storage (“GT&S”) Rate Case
On September 12, 2019, the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”) approved a revised proposed decision (the “Decision”), originally revised on
August 15, 2019, in the 2019 GT&S rate case of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (the “Utility”), a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. The Decision reflects limited modifications to the proposed decision issued on July 16, 2019, described in
PG&E Corporation and the Utility’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2019.
By approving the Decision, the CPUC adopted a 2019 revenue requirement of $1.332 billion compared to the Utility’s (revised) request of $1.485 billion.
This corresponds to an increase of $31 million over the Utility’s 2018 authorized revenue requirement of $1.301 billion, compared to the $184 million increase requested by the Utility. The CPUC also adopted revenue requirements of $1.432 billion
for 2020, $1.516 billion for 2021, and $1.580 billion for 2022, compared to the Utility’s request of $1.595 billion for 2020, $1.693 billion for 2021, and $1.679 billion for 2022.
The revenue requirement amounts requested by the Utility and the revenue requirement amounts in the Decision are set forth in the following table:
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The Decision removed from rate base $304 million of pipeline replacement capital expenditures for the 2016-2018 period due to cost overruns. Incorporating
this reduction, the Decision adopted a rate base for 2019 of $4.46 billion, which corresponds to an increase of $0.75 billion over the 2018 adopted rate base of $3.71 billion. This is compared to the Utility’s rate base request of $4.75 billion for
2019. The Decision adopted a rate base of $4.98 billion for 2020, $5.37 billion for 2021, and $5.71 billion for 2022.
The rate base amounts also exclude approximately $576 million of capital spending subject to audit by the CPUC (related to 2011 through 2014 expenditures in
excess of amounts adopted in the 2011 GT&S rate case), pursuant to the 2015 GT&S rate case decision. The Utility is unable to predict whether the $576 million, or a portion thereof, will ultimately be approved by the CPUC and included in the
Utility’s future rate base.
The Decision adopted capital expenditures of $726 million for 2019, which corresponds to a decrease of $104 million over the Utility’s request of $830 million. The
Decision adopted a post-test year ratemaking joint stipulation proposed by the Utility and the Public Advocates Office (“Public Advocates”) of the California Public Utilities Commission (formerly known as Office of Ratepayer Advocates or ORA). The
joint stipulation results in adopted capital expenditures of $697 million in 2020, $597 million in 2021, and $570 million in 2022.
The Decision adopted the Utility’s proposed Natural Gas Storage Strategy, with minor modifications related to the decommissioning or sale of the Utility’s
Los Medanos and Pleasant Creek storage fields, and the Decision adopted a two-way balancing account for storage costs, which will be subject to a reasonableness review in the next GT&S rate case. The Decision retained a number of existing
memorandum accounts and one-way balancing accounts, including a one-way expense balancing account for transmission integrity management (TIMP), and adopted 19 new expense and capital one-way balancing and memorandum accounts.
The Decision also resolved the second phase of this proceeding, addressing the removal of officer compensation costs from the revenue requirement, which is
required by California Senate Bill 901. On this matter, the Decision adopted the joint stipulation offered by the Utility, Public Advocates and The Utility Reform Network that reduces the Utility’s requested 2019 GT&S operating expenses by
$1.428 million and capital expenditures by $0.455 million.
For more information about the 2019 GT&S rate case, see PG&E Corporation and the Utility’s joint Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2018 and their joint Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2019 and June 30, 2019.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned thereunto
duly authorized.
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PG&E CORPORATION
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By:
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/s/ LINDA Y.H. CHENG
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Dated: September 17, 2019
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LINDA Y.H. CHENG
Vice President, Corporate Governance and
Corporate Secretary |
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PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
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By:
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/s/ LINDA Y.H. CHENG
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Dated: September 17, 2019
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LINDA Y.H. CHENG
Vice President, Corporate Governance and
Corporate Secretary |
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