0001021635-11-000031.txt : 20110622 0001021635-11-000031.hdr.sgml : 20110622 20110622172308 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001021635-11-000031 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20110622 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20110622 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20110622 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: OGE ENERGY CORP. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001021635 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911] IRS NUMBER: 731481638 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OK FISCAL YEAR END: 0223 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12579 FILM NUMBER: 11926222 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 321 N HARVEY STREET 2: P.O. BOX 321 CITY: OKLAHOMA CITY STATE: OK ZIP: 73101-0321 BUSINESS PHONE: 4055533000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 321 N HARVEY STREET 2: P.O. BOX 321 CITY: OKLAHOMA CITY STATE: OK ZIP: 73101-0321 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: OGE ENERGY CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19960827 8-K 1 oge8k062211.htm OGE ENERGY CORP. 8-K oge8k062211.htm
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


Date of report (Date of earliest event reported)
June 17, 2011

   
OGE ENERGY CORP.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
   
Oklahoma
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
   
1-12579
73-1481638
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
   
321 North Harvey, P.O. Box 321, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
73101-0321
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
   
405-553-3000
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
   
   
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
   
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(17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))


 
 

 

Item 8.01.  Other Events

OGE Energy Corp. is the parent company of Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (“OG&E”), a regulated electric utility with approximately 785,000 customers in Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and OGE Enogex Holdings LLC and its subsidiaries, a midstream natural gas pipeline business with principal operations in Oklahoma.

Arkansas Rate Case Order

As previously disclosed, on September 28, 2010, OG&E filed a rate case with the Arkansas Public Service Commission (“APSC”) requesting a rate increase of $17.7 million, to recover the cost of significant electric system expansions and upgrades, including high-voltage transmission lines, that have been completed since the last rate filing in August 2008, as well as increased operating costs. OG&E also sought recovery, through a rider, of the Arkansas jurisdictional portion of (i) costs associated with transmission upgrades and facilities that have been approved by the Southwest Power Pool (“SPP”) in its regional planning processes and constructed by other non-OG&E transmission owners throughout the SPP that have been allocated to OG&E through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved transmission rates and (ii) SPP administrative fees.
 
On May 13, 2011, OG&E reached a settlement agreement with all the parties in the case.  On June 17, 2011, the APSC approved the settlement agreement and OG&E implemented new electric rates effective June 20, 2011.  A copy of the Company’s press release announcing the approval of the settlement agreement is attached as Exhibit 99.01 and incorporated herein by reference.  Also, a copy of the APSC order is attached as Exhibit 99.02 and incorporated herein by reference.  Key items of the APSC order include:

 
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The recovery of and a return on significant electric system expansions and upgrades, including high-voltage transmission lines, as well as increased operating costs, totaling $8.8 million annually;
 
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Authorization for OG&E to recover the actual cost of third-party transmission charges and SPP administrative fees through a rider mechanism which will remain in effect until new rates are implemented after OG&E’s next general rate case.  The Arkansas jurisdictional portion of the combined costs is expected to be approximately $1 million in 2011; and
 
 Ÿ
The deferral of certain expenses associated with a customer education program in an amount not to exceed $0.3 million per year for a maximum of two years.

2011 Oklahoma Rate Case Filing

As part of the Joint Stipulation and Settlement Agreement reached in OG&E’s 2009 Oklahoma rate case filing, the parties agreed that OG&E would file a rate case on or before June 30, 2011.  On May 27, 2011, OG&E requested an extension until the end of July 2011 for filing the Oklahoma rate case.

Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits

                   (d) Exhibits
   
     
                   Exhibit Number
 
Description
     
                        99.01
 
Press release dated June 20, 2011, announcing Arkansas Regulators Approve New Rates for OG&E effective June 20.
                        99.02
 
Copy of APSC Order dated June 17, 2011.


 
 

 

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


 
OGE ENERGY CORP.
 
 
(Registrant)
 
     
By:
/s/ Scott Forbes
 
 
Scott Forbes
 
 
                       Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
     




June 22, 2011
EX-99.01 2 exhibit9901.htm EXHIBIT 99.01 exhibit9901.htm
Exhibit 99.01

Arkansas Regulators Approve New Rates for OG&E effective June 20
OG&E Arkansas residential rates will remain well below the regional and national averages

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Public Service Commission has approved an order granting OG&E a general rate increase of $8.8 million, enabling the company to begin recovering the cost of significant electric system expansions and upgrades.

For a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month, the increase will be $2.32 per month. Even after new rates go into effect June 20, OG&E’s Arkansas residential rates will be 35 percent below the national average and 13 percent below the regional average, based on the most recent available data.

“Customers expect us to provide reliable service at a reasonable cost,” said Howard Motley, vice president of regulatory affairs for OG&E. “This increase will help ensure that we are able to continue to provide quality service at some of the lowest prices in the U.S. Today’s order, achieved through the unanimous agreement of all parties involved, recognizes the significant investments we’ve made in the reliability of our electric system for the benefit of our customers.”
 
Motley added that the rate order affirms the company’s investments in electric infrastructure including high-voltage transmission lines and wind energy. Such investments should help to hold costs down over the long term as OG&E seeks to avoid the cost of adding more fossil-fueled electric generation capacity until at least 2020.

“The 2020 goal includes implementing demand management initiatives, energy efficiency programs and smart grid technology, all of which are designed to manage peak demand and delay the need for the next power plant, providing significant savings for customers,” Motley said.

OG&E, a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: OGE), serves more than 785,000 electric customers in a service area spanning 30,000 square miles, including about 66,000 customers in western Arkansas. OGE Energy also is the parent company of OGE Enogex Holdings LLC, a midstream natural gas pipeline business with principal operations in Oklahoma.

EX-99.02 3 exhibit9902.htm EXHIBIT 99.02 exhibit9902.htm
Exhibit 99.02
 

 
ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
 
 
 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF  )  
 OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY FOR  )   DOCKET NO. 10-067-U
 APPROVAL OF A GENERAL CHANGE IN RATES  )  ORDER NO. 6
 AND TARIFFS  )  
 
ORDER
Background
On September 28, 2010, Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E) filed in the above-styled Docket its Application and supporting Direct Testimonies & Exhibits,1 which were supplemented and/or revised on October 7, 2010, asserting an annual revenue deficiency of $17,723,253 million and seeking approval of a rate increase in that amount. Application Schedule A-1. OG&E did not provide a revised revenue deficiency or requested rate increase amount through its rebuttal filing. If approved, OG&E’s Application would constitute an overall rate increase of approximately 10.5% in total rates. Direct Testimony of OG&E Witness Howard Motley at 1 (September 28, 2010).
OG&E is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma and is qualified to do business in the States of Oklahoma and Arkansas. It is an investor-owned electric utility company engaged in the business of generating, transmitting and distributing electrical power in the States of Oklahoma and Arkansas. OG&E has approximately 776,500 total customers, of which approximately 64,700 are located in Arkansas. It has additional wholesale customers throughout the region. OG&E’s
 
1 OG&E filed the Direct Testimonies & Exhibits of OG&E Witnesses Howard Motley; Sheri D. Richard; Donald R. Rowlett; Adam Bigknife; John Wendling; Keith Erickson; John J. Spanos; Donald A. Murry, Ph.D.; Greg Veitch; Bryan J. Scott and Gregory W. Tillman. OG&E also filed the Rebuttal Testimonies & Exhibits of OG&E Witnesses Eric Fox; Katherine Prewitt; Philip L. Crissup; Greg Veitch; Bryan Scott; Donald R. Rowlett (as corrected); John J. Spanos; Howard Motley (as corrected); Donald A. Murray; Kenneth C. Johnson
 
 
 

 
 
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electricity comes from eleven company-owned power plants, plus purchased power, and is delivered across an interconnected transmission and distribution system that spans 30,000 square miles. OG&E’s principal office is at 321 North Harvey, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102. The Company’s principal place of business in Arkansas is located at 219 Garrison Avenue, Fort Smith, Arkansas 72902. OG&E is a public utility as defined by Act 324 of 1935, as amended, which is codified at Ark. Code Ann. § 23-1-101, et seq., and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission. Application at 1-2.
According to Witness Motley, OG&E is seeking a rate increase at this time because:
Two large capital projects have been completed and placed in service since the test year in our last rate case.2 The OU Spirit renewable wind energy facility (OU Spirit) became commercial in December 2009 and the Windspeed transmission line was energized in April 2010. The total capital investment for both projects is approximately $475 million. ... In addition to the two large capital projects, the Company has also invested additional capital in its utility infrastructure. Considering all the capital investment since the last rate case and the depreciation offset, the Company’s net plant in service has increased $549.3 million. During this time, OG&E has also experienced increases in O&M expense. The primary increase in O&M expense is to extend the service life and reliability of the Company’s generation fleet. In 2010, OG&E plans to spend $14.7 million more on fleet maintenance than in the 2009 test year.
Id. at 4 (Footnote in original).
By Order No. 2, issued on October 12, 2010, the Arkansas Public Service Commission (Commission) suspended OG&E's proposed new rates, established a procedural schedule for the filing of testimony, set a public evidentiary hearing to consider OG&E’s Application to begin on May 24, 2011, in Little Rock, Arkansas, and set a public comment hearing to begin on May 31 2011, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Parties

 
2 Docket No. 08-103-U filed on August 29, 2008 (Test Year: 12 months ending December 31, 2007).

 
 

 
 
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to this proceeding are OG&E, Northwest Arkansas Industrial Energy Consumers (NWIEC),3 the Consumer Utilities Rate Advocacy Division of the Arkansas Attorney General's Office (AG), and the Commission General Staff (Staff) (the Parties).
Pursuant to the procedural schedule established by Order No. 2, Staff, the AG and NWIEC filed their Direct Testimonies & Exhibits4 on March 15, 2011, in response to OG&E’s Application and Direct Testimonies.
Staff, in its Direct Testimony, refuted OG&E’s claimed revenue deficiency of $17,723,253 annually and, based upon Staff’s fully developed Cost of Service Study (COS), recommended the Commission approve a revenue deficiency or rate increase for OG&E of $4,806,206, which is $12,917,047 less than that claimed by OG&E. Staff Witness Sandra B. Green Direct Testimony at 7 (March 15, 2011). The AG did not perform a COS. The AG, however, did address certain issues related to OG&E’s claimed revenue deficiency as well as the rates and tariffs proposed by OG&E. Although the AG’s “investigation does not involve the detailed accounting audit provided by the Staff” AG Witness William B. Marcus testified that “the AG’s analysis has identified at least $8.591 million in reductions from OG&E’s requested rate increase....” Marcus Direct Testimony at 6. NWIEC filed Direct Testimony recommending certain revenue requirement calculations and changes to certain of OG&E’s cost of service and allocation
 
3 NWIEC filed its Membership List on February 24, 2011, listing the following members: Gerdau MacSteel (which formally withdrew its Petition as an individual Intervenor on March 14, 2011); River Bend Industries; and Cloyes Gear & Products
4 Staff filed the Direct Testimonies & Exhibits of Staff Witnesses Clark D. Cotten; Cindy L. Ireland; Sandra B. Green; Bill Dennis; Robert H. Swaim; Jeff Hilton; Gayle Freier; J. Richard Hornby; Jo Ann Sterling; Regina L, Butler; and Rick Dunn. The AG filed the Direct Testimony & Exhibits of William B. Marcus. NWIEC filed Responsive Testimonies & Exhibits of Mark E. Garrett and Scott Norwood.
 
 
 

 
 
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methodologies. Direct Testimonies of NWIEC Witnesses Scott Norwood at 19-20 and Mark E. Garrett at 52.
In Surrebuttal Testimony, Staff and the AG amended their initial recommendations. NWIEC did not file Surrebuttal Testimony. Staff’s Surrebuttal revenue requirement calculation reflected updates to actual pro forma year-end data, corrections for errors, and amendments to certain initial adjustments that Staff made based on additional information. Staff’s Surrebuttal recommended revenue deficiency or rate increase was $8,840,362 which is $8,882,891 less than claimed by OG&E in its Application. Hilton Surrebuttal Testimony at 4. In Surrebuttal, the AG Witness Marcus continued to recommend his original $8.591 million reductions to OG&E’s requested rate increase, but also adopted certain positions of the other parties, increasing his proposed reductions by $179,000. Marcus Surrebuttal Testimony at 5. Specifically, AG Witness Marcus recommended adoption of Staff’s and NWIEC’s adjustments to coal inventory levels and reduced depreciation for the retired Muskogee Unit 3 plant, which reduced the deficiency for Arkansas by $149,000 and $30,000, respectively. Mr. Marcus also adopted Staff’s recommendation to include all Accumulated Deferred Income Taxes (ADIT) in the capital structure but did not quantify the revenue requirement effect of those proposals. Id.
On May 13, 2011, the Parties filed a Joint Motion to Approve Settlement Agreement (Joint Motion) that included Joint Exhibit 1, which was the proposed Settlement Agreement (Agreement) entered into by the Parties. Also filed on May 13, 2011, in support of the Agreement were the Agreement Testimonies of Mr. Motley on behalf of OG&E, Mr. Davis and Mr. Hilton on behalf of Staff, Mr. M. Shawn McMurray

 
 

 
 
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on behalf of the AG and Mr. Garrett on behalf of NWIEC. In their Joint Motion, the Parties requested “that an order be issued expeditiously excusing all witnesses...” from the evidentiary hearing except the settlement witnesses. Joint Motion at 5. The Agreement also noted that OG&E “requests, and the Settling Parties do not object, that the new rates become effective for bills rendered as soon as possible after a Commission order approving the Agreement but not later than for bills rendered on July 1, 2011[.]” Agreement at 7. On June 6, 2011, OG&E filed revised Compliance Tariffs to conform to the proposed Agreement. Thereafter, on June 7, 2011, Staff Witness Swaim filed Compliance Testimony testifying that the June 6, 2011 Compliance Tariffs accurately reflected the terms of the Agreement.
For good cause shown, the Commission issued Order No. 5 in this Docket on May 18, 2011, granting the Parties’ request to excuse all witnesses from the May 24, 2011 evidentiary hearing with the exception of Mr. Motley for OG&E, Mr. Garrett for NWIEC, Mr. McMurray for the AG, and Mr. Hilton and Mr. Davis for Staff.
As scheduled by Order No. 2 of this Docket, the evidentiary hearing was conducted by the Commission at its office in Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 24, 2011, and the public comment hearing was conducted by the Commission in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on May 31, 2011.
The Agreement
The Agreement, filed on May 13, 2011, and attached hereto as Exhibit 1, submitted jointly by OG&E, NWIEC, the AG and Staff, which were the only parties to this Docket, calls for a rate increase of $8,787,918 for OG&E with an overall cost of capital of 5.93% and an equity return of 9.95%. The Agreement-proposed rate increase

 
 

 
 
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is $8,935,335 less than originally requested by OG&E and $52,349 less than Staff recommended in its Surrebuttal case. The Agreement called for the following changes to Staff’s Surrebuttal revenue requirement: a reduction to revenue requirement of $10,290 for a correction to depreciation expense; an increase to revenue requirement of $99,083 for a change to Working Capital Assets; and a reduction to revenue requirement of $141,142 related to the change in the equity return. Agreement at 2-3.
The Agreement-proposed revenue requirement, cost of service (COS) allocation of that revenue requirement to rate class, and resulting design of rates, as well as individual tariff issues, all reflect as its basis Staff’s Surrebuttal case with some adjustments that are delineated in the Agreement. Agreement at 2. The revenue requirement differences represent either corrections or updates to Staff’s Surrebuttal case, which Staff advises in its Agreement Testimony are within the range of reasonableness.
The Agreement-proposed rates would cause a typical OG&E residential customer’s monthly bill, based on 1,000 kWh per month usage, to increase $2.32 per month, including fuel costs, or 3.17%.5 See Letter addressed to Jan Sanders, Secretary of the Commission, which was signed by Counsel for OG&E and filed in this Docket on May 26, 2011. A typical OG&E low-use General Service customer’s monthly bill, based on 2,000 kWh per month usage, would increase $0.32 per month, including fuel costs, or 0.22%. A typical OG&E high-use General Service customer’s bill, based on 7,000 kWh per month usage, would increase $18.37 per month, including fuel costs, or 4.15%. Id.






 
5 The percentage increase was corrected from 3.71% to 3.17% per Staff Witness Swaim’s Compliance Testimony at 3 (June 7, 2011).

 
 

 
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Following are the major points of the Agreement:
 
 
 ·
Staff’s rate base, as modified, and Staff’s statement of net operating income, as adjusted, will be used to determine OG&E’s overall revenue requirement;
 
 
 ·
An overall rate of return on rate base of 5.93% will be used to determine OG&E’s overall revenue requirement;
 
 
 ·
The overall Agreement non-fuel rate schedule revenue requirement, Arkansas jurisdiction, for OG&E will be $88,607,368, with a resulting revenue deficiency of $8,787,918;
 
 
 ·
The Agreement relies on Staff’s COS, which was developed using the allocation methods and factors embodied in Staff’s COS as well as the mitigation of customer impact proposed by Staff Witness Green’s Surrebuttal Testimony;
 
 
 ·
The billing determinants for the Arkansas jurisdiction will be those included in the Staff Witness Swaim’s Direct Exhibit RHS-1;
 
 
 ·
OG&E’s jurisdictional allocation factors will be based on OG&E’s billing determinants. Staff’s billing determinants will be used to calculate Arkansas’s rate class allocation and to design rates;
 
 
 ·
Staff’s depreciation rates, as proposed by Staff Witness Gayle Freier in her Surrebuttal Testimony, are adopted;
 
 
 ·
Consistent with Staff Witness Swaim’s Testimonies, the rate design changes reflected in the Agreement are as follows;
 
 
 1.
The General Service class customer charge will remain constant but the Residential class customer charge will increase at the system average increase level;
 
 2.
OG&E’s rate design will comply with Staff’s block design recommendations;
 
 3.
OG&E will offer both a demand-based and energy-based Time of Use (TOU) rates for its Power and Light (P&L) customers. Rate Schedules Service Levels (SL) SL-2, SL-3 and SL-4 will be recombined into a single PL-TOU Energy rate schedule. Rate Schedule SL-1 PL-TOU Energy will include a “super peak” period rate within the defined peak during the hours of 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm;
 
 4.
OG&E will offer Residential and General Service Time of Use rates, but will not include a senior citizen discount;
 
 

 
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 5.
OG&E will offer Residential and General Service Variable Peak Pricing rates, but will not include a senior citizen discount and customers will pay for incremental meter costs;
 
 6.
OG&E will not offer flat bill rates; and
 
 7.
OG&E will not offer a Customer Education and Demand Rider. OG&E may defer, for accounting purposes, the proposed expenses associated with the customer education program for an amount not to exceed $300,000 per year for a maximum of two years.
 
 
 ·
All OG&E tariffs and tariff provisions will follow Staff’s recommendations unless otherwise provided for within the Agreement and OG&E’s tariffs will not include a Customer Education and Demand Response (CEDR) Rider, a Pension and Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) Rider or a Storm Damage Cost Recovery Rider;
 
 
 ·
OG&E's Energy Cost Recovery Rider (ECRR) will be the one outlined in Staff Witness Butler’s Surrebuttal Testimony;
 
 
 ·
OG&E will have a new Transmission Cost Recovery Rider (TCRR) as outlined in Staff Witness Butler’s Surrebuttal Testimony;
 
 
 ·
OG&E will allow Day-Ahead Pricing (DAP) customers to participate in the Load Reduction (LR) Rider, provided that the terms of both tariffs are properly defined to prevent duplicate benefits for the reduction in load. Purchased power capacity costs related to the LR Rider may be temporarily recovered through Rider ECR until the next rate case. In the next rate case purchased power capacity costs related to the LR Rider will be incorporated in base rates;
 
 
 ·
OG&E may defer, for accounting purposes, customer education program expenses for an amount not to exceed $300,000 per year for two years and the deferred costs will be reviewed in OG&E’s next rate case;6 and
 

 


 

 
 
6 During the evidentiary hearing, in response to Commissioner questioning , OG&E Witness Motley testified that the program’s purpose was “strictly customer education about [OG&E’s] new programs, like the different time of use program[s], the different rate type of proposals,…” in order to help customers select the program that is appropriate for them and to encourage energy efficiency. May 24, 2011 Evidentiary Hearing Transcript (Tr.) 1016. According to Mr. Motley, the Agreement-proposed $300,000 “will be 100 percent use to educate [OG&E’s] customers only on [its] new proposed tariffs and programs.” Id. In addition, OG&E committed to bring its marketing and customer education team to “meet with all the parties in this case and go through where [OG&E is] going to spend those dollars before…” OG&E spends any of the allotted money on its education programs. Id. at 1016-1017. Given the Parties’ litigated positions on the customer education program, the Commission accepts the education spending proposal as part of the concessions made to reach the unanimous Agreement.  That said, the
 
 
 

 
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 ·
OG&E shall comply with the Allowance for Funds Used During Construction (AFUDC) recommendation reflected in the Surrebuttal Testimony of Staff Witness Jo Ann Sterling.
 
 
Agreement Testimony
OG&E Witness Motlev:
OG&E Witness Motley testified that OG&E “believes the Agreement is a reasonable compromise of the positions of the various parties or stakeholders” and that the Agreement “produces an equitable balance of customer and of shareholder interests.” Further, the “provisions of the Agreement lie within the bounds of the filed positions advocated by the various parties and the end result is just and reasonable.” Motley Agreement Testimony at 6. Viewed in its totality, Mr. Motley testified:
[T]he Agreement provides benefits for all classes of customers and is in the public interest. The result of the Agreement reached by the parties is within the range of likely outcomes if the issues in the proceeding were litigated. The Agreement is a carefully crafted compromise that produces rates that are just and reasonable and are in the public interest, without the need for additional expenditure of time or money by any party in the litigation process. OG&E believes the result reached in the Agreement fairly balances the needs of all stakeholders.
Id. at 6-7.
Finally, Mr. Motley testified that the Agreement “is a targeted balance in protection of customers, fairness to investors and maintaining OG&E’s long-term financial and operational viability. As in any good compromise, the end product does not result in attainment of all the results sought by any one party. ... [but OG&E] supports the Agreement as a reasonable compromise that is in the overall public interest and it is committed to adhere to the obligations pursuant to the Agreement.” Id.


 
Commission encourages OG&E to consider the potential for such energy efficiency education programs to be included as part of its energy efficiency filings in Docket No. 07-075-TF in the future. See Tr. 1017.
 

 
 

 
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Staff Witnesses Hilton and Davis:
Staff Witness Hilton testified that three adjustments were made to Staff’s Surrebuttal case but “[a]side from these adjustments, the agreed upon Revenue Requirement reflects Staff’s position in its Surrebuttal case.” Hilton Agreement Testimony at 3. The three adjustments were related to Staff’s depreciation expense, working capital assets, and the return on equity. Id. at 4-5.
Further, Mr. Hilton testified that the Agreement adopts Staff Witness Butler’s Surrebuttal recommendations regarding the ECRR as amended to incorporate her newly-recommended Transmission Cost Recovery Rider (TCRR), which will permit OG&E to recover charges paid to the Southwest Power Pool for transmission-related projects and service, a Day-Ahead Pricing (DAP) tariff and a Load Reduction Rider (LR Rider) to recover the costs of certain reporting requirements related to the DAP as well as amendments to the Uniform Municipal Tax Adjustment Rider (Rider MTA). Hilton Agreement Testimony at 4-7.
Mr. Hilton also notes that the Agreement does not include an OPEB tracker or storm damage cost rider, consistent with Staff’s recommendation in its Direct Testimony. Id. at 6. Mr. Hilton testifies that the Agreement adopts the depreciation rates as recommended by Staff in its Surrebuttal case and are attached to the Agreement as Attachment 2. Id. at 3. In addition, Mr. Hilton notes three recommendations made by Staff Witness Freier related to depreciation expense and accumulated depreciation which were incorporated into the Agreement and accepted by OG&E, specifically the:
 
 
 ·
Requirement that OG&E maintain depreciation expense and accumulated depreciation on an individual FERC account level, by plant and unit, and report in the same manner in future rate applications;

 
 

 
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 ·
Continuing obligation to adjust its accumulated depreciation to reflect Arkansas-approved depreciation rates, however, prospectively in accordance with the functional/FERC account/plant/unit allocation that Staff performed in this case; and
 
 
 ·
Requirement that OG&E fully explain any adjustment to per book amounts in its initial testimony or depreciation study, or include a workpaper that fully explains and supports the adjustment.
Id. at 6-7.
Finally, as noted previously, Mr. Hilton testified that the Agreement “has as its foundation each of the recommendations set forth in Staff’s Surrebuttal Case and supported by Staff Witnesses.” Id. at 7. Mr. Hilton “supports as reasonable each of the three adjustments which were made to the Revenue Requirement. Otherwise the Agreement reflects in its entirety the recommendations of Staff Witnesses on these issues as reflected in Staff’s Direct and Surrebuttal Testimonies,” Id. As a result, Mr. Hilton testifies that he “support[s] as reasonable these provisions of the Agreement and recommend[s] their approval.” Id.
Staff Witness Kim O. Davis testified that the Agreement “uses the cost classification and allocation methodologies embodied in Staff’s Surrebuttal COS Study as presented in Staff Surrebuttal Exhibit SBG-1 of Staff Witness Green.” Davis Agreement Testimony at 4. In addition, consistent with Staff Witness Green’s Surrebuttal Testimony, the customer impact is mitigated “for the different service levels within a class showing a surplus, the surplus should first be distributed in a fair manner to the other service levels above the system average within that class. Then, the revenue surplus resulting from the Lighting class shall be distributed in a fair manner among the classes/service levels requiring a larger-than-system-average increase.” Id. The resulting

 
 

 
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overall increase in rate schedule revenues is 11.01% and on “a total bill basis, including the cost of fuel, the system average increase is 5.28% with the Residential customer class receiving approximately an 8.41% base rate increase and a 4.61% total bill increase.” Id. at 5.
The Agreement also reflects the Parties’ agreement to design rates using the billing determinants recommended by Staff Witness Swaim in Direct Exhibit RHS-1 and relies on Staff’s rate design recommendations as follows:
 
 ·
The customer charge for the Residential class will increase by the system average increase; The customer charge for the General Service class will not change;
 
 
 ·
OG&E’s rate design will comply with Staff’s recommendations regarding block design;
 
 
 ·
OG&E will offer both demand-based and energy-based Power and Light-Time of Use (PL-TOU) rates. Rate schedules SL-2, SL-3 and SL-4 will be recombined into a single PL-TOU Energy rate schedule as is the case in the currently-approved tariff. Rate schedule SL-1 PL-TOU Energy will include a “super peak” period rate during the hours of 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm;
 
 
 ·
OG&E will offer Residential and General Service Time of Use rates, but will not offer a senior citizen discount;
 
 
 ·
OG&E will offer Residential and General Service Variable Peak Pricing rates, but will not offer a senior citizen discount and customers will pay for incremental meter costs;
 
 
 ·
OG&E will not offer flat bill rates; and
 
 
 ·
OG&E will not offer a CEDR but OG&E may defer, for accounting purposes, the proposed expenses associated with the customer education program for an amount not to exceed $300,000 per year for a maximum of two years. This amount should include only incremental charges, i.e., excluding salaries, postage or other costs already considered in base rates, and should only be for the purposes of educating or informing customers and without the accrual of carrying charges. The deferred costs will be reviewed in
 

 
 

 
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OG&E’s next retail rate case to ensure the costs reasonably meet the above requirements for future recovery.
Id. at 5-7.
Mr. Davis notes that Section 4 of the Agreement “reflects that OG&E requests, and the Settling Parties do not object, that the new rates become effective for bills rendered as soon as possible after a Commission order approving the Agreement but not later than for bills rendered on July 1, 2011.” Id. at 7. In addition, Mr. Davis states OG&E will file compliance tariffs consistent with the Agreement on or before June 7, 2011, followed by Staff’s Compliance Testimony on or before June 8, 2011. Id.
Mr. Davis testifies he supports as reasonable these provisions of the Agreement and recommends their approval because he believes the Agreement “produces reasonable rates that mitigate adverse rate impact to the customer classes and that are supported by Staff’s Direct and Surrebuttal Testimonies.” Id.
AG Witness McMurray:
AG Witness McMurray first noted that:
OG&E requested an overall rate increase of approximately $17.7 million, including $5.7 million from residential customers, plus several riders, one of which would increase ratepayer bills by more than $875,000 per year. This included a recommended return on equity of 11.25%, and an increase in the residential customer charge from $7.15 to $15.50, and in the General Service class’s customer charge from $21.75 to $32.00.
 
McMurray Agreement Testimony at 3. Mr. McMurray testified that the AG’s office:
 
Opposed OG&E’s requested increase, based on (1) substantially lowering the return on equity to 9.6% and adjusting the hypothetical capital structure; and (2) rejecting certain inappropriate expenses, especially involving executive compensation, advertising and dues and donations. The AG also recommended changes in rate design to encourage conservation, and to avoid undue negative impact on lower-income customers and subsidization of electric heat. “We particularly opposed the drastic increase in the monthly residential and commercial customer

 
 

 
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charge.
Id. at 3. Additionally, the AG opposed many of the new riders OG&E proposed, specifically the CEDR Rider. Id. at 4. Noting the AG had concerns with “the overall rate increase requested by OG&E...,” Mr. McMurray testified that the Agreement addresses the AG’s major concerns in the following ways:
 
 ·
It reduces the overall rate increase to OG&E’s customers to $8.8 million - $8.9 million less than originally requested (lowering the increase by 50.3%);
 
 
 ·
It reduces the increase in rates for the residential class of customers to $2.4 million - $3.3 million less than originally requested (lowering the increase by 57.9%);
 
 
 ·
The authorized return on equity will be 9.95% - far lower than the requested 11.25% (and between the AG’s recommended 9.6% and Staff’s recommended 10.0%) - and the hypothetical capital structure is 46% equity, as recommended by Staff;
 
 
 ·
On cost allocation, the Agreement does not materially change cost allocation methodologies recommended by the AG, but does mitigate the impact on larger customers in conformity with accepted Commission practice, which is important given economic development concerns;
 
 
 ·
The residential customer’s monthly service charge is increased by only 11% (the system average percentage increase), from $7.15 to $7.94, instead of the requested 117% increase to $15.50;
 
 
 ·
The General Service customer’s monthly service charge remains unchanged, instead of increasing it 47% to $32.00, as requested;
 
 
 ·
The Rider CEDR is rejected, as is the requested $875,000 budget and program for education and evaluation. Instead, OG&E may defer, for accounting purposes, the proposed expenses associated with the customer education program - but capped at $300,000 per year - for a maximum of two years. Furthermore, this amount may only include incremental charges, (i.e., excluding salaries, postage or other costs already considered in base rates), may only be for the purposes of educating or informing customers (e.g., no image advertising) and cannot accrue carrying charges. Furthermore, review of the costs of customer education and the

 
 

 
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determination of appropriateness for recovery will be considered in OG&E’s next retail rate case; and
 
 
 ·
Finally, in rate design, the Agreement provides a moderately lower flat winter rate, and in summer rates moves in the direction of more cost-based and conservation-friendly rates, but at the same time minimizing customer impacts.
Id. at 4-5.
As a result, Mr. McMurray stated the Agreement “addresses the concerns of the Attorney General in this docket in a reasonable way. The Agreement is far better for ratepayers than OG&E’s initial proposal.” Id. at 4. In addition, the AG’s office recommended the Agreement “be approved by the Commission, as being in the public interest.” Id. at 3.
NWIEC Witness Garrett:
According to NWIEC Witness Garrett, the Agreement “addresses and satisfactorily resolves certain of the issues raised by NWIEC.” Garrett Agreement Testimony at 1. Mr. Garrett states the Agreement “provides that OG&E will offer a new energy-based Power and Light Time of Use Rate for those customers that elect to take service under this Tariff. This will have a positive impact on those customers who are able to shift load away from higher priced peak hours. This shift in load will also benefit OG&E’s entire system.” Id. at 2. Mr. Garrett notes the inclusion of a “Super Peak” period within the defined peak from 4:00-6:00 pm daily and he asserts establishing such a “Super Peak” provides “a strong incentive for OG&E’s largest customers to shift load off of the peak hours, the most costly hours on the system.” Id. at 2-3. Mr. Garrett notes this benefits customers and OG&E alike by avoiding higher fuel costs and delaying investments in planned plant additions. Id. at 3. In conclusion, Mr. Garrett states the

 
 

 
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Agreement “provides for an overall fair and equitable resolution of the issues raised in this proceeding and is justified by the testimony filed in support thereof.” Id.
Commission Findings
Overall Rate Increase/Revenue Requirement:
Based on the evidence submitted by OG&E, NWIEC, the AG and Staff and through their Testimonies and Exhibits, prior to the initiation of settlement discussions, the Commission finds that OG&E is entitled to a rate increase in this proceeding. If uncontested, the Direct Case evidence submitted by OG&E would support a rate increase of $17,723,253; if uncontested, the Direct Case evidence submitted by the AG’s Witness would support a rate increase of no more than $9,132,309, which after Surrebuttal, would have reduced that increase by another $179,000;7 and if uncontested, the Direct Case evidence submitted by Staff would support a rate increase of $4,806,206, compared to $8,840,362 in Staff’s Surrebuttal case. The Agreement calls for a revenue increase in the amount of $8,787,918. The following Table 1 reflects the litigated Adjusted Rate Base (ARB), Return on Equity (ROE), overall Rate of Return (ROR), Debt-to-Equity ratio (D/E), non-fuel Rate Schedule Revenue Requirement (RR) and Revenue Deficiency (RD) positions of the parties and the resolution of these issues as reflected in the Agreement.













 
7 AG Witness Marcus’ adoption of Staff’s and NWIEC’s adjustment to coal inventory levels and the Staff reduction to depreciation expense for the retired Muskogee Unit 3 plant reduces the deficiency by $149,000 and $30,000, respectively. Marcus Surrebuttal Testimony at 5.

 
 

 
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Table l
Parties’ Proposals for Overall Rate Increase/Revenue Requirement
 
OG&E’s
Initial Case8
Staff’s
Surrebuttal Case
AG’s
Direct Case9
Agreement
ARB
$443,875,276
$422,652,614
$443,839,401
$428,864,662
ROE
11.25%
10.0%
9.60%
9.95%
ROR
6.61%
5.95%
5.81%
5.93%
D/E
43% to 57%
54% to 46%
53% to 47%
54% to 46%
RR
$99,789,093
$88,659,813
$91,198,149
$88,607,368
RD
$17,723,253
$8,840,362
$9,132,309
$8,787,918
Staff Witness Hilton testified that three adjustments were made to Staff’s Surrebuttal positions as a result of the Agreement, but otherwise “the agreed upon Revenue Requirement reflects Staff’s position in its Surrebuttal case.” Hilton Agreement Testimony at 3. Further, the AG, who “is charged by statute10 with representing the interests of Arkansas ratepayers” supported the Agreement “as being in the public interest.” McMurray Agreement Testimony at 3. Similarly, OG&E Witness Motley testified that “OG&E supports the Agreement as a reasonable compromise that is in the overall public interest...” Motley Agreement Testimony at 7. Finally, NWIEC Witness Garrett concurs that the Agreement “provides for an overall fair and equitable resolution of the issues raised in this proceeding...” Garrett Agreement Testimony at 3.
Based on the pre-filed Direct, Rebuttal and Surrebuttal Testimonies & Exhibits of OG&E, NWIEC, the AG and Staff, and the Agreement Testimonies of Staff Witnesses Hilton and Davis, AG Witness McMurray, OG&E Witness Motley and NWIEC Witness
 



8 OG&E did not provide an amended Revenue Requirement and Deficiency calculation incorporating the changes it proposed in its Rebuttal Testimony.
9 AG Witness Marcus testifies that his proffered revenue requirement calculation “does not constitute a complete case on revenue requirements.” Marcus Direct Testimony at 6-7. The AG did not provide a comprehensive recalculation of Revenue Requirement and Deficiency updated to reflect his Surrebuttal position.
10 Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-301, et seq.

 
 

 
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Garrett, the Commission finds that the Agreement-proposed rate increase of $8,787,918 is supported by substantial evidence and is just and reasonable.
Allocated Cost of Service:
The following Table 2 reflects the percentage non-fuel base rate increases for each of the various customer classes which would have resulted from the litigated Cost of Service positions of the Parties. Table 2 also reflects the unmitigated and mitigated rate increase resulting from the Agreement.

Table 2
Rate Impact – Percentage Increase (Decrease) By Customer Class
 
Litigated Case
Agreement Case
Customer Class
OG&E’s
Initial
Staff’s
Surrebuttal
Unmitigated
Agreement
Mitigated
Agreement
Total
$17,723,253
$8,840,362
$8,787,918
$8,787,918
Residential
19.44
8.50
8.41
8.41
General Service
18.94
6.15
6.06
6.06
Power & Light (P&L)
24.74
13.31
13.25
12.54
P&L Time-of-Use
26.65
18.92
18.90
17.29
Lighting
(5.16)
(14.79)
(14.91)
0.00
Municipal Pumping
26.30
18.51
18.39
16.56
Athletic Field Lighting
32.25
10.42
10.29
10.29
    Total % Retail
21.60%
11.08%
11.01%
11.01%
Staff Witness Davis testifies that the Agreement adopts Staff’s allocation methods and factors in the calculation of the COS Study and, consistent with Staff’s Surrebuttal position “to mitigate customer impact, ... the revenue surplus resulting from the Lighting class shall be distributed in a fair manner among the classes/service levels requiring a larger-than-system-average increase.” Davis Agreement Testimony at 4. Mr. Davis testifies that OG&E’s increase for total bills, including fuel, will be 5.28%, with mitigated total bill increases by customer class as follows: Residential-4.61%; General Service-3.36%; Power & Light (P&L) -5.73%; P&L Time-Of-Use-6.60%; Lighting-0.00%; Municipal Pumping-8.96%; and Athletic Field Lighting-6.15%. Id. at 5.

 
 

 
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AG Witness McMurray testifies that “the Agreement does not materially change cost allocation methodologies recommended by the AG, but does mitigate the impact on larger customers in conformity with accepted Commission practice, which is important given economic development concerns.” McMurray Agreement Testimony at 5. Similarly, NWIEC Witness Garrett supports the Agreement even though NWIEC’s “recommendations regarding class cost of service allocation issues were not incorporated into the Settlement...” because other NWIEC recommendations were addressed by the Agreement. Garrett Agreement Testimony at 1.
The Commission, therefore, finds that the Cost of Service Study methodology and allocations and the resultant mitigated rate increases to each class contained within the Agreement are just and reasonable and are approved.
Rate Design:
The following Table 3 reflects the resulting increases to the fixed monthly Customer Charge by rate class.

Table 3
Proposed Monthly Customer Charge By Customer Class
Class
Current
OG&E
Proposed
Agreement
Mitigated
Residential
$7.15
$15.50
$7.94
General Service
$21.75
$32.00
$21.75
P&L and P&L TOU-SL-111
$300.00
$500.00
$450.00
P&L and P&L TOU-SL-2,312
$225.00
$300.00
$225.00
P&L and P&L TOU-SL-413
$225.00
$85.00
$225.00
P&L and P&L TOU-SL-5
$75.00
$85.00
$85.00
Municipal Pumping
$28.00
$32.00
$28.0014

11 The Power & Light Time of Use Service Level (P&L TOU SL) Rate Schedules include an Energy (E) and Demand (D) class, but the customer charges will be the same for each.
12 Rate schedules Service Level-2, 3 and 4 will be recombined into a single PL-TOU Energy rate schedule under the Agreement.
13 Id.
14“This rate schedule is closed and is only available to a premise served under this rate schedule as of the December 2011 billing cycle.” Rate Schedule PM-1.

 
 

 
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OG&E’s Compliance Tariffs (June 6, 2011).
Staff Witness Davis testified that the agreed-upon rate design follows the recommendations set forth in the pre-Agreement Testimonies of Staff Witness Swaim, using Mr. Swaim’s recommended Arkansas billing determinants. Davis Agreement Testimony at 5. In recent orders in furtherance of the Commission’s Energy Efficiency (EE) initiatives, the Commission has promoted EE through rate design by directing several utilities to adopt an inclining block rate design structure. The Commission finds that the inclining block rate design proposed in this Docket represents progress toward the Commission’s EE goals. Mr. Davis further testified that the Agreement “produces reasonable rates that mitigate adverse rate impacts to the customer classes....” Id. at 7.
AG Witness McMurray testified that the Agreement “addresses the concerns of the Attorney General ... in a reasonable way...” in light of the AG’s “recommended changes in rate design to encourage conservation, and to avoid undue negative impact on lower-income customers and subsidization of electric heat.” McMurray Agreement Testimony at 3-4. Mr. McMurray also testified that the AG opposed the drastic increases in the customer charges OG&E proposed, and the Agreement-which minimizes or holds constant customer charges-is “in the public interest.” Id.
As a result, the Commission finds that the rate design and resulting rates are just and reasonable and are approved.
Tariffs and Tariff Provisions:
Transmission Cost Recovery Rider (TCRR)
In July 2009, the Commission initiated Docket No. 09-074-U to consider the appropriate rate treatment of regionally-allocated transmission costs charged to

 
 

 
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Southwest Power Pool Regional Transmission Organization (SPP RTO) members, of which OG&E is one. The Commission found as a general principle that retail rate recovery of transmission costs through a rider mechanism is in the public interest so long as it is designed to fairly balance the interests of SPP members and their customers. Docket No. 09-074-U, Order No. 6 at 22 (August 5, 2010). In addition the Commission provided additional guidance with regard to that balancing of interests stating:
 
Such a rider is fairly balanced if it allows Arkansas’s jurisdictional SPP members to timely recover their transmission costs while ensuring that their customers in return receive the benefits of RTO membership through a transmission rider, the energy cost recovery rider, or similar mechanism.
Id. at 24-25.
Based on the evidence presented in that Docket, the Commission concluded once an Arkansas utility becomes a member of the SPP RTO, the management of the utility has significantly less control over transmission cost levels because planning and construction are determined on a regional basis. The Commission also cited the fact that:
 
Such an approach is one of the fundamental reasons for the creation of RTOs, The result is that ratepayers, including Arkansas ratepayers, have access to lower cost generation resources while maintaining all jurisdictionally-mandated reliability standards.
Id. at 21-22.
Recently, the Commission found just and reasonable and in the public interest a Transmission Cost Recovery Rider (TCRR) as recommended by Staff for the Empire District Electric Company and as incorporated into a Settlement Agreement proposed by the Parties to that Docket, which was Empire’s most recent rate case. Docket No. 10-052-U, Order No. 7 at 23 (April 12, 2011). The provisions of that Staff-recommended

 
 

 
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TCRR were “designed to: (1) recover the actual amount of SPP charges paid by Empire for the costs included in SPP Schedule lA Administrative Service and SPP Schedule 11 -Base Plan Charges; (2) include the benefits of incremental revenues received by the Company from SPP for point-to-point transmission service; (3) include the benefits of incremental revenues received by the Company from off-system or EIS market sales; and (4) eliminate a rate of return.” Id. at 22.
By its Application in this Docket, OG&E proposed its Southwest Power Pool Cost Recovery Rider (SPPCR) as a modification to “the manner in which it recovers a portion of its transmission costs from Arkansas retail customers.” OG&E Witness Rowlett Direct Testimony at 17. Witness Rowlett testified that OG&E recommends this change as a result of the effect of SPP’s currently-approved methodology for the allocation of regionally-beneficial transmission project costs to SPP members, including OG&E. That cost allocation methodology was developed “with input and guidance from state regulatory commissions through the SPP’s Regional State Committee (RSC)....” Rowlett Direct Testimony at 17. The Commission is a member of the SPP RSC.
Under that methodology, OG&E will be responsible to SPP for its allocated share of regional costs for certain projects built by other members as well as have the right to revenues for certain of its own investments included as part of the regional rate. Under its SPPCR, OG&E proposed (1) the recovery of those regional costs from ratepayers and (2) the return of those regional revenues to ratepayers. Additionally, OG&E requested recovery of SPP administrative charges. Rowlett Direct Testimony at 17-18. Mr. Rowlett testified that both the SPP regional transmission costs as well as the SPP administrative charges “are not only significant but are also outside OG&E’s control... [and w]ithout a
 
 

 
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rider, cost increases occurring between rate cases would be lost and not recoverable.” Id. at 20.
Staff Witness Butler responded to OG&E’s proposed tariff and testified that she agreed:
with the Company’s proposal to recover the SPP administrative fees billed in SPP Schedule lA and the base plan charges related to others billed in SPP Schedule 11. Recovery of regionally-allocated costs is consistent with the Commission’s Order No. 6 in Docket No. 09-074-U, and the development of the Day Two Market is expected to provide benefits to ratepayers through reduced energy costs.... [however]... [t]o fully capture the benefits of RTO membership, ratepayers should be protected from any downside risk of revenues credited to customers being less than the test year level. Thus, the amount of point-to-point transmission revenues credited to customers through the rider should be a minimum of the test year Arkansas jurisdictional level of $830,171 plus any revenues above the test year amount.
Butler Direct Testimony at 8.
Further, because the rider will provide timely recovery of the SPP transmission and administrative costs, Ms. Butler concluded that application of a carrying charge is not appropriate. Id. at 9. Ms. Butler recommended:
that the Commission approve [her] proposed Transmission Cost Recovery Rider (TCR Rider) included as Direct Exhibit RLB-1. [She] recommend[ed] that the TCR Rider be designed to: (1) recover the actual amount of SPP charges paid by OG&E for the costs included in SPP Schedule lA, Tariff Administration Service, and SPP Schedule 11, Base Plan Charges paid to others; (2) include the benefits of revenues received by the Company from SPP for point-to-point transmission service at a minimum of the test year amount and any revenues in excess of the test year level; and (3) eliminate carrying costs.
Id. at 10.
In rebuttal to Ms. Butler’s recommendation to set a minimum revenue level in the Staff-proposed tariff, OG&E Witness Rowlett testifies that “Staff’s proposal has undone the ‘balance of interests’ recognized as appropriate by the Commission ... [and

 
 

 
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that]... [t]he Commission should reject the establishment of minimum levels of revenue credits in the SPPCR....” Rowlett Rebuttal Testimony at 10-11. Mr. Rowlett also testified that the tariff demand allocation factor required adjustment for OG&E’s wholesale customers, which are already billed for these charges. Id. at 11
In her Surrebuttal Testimony, Ms. Butler continued to support the “foundational elements” of her originally-proposed TCRR that she corrected for the demand allocation factor addressed by Mr. Rowlett and updated to reflect actual test year transmission revenues. Butler Surrebuttal Testimony at 5-6. She recommended
 
that the Commission approve [her] updated TCR Rider attached as Surrebuttal Exhibit RLB-1, which reflects the update to the minimum level of point-to-point transmission revenues and the revised definition for the transmission allocator.
Id, at 7.
In his Agreement Testimony, OG&E Witness Motley testified that the Parties agree to the implementation of a Transmission Cost Recovery Rider as set forth in Staff Witness Butler’s Surrebuttal Exhibit RLB-1. Motley Agreement Testimony at 5. Staff Witness Hilton testified that “[t]he recommended TCR Rider ... is designed to recover Southwest Power Pool (SPP) charges paid by OG&E included in SPP Schedule lA, Tariff Administration Service, and SPP Schedule 11, Base Plan Charges paid to others, and include the benefits of revenues received by the Company from SPP for point-to-point transmission service at a minimum of the pro forma year amount plus any revenues in excess of the pro forma year level.” Hilton Agreement Testimony at 5. Mr. Hilton testified further that, “[a]s noted in Staff Witness Butler’s Surrebuttal Testimony, the foundational elements of Staff s recommendations are consistent with those approved in Docket No. 10-052-U (Commission Order No. 7) for a similar rider for The Empire

 
 

 
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District Electric Company.” Id. at 5. 
Energy Cost Recovery Rider (ECRR)
In its Application, OG&E sought changes to its ECRR by which it proposed to:
 
 
 ·
Incorporate time-differentiated ECRR factors for Time Of Use service customers;
 
 
 ·
Exclude from the ECRR wind energy purchased or produced by OG&E, absent Commission approval of the related purchase contracts or OG&E-owned wind facilities;
 
 
 ·
Include a provision for uncollectible account costs as part of the ECRR; and
 
 
 ·
Include a provision for the pass-through of carbon taxes or other costs of future legislation.
Rowlett Direct Testimony at 26.
Staff Witness Butler recommended approval of OG&E’s requested incorporation of time-differentiated ECRR factors for Time of Use service customers into the tariff as appropriate.  Butler Direct Testimony at 13. Ms. Butler further recommended that OG&E seek cost recovery of wind energy through the Arkansas Clean Energy Development Act, which allows for Commission review and approval prior to recovery, and that the ECRR be revised to state that recovery of energy costs associated with wind energy Purchased Power Agreements (PPAs) must be approved by the Commission prior to ECRR recovery. Id. at 14-15. Ms. Butler also recommended that OG&E provide an additional report addressing fuel and purchased energy issues with its annual ECRR filing. Id. at 17.
Addressing OG&E’s proposal to include provisions for the recovery of uncollectible customer account costs and carbon taxes, and other costs of legislation in the ECRR, Ms. Butler testified that inclusion of these provisions is neither necessary nor

 
 

 
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appropriate. Id. at 14-17. In addition, Ms. Butler recommended that “the current benefits of off-system and Energy Imbalance Service (EIS) market sales credited to ratepayers through the ECR Rider should be a minimum of the test year Arkansas jurisdictional level ... plus any revenues in excess of the test year amount.” Id. at 9. Finally, Ms. Butler proposed new reporting requirements related to fuel and purchased energy costs to be included with OG&E’s annual ECR Rider filing. Id. at 17-18. Staff Witness Butler provided as Direct Exhibit RLB-1 her recommended ECRR for Commission approval. Id. at 18.
In Rebuttal, OG&E Witness Rowlett recommended, in conjunction with his recommendation made for the TCRR, rejection of Staff’s proposal to set a minimum test-year level of off-system sales and EIS market sales revenues within the ECRR, testifying that “[t]he Commission should reject the establishment of minimum levels of revenue credits in the... ECR rider[].” Rowlett Rebuttal Testimony at 11.
Staff Witness Butler, in Surrebuttal Testimony, continued to support her proposed provisions for the ECRR, recommending that the Commission approve her “updated ECR Rider, attached as Surrebuttal Exhibit RLB-2, which reflects the update to the minimum level of off-system and EIS market sales revenues ... [and] ... that the currently effective ECR Rider rates be updated to reflect the transfer of the collection of the point-to-point transmission revenues to the TCR Rider,” Butler Surrebuttal at 7.
Staff Witness Hilton, in his Agreement Testimony, testified that Section 315 of the Agreement is consistent with “the Surrebuttal Testimony and Exhibits of Regina L. Butler… [and that]... Rider ECR was included as Surrebuttal Exhibit RLB-2 and reflects



 
15 Section 3 of the Agreement, styled Cost Allocation And Rate Design, also addresses certain other Tariffs and Tariff Provisions agreed upon by the Parties.

 
 

 
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changes due to the recommended implementation of Rider TCR. In addition, it provides for time-differentiated ECR factors for customers on time-of-use rates, language stating that recovery of energy costs associated with wind energy PPAs must be approved by the Commission prior to recovery through the Rider ECR, and certain reporting requirements.” Hilton Agreement Testimony at 4-5. Mr. Hilton concludes that “the Agreement reflects in its entirety the recommendations of Staff witnesses on these issues as reflected in Staff’s Direct and Surrebuttal Testimonies ...” thus, he supports "as reasonable these provisions of the Agreement and recommend[s] their approval." Id. at 7.
The Commission finds that the TCRR proposed in the Agreement is supported by the record and is both consistent with the Commission’s requirement as set out in Docket No. 09-074-U that such a rider balance the interests of both the utility and its ratepayers and with its approval of the TCRR in Docket No. 10-052-U. In addition, the Commission finds that the ECRR, as well as the other tariffs and tariff provisions proposed in the Agreement, are supported by the filed Testimonies and Exhibits included in the record.
As a result, the Commission finds that the tariffs and tariff provisions as proposed by the Agreement are just and reasonable and they are approved.
Ruling of the Commission
1. Based on the Direct, Rebuttal and Surrebuttal Testimonies & Exhibits, the Agreement and Agreement Testimonies & Exhibits filed in this proceeding by OG&E, NWIEC, the AG and Staff, the Commission finds that the Agreement, in its totality, is

 
 

 
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supported by substantial evidence and is just, reasonable and in the public interest. Accordingly, the Agreement is approved; and
2.  Based on Staff Witness Swaim’s Compliance Testimony filed on June 7, 2011, the Commission finds that OG&E’s June 6, 2011 Compliance Tariffs comply with the Agreement’s provisions and, therefore, are approved effective for all customer bills rendered after the date of this Order.
 
 
BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION,
This 17th day of June, 2011.

 

 
   
/s/ Colette D. Honorable
 
   
        Colette D. Honorable, Chairman
     
   
/s/ Olan W. Reeves
 
   
        Olan W. Reeves, Commissioner
       
   
/s/ Elana C. Wills
 
   
        Elana C. Wills, Commissioner
     
/s/ K. Rhude (Acting)
     
     Jan Sanders
     
     Secretary of the Commission
     
     
       
 
 
 
 

 

 
BEFORE THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION


 
 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION    )    
 OF OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC    )    DOCKET NO. 10-067-U
 COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF A GENERAL    )    
 CHANGE IN RATES AND TARIFFS    )    
 
JOINT MOTION TO APPROVE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
 
Come now the General Staff of the Arkansas Public Service Commission (Staff), Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OG&E), the Consumer Utilities Rate Advocacy Division of the Arkansas Attorney General's Office (AG), and Northwest Arkansas Industrial Energy Consumers (NWIEC), hereinafter collectively referred to as “the Settling Parties” and being all the parties to the above-referenced Docket, and for their Joint Motion to Approve Settlement Agreement (Joint Motion) state as follows:
 
1.   The Settling Parties have reached agreement on the issues outstanding in Docket No. 10-067-U.  This Settlement Agreement (Agreement) is set forth in and attached hereto as Joint Exhibit.  By this Joint Motion, the Settling Parties are requesting that the Arkansas Public Service Commission (Commission) approve the Agreement.  The Agreement, inter alia, resolves all issues, including revenue requirement, and provides for the subsequent filing of compliance tariffs to effectuate this Agreement as soon as possible, but no later than June 7, 2011.
 
2.   As support for the Agreement and concurrent with the filing of this Joint Motion, the following witnesses are sponsoring Settlement Agreement Testimonies:
 
Howard Motley for OG&E
 
Jeff Hilton and Kim O. Davis for Staff
 
 

 
Shawn McMurray for the AG
 
Mark Garrett for NWIEC
 
3.   The Settling Parties state that the timing of this filing is consistent with the provisions of Order No. 2 in this Docket which required “Any settlement agreement along with supporting testimonies and exhibits shall be filed no later than ten (10) days before the scheduled evidentiary hearing, which in this case makes the filing due on or before May 13, 2011”.
 
4.   The Settling Parties recommend that the current procedural schedule should remain in effect so that the Agreement can be considered at the evidentiary hearing which is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 24, 2011, in Commission Hearing Room No. 1, Arkansas Public Service Commission Building, 1000 Center Street, Little Rock, Arkansas, for the purpose of considering the merits of the Agreement, taking opening statements, and receiving testimony and public comments.  The date and time scheduled for the area public hearing in Fort Smith, Arkansas at 6:00 p.m. on May 31, 2011, at the offices of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission located at 3309 Phoenix Avenue, should likewise remain the same.
 
5.   The Settling Parties request that on or before Friday, May 20, 2011, an order be issued excusing all witnesses from appearing at the evidentiary hearing except those listed in Paragraph No. 2 above, who are supporting the Agreement.
 
WHEREFORE, the Settling Parties hereby request that the Commission enter an order on or before Friday, May 20, 2011 excusing all witnesses with the exceptions
 
 

 
found in Paragraph No. 2 of this Joint Motion, approve the Settlement Agreement attached hereto, and grant them all other necessary and proper relief.
 
Respectfully submitted,
 
GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARKANSAS
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

By:           /s/Kevin M. Lemley
    Staff Attorney
    Cynthia Uhrynowycz
    Staff Attorney
    1000 Center Street
    P.O. Box 400
    Little Rock, AR  72203-0400
    (501) 682-5878

OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO.

By:           /s/Lawrence E. Chisenhall, Jr.
    Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian
    2840 Regions Center
    400 W. Capitol Avenue
    Little Rock, AR  72201
    (501) 372-5800

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ARKANSAS

By:           /s/M. Shawn McMurray
    Senior Asst. Attorney General
    Emon Mahony
    Asst. Attorney General
    323 Center Street, Suite 200
    Little Rock, AR  72201
    (501) 682-1053

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL
ENERGY CONSUMERS

By:           /s/Thomas P. Schroedter
    Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable,
    Golden & Nelson, P.C.
    320 S. Boston Avenue, Suite 400
    Tulsa, OK  74103-3708
    (918) 594-0436

 
 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, Kevin M. Lemley, hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing has been served on all parties of record by electronic mail this _13th_ day of May, 2011.


 
          /s/Kevin M. Lemley


 
 

 
JOINT EXHIBIT
 
BEFORE THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
 
 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION    )    
 OF OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC    )    DOCKET NO. 10-067-U
 COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF A GENERAL    )    
 CHANGE IN RATES AND TARIFFS    )    
 
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
 
Come now the General Staff of the Arkansas Public Service Commission (Staff), Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OG&E), the Consumer Utilities Rate Advocacy Division of the Arkansas Attorney General's Office (AG), and Northwest Arkansas Industrial Energy Consumers (NWIEC), hereinafter collectively referred to as “the Settling Parties” and being all the parties to the above-referenced Docket, agree to the following terms in settlement of all outstanding issues in the above-referenced Docket.
 
1.        PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE AND RECORD DEVELOPMENT:
 
OG&E proposed a level of revenue requirement, corresponding rates, and other items in its Application and Direct Testimonies and Exhibits filed September 28, 2010, and revised on September 29, 2010, and October 7, 2010.  After conducting extensive discovery, Staff, the AG, and NWIEC filed Direct Testimony on March 15, 2011.  OG&E filed Rebuttal Testimony on April 5, 2011, as corrected on April 14, 2011.  Staff and the AG filed Surrebuttal Testimony on April 26, 2011.
 
The Record has been developed fully as reflected in the filed testimonies and exhibits.  In pursuit of settlement, a complete discussion of the issues outstanding was
 
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undertaken among the Settling Parties, each being a strong advocate for its respective position. The result is that the Settling Parties to this Agreement have agreed to settle this case based on Staff’s recommendations advanced in its Surrebuttal Testimonies and Exhibits, except as indicated below.
 
2.        REVENUE REQUIREMENT:
 
A.           The Settling Parties agree that OG&E's non-fuel rate schedule revenue requirement, Arkansas jurisdiction, is $88,607,368 with a resulting revenue deficiency of $8,787,918, as shown in Attachment No. 1.
 
B.           While the agreed-upon revenue requirement reflects a negotiated settlement of all revenue requirement issues, the Settling Parties agree that the revenue deficiency and revenue requirement were developed based on Staff's April 26, 2011 Surrebuttal revenue requirement and related recommendations adjusted only as listed below:

 
                            1.  
Decrease depreciation expense in the amount of $107,419 to correct an error in Staff’s calculation in its Surrebuttal case.  The decrease in revenue requirement resulting from this change is  $10,290;
 
                            2.  
Increase working capital assets in the amount of $10,575,133 based on additional information provided by the Company.  The increase in retail revenue requirement resulting from this change is $99,083; and

 
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                            3.  
The return on equity is reduced from 10% to 9.95% and as a result the overall rate of return reduced from 5.95% to 5.93% as shown below.  The decrease in revenue requirement resulting from this change is $141,142.  All other capital components and cost rates are unchanged, including the weighted cost of debt of 2.45%.
 
Overall Rate of Return
       
Weighted
Component
Amount
Proportion
Rate
Cost
         
Long-Term Debt
$2,006,378,121
37.94%
6.31%
2.39%
Short-Term Debt
       160,510,250
3.03%
0.34%
0.01%
Common Equity
    1,845,867,871
34.90%
9.95%
3.47%
Customer Deposits
         63,198,986
1.19%
1.64%
0.02%
ADIT
    1,000,655,618
18.92%
0.00%
0.00%
Post-1970 ADITC – Long-Term Debt
           4,685,854
0.09%
6.31%
0.01%
Post-1970 ADITC – Short-Term Debt
               374,868
0.01%
0.34%
0.00%
Post-1970 ADITC – Equity
           4,310,985
0.08%
9.95%
0.01%
CAOL
       190,466,043
3.60%
0.00%
0.00%
Other Capital Items
         12,216,233
0.23%
7.76%
0.02%
         
Totals
$5,288,664,829
100.00%
 
5.93%
 
       C.    The Settling Parties agree the Commission should approve the depreciation rates sponsored by Staff witness Gayle Freier as set forth in Attachment No. 2 hereto, which reflect the depreciation rates proposed in Surrebuttal Exhibit GF-1 as derived from the parameters in Surrebuttal Exhibit GF-2.
 
D.           The Settling Parties agree to the billing determinants set forth in Direct Exhibit RHS-1 of Staff witness Robert H. Swaim.
 
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3.           COST ALLOCATION AND RATE DESIGN:
 
A.           The Settling Parties agree to use the Customer Class Cost of Service Study (COS Study), which was developed using the allocation methods and factors embodied in Staff’s COS Study as presented in Surrebuttal Exhibit SBG-1 of Staff witness Sandra B. Green.  The results of the agreed upon COS Study are set forth in Attachment No.1 to the Agreement.
 
B.           The Settling Parties agree to use OG&E’s filed jurisdictional allocation factors derived using OG&E’s billing determinants for calculating the jurisdictional cost allocations and Staff’s billing determinants for Arkansas rate class allocation and rate design as recommended by Staff witness Robert H. Swaim in his Surrebuttal Testimony and presented in his Direct Exhibit RHS-1.
 
C.           Consistent with Staff Witness Sandra B. Green’s Surrebuttal Testimony (page 9, lines 1 – 10), to mitigate customer impact, the revenue surplus resulting from the Lighting class shall be distributed in a fair manner among the classes/service levels requiring a larger-than-system-average increase.  The resulting non-fuel rate schedule revenue requirement for each customer class is as follows:

   
Revenue      
     
 
Rate Class
Requirement
 
Increase
 
 
Residential
$31,204,181
 
$2,420,238
 
 
General Service
$9,260,801
 
$529,179
 
 
Power & Light
$22,496,833
 
$2,507,125
 
 
Power & Light TOU
$22,492,255
 
$3,315,960
 
 
Lighting
$3,023,370
 
$0
 
 
Municipal Pumping
$67,497
 
$9,588
 
 
Athletic Field Lighting
$62,431
 
$5,827
 
 
Total Arkansas Retail
$88,607,368
 
$8,787,918
 
 
 
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D.          The Settling Parties agree that the Company will file compliance tariffs on or before Tuesday, June 7, 2011, which will reflect a rate design consistent with the terms of this Agreement.  Staff will file Compliance Testimony addressing the tariffs by Wednesday, June 8, 2011.  Staff will use its best efforts to work with the Company in advance of these dates to insure that the tariffs are consistent with the Agreement prior to these filing deadlines.
 
E.           The Settling Parties agree that the customer charge for the Residential class will increase by the system average increase; the customer charge for the General Service class will not change.
 
F.           The Settling Parties agree that OG&E’s rate design will comply with Staff’s recommendations regarding block design.
 
G.           The Settling Parties agree that OG&E will offer both Demand-based and Energy-based Power and Light-Time of Use rates.  Rate schedules SL-2, SL-3 and SL-4 will be re-combined into a single PL-TOU Energy rate schedule as is the case in the currently approved tariff.  Rate schedule SL-1 PL-TOU Energy will include a “super peak” period rate during the hours of 4pm to 6pm.
 
H.           The Settling Parties agree that OG&E will include Residential and General Service Time of Use rates, but will not offer a senior citizen discount.
 
I.            The Settling Parties agree that OG&E will include Residential and General Service Variable Peak Pricing rates, but will not offer a senior citizen discount and customers will pay for incremental meter costs.
 
 
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J.            The Settling Parties agree that OG&E will not offer flat bill rates.
 
K.          The Settling Parties agree to reject OG&E’s proposal for a Customer Education and Demand Rider.
 
L.           The Settling Parties agree that OG&E will offer a Transmission Cost Recovery Rider as set forth in Staff witness Butler’s Surrebuttal Exhibit RLB-1.
 
M.          The Settling Parties agree the Commission should approve Staff’s recommended Energy Cost Recovery Rider (Rider ECR) as set forth in Staff witness Butler’s Surrebuttal Exhibit RLB-2, which does not include uncollectible accounts expense or carbon taxes or other costs associated with future legislation.
 
N.          The Settling Parties agree the Commission should approve OG&E’s proposed Load Reduction Rider (LR Rider) as recommended in Staff witness Butler’s Direct and Surrebuttal Testimonies.  OG&E will allow Day-Ahead Pricing (DAP) customers to participate in the LR Rider provided that the terms of both tariffs are properly defined to prevent duplicate benefits for the reduction in load.  Purchased power capacity costs related to the LR Rider may be temporarily recovered through Rider ECR until the next rate case.  In the next rate case purchased power capacity costs related to the LR Rider will be incorporated in base rates.
 
O.          The Settling Parties agree the Commission should approve a revision to DAP tariff, which implements a risk and recovery factor (RRF) of $.003 per kWh and imposes certain reporting requirements as recommended in the Surrebuttal Testimony of Staff witness Butler.  Purchased power capacity payments will be recovered in base rates and the energy component will be recovered through Rider ECR.
 
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4.        OTHER ISSUES:
 
A.           OG&E requests, and the Settling Parties do not object, that the new rates become effective for bills rendered as soon as possible after a Commission order approving the Agreement but not later than for bills rendered on July 1,  2011;
 
B.           The Settling Parties agree the Commission should approve Staff’s recommendation to reject OG&E’s proposal for pension and OPEB trackers.
 
C.           The Settling Parties agree the Commission should approve Staff’s recommendation to reject OG&E’s proposal for a storm rider or tracker.
 
D.           OG&E may defer, for accounting purposes, the proposed expenses associated with the customer education program for an amount not to exceed $300,000 per year for a maximum of two years.  This amount should include only incremental charges, i.e., excluding salaries, postage or other costs already considered in base rates, and should only be for the purposes of educating or informing customers and without the accrual of carrying charges.  The deferred costs will be reviewed in OG&E’s next retail rate case to ensure the costs reasonably meet the above requirements for future recovery.
 
E.            OG&E shall comply with the Allowance for Funds Used During Construction (AFUDC) recommendation reflected in the Surrebuttal Testimony of Staff witness Jo Ann Sterling at page 14, line 20 through page 15, line 2.  The overall rate of return is 5.93%.  Nothing herein alters OG&E’s obligation in future rate case applications, pursuant to Docket No. 08-103-U, to make whatever adjustment may be necessary to accurately state gross plant consistent with the terms of this provision.
 
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 F.            On a prospective basis, OG&E shall keep depreciation expense and likewise accumulated depreciation on an individual FERC account level, by plant and unit, and report in the same manner in future rate applications.
 
       G.            On a prospective basis, OG&E shall utilize the functional/FERC account/plant/unit allocation that Staff performed in this case as the Arkansas adjustment to accumulated depreciation.  Nothing herein alters OG&E’s obligation for future rate case applications, pursuant to Docket No. 08-103-U, to make an adjustment to accurately reflect net plant at Arkansas-approved depreciation rates.
 
H.           In future rate cases OG&E shall fully explain any adjustment to per book amounts in its initial testimony or depreciation study, or include a workpaper that fully explains and supports the adjustment.
 
I.            OG&E’s compliance tariffs will include an attachment to its Rider for Uniform Municipal Tax Adjustment, which lists the name of the municipality and the rate applied to customers’ bills.
 
5.        RIGHTS OF THE SETTLING PARTIES:
 
 A.          This Agreement is made upon the explicit understanding that it constitutes a negotiated settlement which is in the public interest.  Nothing herein shall constitute an admission of any claim, defense, rule or interpretation of law, allegation of fact, principle, or method of ratemaking or cost-of-service determination or rate design, or terms or conditions of service, or the application of any rule or interpretation of law, that may underlie, or be perceived to underlie, this Agreement.
 
       B.           This Agreement is expressly contingent upon its approval by the Commission without any modification. The various provisions of the Agreement are
 
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interdependent and unseverable. All parties shall cooperate fully in seeking the Commission's approval of the Agreement. The parties shall not support any alternative proposal or settlement agreement while this Agreement is pending before the Commission.
 
C.          Except as to matters specifically agreed to be done or occur in the future, no party shall be precluded from taking any position on the merits of any issue in any subsequent proceeding in any forum. This Agreement shall not be used or argued as establishing precedent for any methodology or rate treatment in any future proceeding.
 
D.          In the event the Commission does not accept, adopt, and approve this Agreement in its entirety and without modification, the Settling Parties agree that this Agreement may be declared void and of no effect by any party. In that event, however, the Settling Parties agree that: (a) no party shall be bound by any of the provisions or agreements hereby contained; (b) all parties shall be deemed to have reserved all their respective rights and remedies in this proceeding; and (c) no party shall introduce this Agreement or any related writings, discussions, negotiations, or other communications of  any type in any proceeding.
 
Respectfully submitted,
 
GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARKANSAS
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

By:           /s/Kevin M. Lemley
    Staff Attorney
    Cynthia Uhrynowycz
    Staff Attorney
    1000 Center Street
    P.O. Box 400
    Little Rock, AR  72203-0400
    (501) 682-5878

 
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OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO.

By:           /s/Lawrence E. Chisenhall, Jr.
    Chisenhall, Nestrud & Julian
    2840 Regions Center
    400 W. Capitol Avenue
    Little Rock, AR  72201
    (501) 372-5800

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ARKANSAS

By:           /s/M. Shawn McMurray
    Senior Asst. Attorney General
    Emon Mahony
    Asst. Attorney General
    323 Center Street, Suite 200
    Little Rock, AR  72201
    (501) 682-1053

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL
ENERGY CONSUMERS

By:           /s/Thomas P. Schroedter
    Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable,
    Golden & Nelson, P.C.
    320 S. Boston Avenue, Suite 400
    Tulsa, OK  74103-3708
    (918) 594-0436



 
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  OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY                ATTACHMENT NO. 1
  DOCKET NO. 10-067-U              PAGE 1 OF 1
  COST OF SERVICES STUDY                    
                       
   
TOTAL
 
TOTAL
             
   
COMPANY
OTHER
ARKANSAS
 
GENERAL
POWER &
POWER &
 
MUNICIPAL
ATH. FLD.
LINE
 
PRO FORMA
JURSIDICTIONS
JURISDICTION
RESIDENTIAL
SERVICE
LIGHT
LIGHT TOU
LIGHTING
PUMPING
LIGHTING
NO.
DESCRIPTION
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
                       
 
RATE BASE
                   
1
Gross Plant in Service
$7,014,769,793
$6,352,108,372
$662,661,420
$226,390,964
$69,815,151
$171,024,549
$173,587,185
$20,882,546
$506,243
$454,783
2
Accumulated Depreciation
$2,993,001,922
$2,703,226,092
$289,775,829
$98,026,625
$29,829,558
$74,143,636
$79,229,888
$8,194,186
$193,037
$158,899
3
   Total Net Plant
$4,021,767,871
$3,648,882,280
$372,885,591
$128,364,339
$39,985,593
$96,880,912
$94,357,297
$12,688,359
$313,207
$295,884
4
Plant Held for Future Use
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
5
Working Capital Assets & Misc. Other
$570,816,681
$514,837,610
$55,979,071
$18,505,774
$5,578,103
$14,523,495
$16,034,464
$1,273,356
$34,526
$29,354
6
TOTAL RATE BASE
$4,592,584,552
$4,163,719,890
$428,864,662
$146,870,113
$45,563,696
$111,404,407
$110,391,761
$13,961,716
$347,732
$325,237
                       
 
NON-FUEL OPERATING REVENUES
                   
7
Present Rate Schedules/Class
$1,654,472,988
$1,574,653,537
$79,819,451
$28,783,943
$8,731,622
$19,989,708
$19,176,295
$3,023,370
$57,909
$56,604
8
Other Revenues
$37,516,492
$36,925,005
$591,487
$467,362
$76,304
$24,627
$19,851
$2,857
$424
$62
9
TOTAL OPERATING REVENUES
$1,691,989,480
$1,611,578,542
$80,410,938
$29,251,305
$8,807,926
$20,014,335
$19,196,146
$3,026,227
$58,333
$56,666
                       
 
OPERATING EXPENSES
                   
10
Operations and Maintenance
$1,056,622,369
$1,023,173,404
$33,448,965
$12,327,590
$3,373,973
$8,270,529
$8,710,146
$721,891
$24,091
$20,744
11
Depreciation and Amortization
$190,598,517
$172,844,703
$17,753,814
$6,062,099
$1,854,341
$4,596,586
$4,651,157
$563,543
$13,634
$12,454
12
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES
$1,247,220,886
$1,196,018,107
$51,202,779
$18,389,689
$5,228,314
$12,867,115
$13,361,303
$1,285,435
$37,725
$33,198
                       
13
TAXES OTHER THAN INCOME
$71,609,219
$64,798,676
$6,810,543
$2,338,787
$710,208
$1,751,712
$1,797,421
$202,643
$5,163
$4,609
                       
14
FEDERAL & STATE INCOME TAXES
$84,162,112
$81,870,760
$2,291,352
$1,270,964
$488,827
$397,694
-$306,734
$436,190
$1,297
$3,114
                       
15
TOTAL EXPENSES
$1,402,992,217
$1,342,687,543
$60,304,674
$21,999,441
$6,427,348
$15,016,521
$14,851,990
$1,924,267
$44,185
$40,921
                       
16
OPERATING INCOME
$288,997,263
$268,890,999
$20,106,264
$7,251,865
$2,380,577
$4,997,814
$4,344,156
$1,101,959
$14,148
$15,745
                       
17
PRESENT RATE OF RETURN
6.2927%
6.4580%
4.6883%
4.9376%
5.2247%
4.4862%
3.9352%
7.8927%
4.0687%
4.8412%
                       
                       
 
REVENUE REQUIREMENT DETERMINATION
                   
18
REQUIRED RATE OF RETURN
   
5.93%
5.93%
5.93%
5.93%
5.93%
5.93%
5.93%
5.93%
19
REQUIRED OPERATING INCOME (L6*L18)
   
$25,431,674
$8,709,398
$2,701,927
$6,606,281
$6,546,231
$827,930
$20,621
$19,287
20
OPERATING INCOME DEFICIENCY / (SURPLUS) (L19-L16)
   
$5,325,410
$1,457,533
$321,350
$1,608,467
$2,202,076
-$274,030
$6,472
$3,541
21
REVENUE CONVERSION FACTOR
   
1.650186
1.660503
1.646738
1.646210
1.646210
1.645559
1.645559
1.645559
22
REVENUE DEFICIENCY / (SURPLUS) (L20*L21)
   
$8,787,918
$2,420,238
$529,179
$2,647,875
$3,625,079
($450,932)
$10,651
$5,827
23
% INCREASE (L22/L7)
   
11.01%
8.41%
6.06%
13.25%
18.90%
-14.91%
18.39%
10.29%
24
COS RATE SCHED. / CLASS REV. REQ. (L9 + L22)
   
$89,198,855
$31,671,544
$9,337,105
$22,662,210
$22,821,225
$2,575,295
$68,984
$62,493
         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
REVENUE REQUIREMENT DETERMINATION WITH RIDERS
                 
25
REVENUE DEFICIENCY / (SURPLUS) (L22)
   
$8,787,918
$2,420,238
$529,179
$2,647,875
$3,625,079
($450,932)
$10,651
$5,827
26
NON-FUEL RATE SCHEDULE REVENUE REQUIREMENT (L7+L25)
 
$88,607,368
$31,204,181
$9,260,801
$22,637,583
$22,801,374
$2,572,438
$68,560
$62,431
27
TOTAL OTHER REVENUES (L8)
   
$591,487
$467,362
$76,304
$24,627
$19,851
$2,857
$424
$62
28
TRANSMISSION RIDER (Allocated on 12CP)
   
$1,006,540
$325,440
$95,880
$260,755
$319,128
$4,582
$577
$178
29
FUEL REVENUES (CURRENT ECR RATE)
   
$84,973,039
$22,917,814
$6,849,832
$23,486,093
$30,717,177
$916,149
$48,128
$37,846
30
TOTAL REVENUE REQUIREMENT (L26+L27+L28+L29)
   
$175,178,434
$54,914,798
$16,282,816
$46,409,058
$53,857,530
$3,496,026
$117,688
$100,518
31
% INCREASE IN NON-FUEL RATE SCHEDULE REVENUES (L25 / L7)
 
11.01%
8.41%
6.06%
13.25%
18.90%
-14.91%
18.39%
10.29%
32
% INCREASE IN RATE SCHEDULE REVENUES INCLUDING FUEL ((L25) / (L7+L29))
5.33%
4.68%
3.40%
6.09%
7.27%
-11.45%
10.04%
6.17%
33
% INCREASE TO TOTAL BILL ((L25) / (L30 - L25))
   
5.28%
4.61%
3.36%
6.05%
7.22%
-11.42%
9.95%
6.15%
                       
34
Mitigation Adjustment
   
($0)
$0
$0
($140,750)
($309,119)
$450,932
($1,062)
$0
                       
 
MITIGATED REVENUE REQUIREMENT DETERMINATION WITH RIDERS
                 
35
MITIGATED REVENUE DEFICIENCY
   
$8,787,918
$2,420,238
$529,179
$2,507,125
$3,315,960
$0
$9,588
$5,827
36
NON-FUEL RATE SCHEDULE REVENUE REQUIREMENT
   
$88,607,368
$31,204,181
$9,260,801
$22,496,833
$22,492,255
$3,023,370
$67,497
$62,431
37
TOTAL OTHER REVENUES
   
$591,487
$467,362
$76,304
$24,627
$19,851
$2,857
$424
$62
38
TRANSMISSION RIDER (Allocated on 12CP)
   
$1,006,540
$325,440
$95,880
$260,755
$319,128
$4,582
$577
$178
39
FUEL REVENUES (CURRENT ECR RATE)
   
$84,973,039
$22,917,814
$6,849,832
$23,486,093
$30,717,177
$916,149
$48,128
$37,846
40
TOTAL REVENUE REQUIREMENT
   
$175,178,434
$54,914,798
$16,282,816
$46,268,307
$53,548,411
$3,946,958
$116,626
$100,518
41
% INCREASE IN NON-FUEL RATE SCHEDULE REVENUES
 
11.01%
8.41%
6.06%
12.54%
17.29%
0.00%
16.56%
10.29%
42
% INCREASE IN RATE SCHEDULE REVENUES INCLUDING FUEL
 
5.33%
4.68%
3.40%
5.77%
6.65%
0.00%
9.04%
6.17%
43
% INCREASE TO TOTAL BILL
   
5.28%
4.61%
3.36%
5.73%
6.60%
0.00%
8.96%
6.15%
 
 
 

 
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STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION RATES
   
         
Account
Description
  Depreciation Rate    
         
 
INTANGIBLE PLANT
     
         
302
Franchise and Consents
3.65%
   
303.2
Miscellaneous Intangible Plant-Software
10.51%
   
         
 
PRODUCTION PLANT
     
         
 
STEAM PRODUCTION - GAS
     
         
310.200
Land Rights
     
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
0.06%
 
 
 
Mustang 1
0.77%
*
 
 
Seminole 1
1.48%
 
 
         
311
Structures and Improvements
     
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
2.29%
   
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
1.74%
   
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
1.24%
   
 
Mustang 1
2.92%
   
 
Mustang 2
0.76%
   
 
Mustang 3
0.94%
   
 
Mustang 4
1.49%
   
 
Seminole 1
2.82%
   
 
Seminole 2
2.84%
   
 
Seminole 3
2.09%
   
         
311.500
Security
     
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
10.00%
   
 
Mustang 1
10.00%
   
 
Seminole 1
10.00%
   
         
312
Boiler Plant Equipment
     
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
1.89%
 
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
1.45%
 
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
0.99%
 
 
 
Mustang 1
2.28%
 
 
 
Mustang 2
1.45%
 
 
 
Mustang 3
0.27%
   
 
Mustang 4
0.96%
 
 
 
Seminole 1
2.73%
 
 
 
Seminole 2
2.50%
 
 
 
Seminole 3
1.78%
 
 
         
312.011
CEM - Continuous Emission Monitoring
     
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
10.00%
*
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
10.00%
*
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
10.00%
*
 
 
*Fully-reserved or over-accrued for the purposed of Docket No. 10-067-U.
 

 
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  STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION RATES    
         
  Account  Description Depreciation Rate     
         
 
Mustang 1
10.00%
 
 
 
Mustang 3
10.00%
*
 
 
Mustang 4
10.00%
*
 
 
Seminole 1
10.00%
*
 
 
Seminole 2
10.00%
*
 
 
Seminole 3
10.00%
*
 
         
314
Turbogenerator Units
     
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
0.76%
 
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
0.76%
 
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
0.53%
 
 
 
Mustang 1
0.70%
 
 
 
Mustang 2
1.07%
*
 
 
Mustang 3
1.07%
*
 
 
Mustang 4
0.20%
   
 
Seminole 1
2.16%
 
 
 
Seminole 2
2.11%
 
 
 
Seminole 3
1.35%
 
 
 
Seminole GT
1.07%
*
 
         
315
Accessory Electric Equipment
     
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
0.71%
   
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
0.33%
 
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
0.20%
 
 
 
Mustang 1
0.32%
   
 
Mustang 2
0.94%
*
 
 
Mustang 3
0.94%
*
 
 
Mustang 4
0.94%
*
 
 
Seminole 1
1.69%
 
 
 
Seminole 2
2.20%
 
 
 
Seminole 3
1.10%
 
 
         
316
Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment
     
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
5.62%
 
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
1.21%
 
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
1.30%
 
 
 
Mustang 1
21.31%
 
 
 
Mustang 2
5.87%
*
 
 
Mustang 3
5.87%
*
 
 
Mustang 4
2.26%
 
 
 
Seminole 1
3.45%
 
 
 
Seminole 2
6.81%
 
 
 
Seminole 3
5.00%
 
 
         
317
ARO
     
 
Muskogee 3
1.67%
   
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
1.39%
   
 
Mustang 4
1.59%
   
 
Seminole 3
1.35%
   
 
*Fully-reserved or over-accrued for the purposed of Docket No. 10-067-U.
 

 
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  STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION RATES    
     
  Account  Description  Depreciation Rate     
         
 
STEAM PRODUCTION - COAL
     
         
310.200
Land Rights
     
 
Muskogee 4
1.03%
   
 
Sooner 1
3.49%
   
         
311
Structures and Improvements
     
 
Muskogee 4
2.01%
   
 
Muskogee 5
1.87%
   
 
Muskogee 6
1.73%
   
 
Sooner 1
1.77%
   
 
Sooner 2
1.92%
   
         
311.500
Security
     
 
Muskogee 4
10.00%
   
 
Sooner 1
10.00%
   
         
312
Boiler Plant Equipment
     
 
Muskogee 4
1.74%
   
 
Muskogee 5
1.68%
   
 
Muskogee 6
1.60%
   
 
Sooner 1
1.56%
   
 
Sooner 2
1.78%
   
         
312.011
CEM - Continuous Emission Monitoring
     
 
Muskogee 4
10.00%
   
 
Muskogee 5
10.00%
*
 
 
Muskogee 6
10.00%
*
 
 
Sooner 1
10.00%
   
 
Sooner 2
10.00%
*
 
         
314
Turbogenerator Units
     
 
Muskogee 4
1.46%
   
 
Muskogee 5
1.36%
   
 
Muskogee 6
1.39%
   
 
Sooner 1
1.25%
   
 
Sooner 2
1.53%
   
         
315
Accessory Electric Equipment
     
 
Muskogee 4
1.08%
   
 
Muskogee 5
1.02%
   
 
Muskogee 6
1.03%
   
 
Sooner 1
0.91%
   
 
Sooner 2
1.14%
   
         
316
Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment
     
 
Muskogee 4
2.14%
   
 
Muskogee 5
3.04%
   
 
Muskogee 6
1.49%
   
 
Sooner 1
3.73%
   
 
Sooner 2
1.91%
   
 
Power Supply Svcs
8.28%
   
         
317
ARO
     
 
Muskogee 6
1.37%
   
 
Sooner 2
1.35%
   
 
*Fully-reserved or over-accrued for the purposed of Docket No. 10-067-U.
 

 
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  STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION RATES    
         
 Account  Description  Depreciation Rate     
         
 
OTHER PRODUCTION
     
         
341
Structures and Improvements
     
 
Tinker
3.16%
   
 
Enid
4.66%
   
 
Woodward
4.35%
   
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
3.24%
   
 
McClain Gas 1
4.16%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
4.43%
   
 
McClain Steam 1
4.45%
   
 
McClain HRSG 1
4.16%
   
 
McClain HRSG 2
4.43%
   
 
Centennial Wind Farm
3.95%
   
 
Redbud 1
3.08%
   
 
OU Spirit Wind Farm
4.06%
   
         
342
Fuel Holders, Producers and Accessories
     
 
Tinker
3.18%
   
 
Enid
4.53%
   
 
Woodward
4.10%
   
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
3.24%
   
 
McClain Gas 1
4.46%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
4.69%
   
 
McClain Steam 1
4.67%
   
 
McClain HRSG 1
4.46%
   
 
McClain HRSG 2
4.69%
   
 
Redbud 1
3.04%
   
 
Redbud 2
3.04%
   
 
Redbud 3
3.05%
   
 
Redbud 4
3.04%
   
         
343
Prime Movers
     
 
Tinker
3.18%
   
 
Enid
4.40%
   
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
3.23%
   
 
McClain Gas 1
4.30%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
4.13%
   
 
McClain Steam 1
4.18%
   
 
McClain HRSG 1
4.30%
   
 
McClain HRSG 2
4.13%
   
 
Redbud 1
3.04%
   
 
Redbud 2
3.03%
   
 
Redbud 3
3.37%
   
 
Redbud 4
3.07%
   
         
343.2
LTSA 2-year
     
 
McClain Gas 1
50.00%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
50.00%
   
         
343.3
LTSA 3-year
     
 
McClain Gas 1
33.34%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
33.34%
   
 
*Fully-reserved or over-accrued for the purposed of Docket No. 10-067-U.
 

 
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   STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION RATES    
         
 Account  Description  Depreciation Rate     
         
343.4
LTSA 4-year
     
 
McClain Gas 1
25.00%
   
         
343.5
LTSA 5-year
     
 
McClain Gas 1
20.00%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
20.00%
   
 
Redbud 1
20.00%
   
 
Redbud 2
20.00%
   
 
Redbud 3
20.00%
   
         
343.6
LTSA 6-year
     
 
McClain Gas 1
16.67%
*
 
 
McClain Gas 2
16.67%
 
 
 
Redbud 3
16.67%
*
 
 
Redbud 4
16.67%
*
 
         
343.7
LTSA 7-year
     
 
McClain Gas 1
14.29%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
14.29%
   
         
343.20
LTSA 20-year
     
 
Redbud 2
5.00%
   
 
Redbud 3
5.00%
   
         
343.24
LTSA 24-year
     
 
McClain Steam 1
4.17%
   
 
Redbud 1
4.17%
   
 
Redbud 2
4.17%
   
 
Redbud 3
4.17%
   
 
Redbud 4
4.17%
   
         
343.30
LTSA 30-year
     
 
McClain Gas 1
3.33%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
3.33%
   
         
343.99
CEM - Continuous Emission Monitoring
     
 
McClain Gas 1
10.00%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
10.00%
   
 
McClain HRSG 1
10.00%
   
 
McClain HRSG 2
10.00%
   
 
Redbud 1
10.00%
   
 
Redbud 2
10.00%
   
 
Redbud 3
10.00%
   
 
Redbud 4
10.00%
   
         
344
Generators
     
 
Tinker
3.16%
   
 
Enid
4.31%
   
 
Woodward
3.95%
   
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
3.36%
   
 
McClain Gas 1
3.78%
*
 
 
Centennial Wind Farm
3.96%
   
 
OU Spirit Wind Farm
3.95%
   
 
*Fully-reserved or over-accrued for the purposed of Docket No. 10-067-U.
 

 
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   STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION RATES    
         
 Account  Description  Depreciation Rate     
         
345
Accessory Electric Equipment
     
 
Tinker
3.19%
   
 
Enid
4.40%
   
 
Woodward
3.98%
   
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
3.45%
   
 
McClain Gas 1
4.32%
   
 
McClain Gas 2
4.38%
   
 
McClain Steam 1
4.37%
   
 
McClain HRSG 1
4.32%
   
 
McClain HRSG 2
4.38%
   
 
Redbud 1
3.02%
   
 
Redbud 2
3.03%
   
 
Redbud 3
3.01%
   
 
Redbud 4
3.03%
   
         
346
Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment
     
 
Tinker
13.05%
 
 
 
Enid
4.42%
 
 
 
Woodward
3.98%
 
 
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
3.22%
 
 
 
McClain Gas 1
4.48%
 
 
 
McClain Gas 2
4.62%
   
 
McClain Steam 1
4.62%
   
 
McClain HRSG 1
4.48%
 
 
 
McClain HRSG 2
4.62%
   
 
Centennial Wind Farm
4.11%
   
 
Redbud 1
1.93%
 
 
         
347
ARO
     
 
Enid
1.82%
   
 
Woodward
1.82%
   
 
Centennial Wind Farm
1.01%
   
 
OU Spirit Wind Farm
2.86%
   
         
 
TRANSMISSION PLANT
     
         
350.2
Land Rights
3.00%
   
350.3
Land Rights-Power Supply
3.59%
   
352
Structures and Improvements-Transmission
1.70%
   
352.100
Structures and Improvements-Power Supply
1.57%
   
353
Station Equipment
2.41%
   
353.130
Security
10.00%
   
353.905
Step Up Transformers (Power Supply)
     
 
   Horseshoe Lake 6
0.15%
 
 
 
   Horseshoe Lake 7
0.15%
 
 
 
   Horseshoe Lake 8
0.15%
 
 
 
   Muskogee 4
2.84%
 
 
 
   Muskogee 5
1.56%
 
 
 
   Muskogee 6
1.91%
 
 
 
   Mustang 1
3.12%
 
 
 
   Mustang 2
3.12%
 
 
 
   Mustang 4
1.95%
*
 
 
   Mustang 3
1.97%
 
 
 
   Seminole 1
0.20%
 
 
 
   Seminole 2
0.74%
 
 
 
   Seminole 3
0.99%
 
 
 
*Fully-reserved or over-accrued for the purposed of Docket No. 10-067-U.
 

 
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  STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION RATES    
         
 Account  Description Depreciation Rate      
         
 
   Sooner 1
1.37%
 
 
 
   Sooner 2
4.39%
 
 
 
   Centennial Wind Farm
3.44%
 
 
 
   McClain GSU
2.93%
 
 
 
   Redbud Power Plant
2.30%
 
 
 
   OU Spirit Wind Farm
3.80%
 
 
354
Towers and Fixtures
1.86%
   
355
Poles and Fixtures
2.83%
   
355.1
Poles and Fixtures-Power Supply
2.72%
   
356
Overhead Conductors and Devices
2.13%
   
356.1
Overhead Conductors and Devices-Power Supply
1.86%
   
358
Underground Conductors and Devices
0.83%
   
359
ARO
1.01%
   
         
 
DISTRIBUTION PLANT
     
         
360.2
Land Rights
1.66%
   
361
Structures and Improvements
1.92%
   
362
Station Equipment
2.30%
   
362.100
Security
10.00%
   
362.900
Step Up Transformers for Power Supply-Tinker
7.47%
   
362.900
Step Up Transformers for Power Supply-Woodward
7.41%
   
364
Poles, Towers, and Fixtures
2.36%
   
365
Overhead Conductors and Devices
2.71%
   
366
Underground Conduit
2.24%
   
367
Underground Conductors and Devices
2.45%
   
368
Line Transformers
4.04%
   
369
Services
1.73%
   
370.2
Meters-Standard
2.58%
   
370.3
Meters-Equipment
2.58%
   
371
Installation on Customer Premises
2.89%
   
373
Street Lighting and Signal Systems
2.55%
   
         
 
GENERAL PLANT
     
         
 
POWER DELIVERY
     
389.200
Land Rights
0.72%
 
 
390
Structures and Improvements
1.82%
 
 
391
Office Furniture and Equipment-Accrued
14.59%
 
 
391
Office Furniture and Equipment-Amortized
6.67%
 
 
391.1
Computer Equipment-Accrued
34.96%
 
 
391.1
Computer Equipment-Amortized
20.00%
 
 
391.3
Fax and Copier Equipment-Amortized
20.00%
 
 
393
Stores Equipment-Accrued
0.16%
 
 
393
Stores Equipment-Amortized
4.00%
 
 
394
Tools, Shop and Garage Equipment-Accrued
1.90%
 
 
394
Tools, Shop and Garage Equipment-Amortized
4.00%
 
 
395
Laboratory Equipment-Accrued
5.10%
 
 
395
Laboratory Equipment-Amortized
5.00%
 
 
396
Power Operated Equipment
3.41%
 
 
397
Communication Equipment-Accrued
0.00%
 
 
397
Communication Equipment-Amortized
10.00%
   
398
Miscellaneous Equipment-Accrued
0.00%
 
 
398
Miscellaneous Equipment-Amortized
5.00%
   
 
*Fully-reserved or over-accrued for the purposed of Docket No. 10-067-U.
 

 
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  STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION RATES    
         
 Account  Description  Depreciation Rate     
         
 
FLEET EQUIPMENT - POWER SUPPLY
     
392.1
Standard Cars
6.39%
 
 
392.3
Pickup Trucks
2.02%
 
 
392.4
Light Trucks
0.64%
 
 
392.5
Heavy Trucks
7.98%
*
 
392.6
Trailers
0.23%
 
 
         
 
FLEET EQUIPMENT - POWER DELIVERY
     
392.1
Standard Cars
0.16%
 
 
392.3
Pickup Trucks
4.10%
 
 
392.4
Light Trucks
4.36%
*
 
392.5
Heavy Trucks
6.86%
 
 
392.6
Trailers
2.88%
*
 
         
 
FLEET EQUIPMENT - TRANSMISSION
     
392.1
Standard Cars
3.09%
   
392.3
Pickup Trucks
5.43%
*
 
 
*Fully-reserved or over-accrued for the purposed of Docket No. 10-067-U.
 

 
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  STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION RATES    
         
 Account  Description  Depreciation Rate     
         
 
OG&E HOLDING COMPANY
     
         
 
INTANGIBLE PLANT
     
         
303.200
Software - Depreciable
14.10%
 
 
         
 
GENERAL PLANT
     
         
 
OFFICE FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
     
391.10
Computers and Printers
20.00%
   
391.12
Security
33.33%
   
391.40
Fax Machines
20.00%
   
391.50
Copiers
33.34%
*
 
391.60
Tables, Cubes, and Stands
6.67%
   
391.90
Miscellaneous
6.67%
   
         
 
TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT
     
392.01
Standard Cars
10.44%
 
 
392.03
Pickup Trucks
10.16%
 
 
392.04
Light Trucks
8.07%
 
 
392.05
Heavy Trucks
9.10%
 
 
392.06
Trailers
5.52%
 
 
         
393
Stores Equipment
4.00%
 
 
395
Laboratory Equipment
5.00%
 
 
396
Power Operated Equipment
5.00%
   
         
 
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
     
397.02
Radio Systems
10.00%
   
397.40
Wireless Networks
10.00%
   
397.01
Telephone Equipment
10.00%
   
397.50
Comm. Miscellaneous
10.00%
   
         
398
Miscellaneous Equipment
5.00%
   
         
         
 
*Fully-reserved or over-accrued for the purposed of Docket No. 10-067-U.
 

 
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Account

 Description

Curve
Shape
Interim Survivor Curve/Average
Service Life

Retirement
Year

Remaining
Life
Net
Salvage
Percent
Reserve
Ratio at
12/31/10
               
INTANGIBLE PLANT
302
Franchise and Consents
 SQ
25
-
13.7
0%
50%
303.2
Miscellaneous Intangible Plant-Software
 SQ
3
-
1.6
0%
83%
               
PRODUCTION PLANT
               
STEAM PRODUCTION - GAS
               
310.200
Land Rights
           
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
 S4
100
2018
8.5
0%
100%
 
Mustang 1
 S4
100
2016
6.5
0%
101%
 
Seminole 1
 S4
100
2025
15.5
0%
77%
               
311
Structures and Improvements
           
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
 R3
102
2018
8.4
-20%
101%
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
 R3
102
2024
14.2
-20%
95%
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
 R3
102
2029
19.1
-20%
96%
 
Mustang 1
 R3
102
2016
6.5
-20%
101%
 
Mustang 2
 R3
102
2016
6.5
-20%
115%
 
Mustang 3
 R3
102
2017
7.4
-20%
113%
 
Mustang 4
 R3
102
2020
10.4
-20%
105%
 
Seminole 1
 R3
102
2025
15.3
-20%
77%
 
Seminole 2
 R3
102
2026
16.2
-20%
74%
 
Seminole 3
 R3
102
2030
20.1
-20%
78%
               
311.500
Security
           
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Mustang 1
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Seminole 1
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
               
312
Boiler Plant Equipment
           
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
 R1.5
105
2018
8.4
-15%
99%
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
 R1.5
105
2024
14.2
-15%
94%
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
 R1.5
105
2029
18.9
-15%
96%
 
Mustang 1
 R1.5
105
2016
6.4
-15%
100%
 
Mustang 2
 R1.5
105
2016
6.5
-15%
106%
 
Mustang 3
 R1.5
105
2017
7.4
-15%
113%
 
Mustang 4
 R1.5
105
2020
10.3
-15%
105%
 
Seminole 1
 R1.5
105
2025
15.2
-15%
74%
 
Seminole 2
 R1.5
105
2026
16.0
-15%
75%
 
Seminole 3
 R1.5
105
2030
19.8
-15%
80%
               
312.011
CEM-Continuous Emission Monitoring
           
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
 
 

 
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Account

 Description

 Curve
Shape
 Interim Survivor Curve/Average
Service Life

 Retirement
Year

 Remaining
Life
 Net
Salvage
Percent
Reserve
Ratio at
12/31/10
               
 
Mustang 1
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Mustang 3
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Mustang 4
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Seminole 1
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Seminole 2
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Seminole 3
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
               
314
Turbogenerator Units
           
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
 R1
54
2018
7.9
-5%
99%
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
 R1
54
2024
12.9
-5%
95%
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
 R1
54
2029
17.2
-5%
96%
 
Mustang 1
 R1
54
2016
6.5
-5%
100%
 
Mustang 2
 R1
54
2016
6.2
-5%
115%
 
Mustang 3
 R1
54
2017
7.0
-5%
113%
 
Mustang 4
 R1
54
2020
9.7
-5%
103%
 
Seminole 1
 R1
54
2025
14.1
-5%
75%
 
Seminole 2
 R1
54
2026
14.9
-5%
74%
 
Seminole 3
 R1
54
2030
18.3
-5%
80%
 
Seminole GT
 R1
54
2007
0.5
-5%
114%
               
315
Accessory Electric Equipment
           
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
 S1
124
2018
8.5
0%
94%
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
 S1
124
2024
14.3
0%
95%
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
 S1
124
2029
19.2
0%
96%
 
Mustang 1
 S1
124
2016
6.5
0%
98%
 
Mustang 2
 S1
124
2016
6.5
0%
115%
 
Mustang 3
 S1
124
2017
7.4
0%
113%
 
Mustang 4
 S1
124
2020
10.4
0%
104%
 
Seminole 1
 S1
124
2025
15.3
0%
74%
 
Seminole 2
 S1
124
2026
16.2
0%
64%
 
Seminole 3
 S1
124
2030
20.1
0%
78%
               
316
Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment
           
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
 R1.5
60
2018
8.3
-10%
63%
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
 R1.5
60
2024
13.7
-10%
93%
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
 R1.5
60
2029
18.1
-10%
86%
 
Mustang 1
 R1.5
60
2016
6.4
-10%
-26%
 
Mustang 2
 R1.5
60
2016
6.1
-10%
0%
 
Mustang 3
 R1.5
60
2017
6.9
-10%
112%
 
Mustang 4
 R1.5
60
2020
10.0
-10%
87%
 
Seminole 1
 R1.5
60
2025
14.6
-10%
60%
 
Seminole 2
 R1.5
60
2026
14.8
-10%
9%
 
Seminole 3
 R1.5
60
2030
19.1
-10%
14%
               
317
ARO
           
 
Muskogee 3
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
-
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
-
 
Mustang 4
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
-
 
Seminole 3
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
-
               
 
 
 

 
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Account
  
Description

 Curve
Shape
 Interim Survivor Curve/Average
Service Life
 
Retirement
Year

 Remaining
Life
 Net
Salvage
Percent
 Reserve
Ratio at
12/31/10
               
STEAM PRODUCTION - COAL
               
310.200
Land Rights
           
 
Muskogee 4
 S4
100
2034
24.5
0%
75%
 
Sooner 1
 S4
100
2034
24.5
0%
15%
               
311
Structures and Improvements
           
 
Muskogee 4
 R3
102
2034
24.0
-20%
72%
 
Muskogee 5
 R3
102
2033
23.0
-20%
77%
 
Muskogee 6
 R3
102
2039
28.9
-20%
70%
 
Sooner 1
 R3
102
2034
24.1
-20%
77%
 
Sooner 2
 R3
102
2035
25.0
-20%
72%
               
311.500
Security
           
 
Muskogee 4
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Sooner 1
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
               
312
Boiler Plant Equipment
           
 
Muskogee 4
 R1.5
105
2034
23.6
-15%
74%
 
Muskogee 5
 R1.5
105
2033
22.7
-15%
77%
 
Muskogee 6
 R1.5
105
2039
28.2
-15%
70%
 
Sooner 1
 R1.5
105
2034
23.6
-15%
78%
 
Sooner 2
 R1.5
105
2035
24.5
-15%
71%
               
312.011
CEM-Continuous Emission Monitoring
           
 
Muskogee 4
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Muskogee 5
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Muskogee 6
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Sooner 1
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Sooner 2
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
               
314
Turbogenerator Units
           
 
Muskogee 4
 R1
54
2034
22.2
-5%
73%
 
Muskogee 5
 R1
54
2033
21.0
-5%
76%
 
Muskogee 6
 R1
54
2039
25.2
-5%
70%
 
Sooner 1
 R1
54
2034
21.7
-5%
78%
 
Sooner 2
 R1
54
2035
22.5
-5%
71%
               
315
Accessory Electric Equipment
           
 
Muskogee 4
 S1
124
2034
23.8
0%
74%
 
Muskogee 5
 S1
124
2033
22.9
0%
77%
 
Muskogee 6
 S1
124
2039
28.7
0%
70%
 
Sooner 1
 S1
124
2034
23.8
0%
78%
 
Sooner 2
 S1
124
2035
24.8
0%
72%
               
316
Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment
           
 
Muskogee 4
 R1.5
60
2034
22.6
-10%
62%
 
Muskogee 5
 R1.5
60
2033
21.6
-10%
44%
 
Muskogee 6
 R1.5
60
2039
25.8
-10%
72%
 
Sooner 1
 R1.5
60
2034
22.4
-10%
26%
 
Sooner 2
 R1.5
60
2035
22.4
-10%
67%
 
Power Supply Svcs
 R1.5
60
2020
10.3
-10%
25%
               
317
ARO
           
 
Muskogee 6
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 
Sooner 2
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 
 
 

 
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Account

 Description

 Curve
Shape
 Interim Survivor Curve/Average
Service Life

Retirement
Year

 Remaining
Life
 Net
Salvage
Percent
 Reserve
Ratio at
12/31/10
               
OTHER PRODUCTION
               
341
Structures and Improvements
           
 
Tinker
 S3
50
2018
8.5
0%
73%
 
Enid
 S3
50
2013
3.3
0%
85%
 
Woodward
 S3
50
2013
3.2
0%
86%
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
 S3
50
2035
24.9
0%
19%
 
McClain Gas 1
 S3
50
2031
21.4
0%
11%
 
McClain Gas 2
 S3
50
2031
21.3
0%
6%
 
McClain Steam 1
 S3
50
2031
21.3
0%
5%
 
McClain HRSG 1
 S3
50
2031
21.4
0%
11%
 
McClain HRSG 2
 S3
50
2031
21.3
0%
6%
 
Centennial Wind Farm
 S3
50
2031
21.4
0%
15%
 
Redbud 1
 S3
50
2035
25.2
0%
22%
 
OU Spirit Wind Farm
 S3
50
2034
24.4
0%
1%
               
342
Fuel Holders, Producers and Accessories
           
 
Tinker
 R4
55
2018
8.5
0%
73%
 
Enid
 R4
55
2013
3.4
0%
85%
 
Woodward
 R4
55
2013
3.4
0%
86%
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
 R4
55
2035
25.4
0%
18%
 
McClain Gas 1
 R4
55
2031
21.4
0%
5%
 
McClain Gas 2
 R4
55
2031
21.4
0%
0%
 
McClain HRSG 1
 R4
55
2031
21.4
0%
5%
 
McClain HRSG 2
 R4
55
2031
21.4
0%
0%
 
Redbud 1
 R4
55
2035
25.3
0%
23%
 
Redbud 2
 R4
55
2035
25.3
0%
23%
 
Redbud 3
 R4
55
2035
25.3
0%
23%
 
Redbud 4
 R4
55
2035
25.3
0%
23%
               
343
Prime Movers
           
 
Tinker
 R4
112
2018
8.5
0%
73%
 
Enid
 R4
112
2013
3.5
0%
85%
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
 R4
112
2035
25.5
0%
18%
 
McClain Gas 1
 R4
112
2031
21.5
0%
8%
 
McClain Gas 2
 R4
112
2031
21.5
0%
11%
 
McClain Steam 1
 R4
112
2031
21.5
0%
10%
 
McClain HRSG 1
 R4
112
2031
21.5
0%
8%
 
McClain HRSG 2
 R4
112
2031
21.5
0%
11%
 
Redbud 1
 R4
112
2035
25.5
0%
23%
 
Redbud 2
 R4
112
2035
25.5
0%
23%
 
Redbud 3
 R4
112
2035
25.5
0%
14%
 
Redbud 4
 R4
112
2035
25.5
0%
22%
               
343.2
LTSA - 2 year
           
 
McClain Gas 1
 SQ
2
-
-
-
-
 
McClain Gas 2
 SQ
2
-
-
-
-
               
343.3
LTSA - 3 year
           
 
McClain Gas 1
 SQ
3
-
-
-
-
 
McClain Gas 2
 SQ
3
-
-
-
-
 
 
 

 
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Account
 
Description

 Curve
Shape
 Interim Survivor Curve/Average
Service Life

 Retirement
Year

 Remaining
Life
 Net
Salvage
Percent
 Reserve
Ratio at
12/31/10
               
343.4
LTSA - 4 year
 SQ
4
-
-
-
-
 
McClain Gas 1
           
               
343.5
LTSA - 5 year
           
 
McClain Gas 1
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
 
McClain Gas 2
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 1
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 2
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 3
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
               
343.6
LTSA - 6 year
           
 
McClain Gas 1
 SQ
6
-
-
-
-
 
McClain Gas 2
 SQ
6
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 3
 SQ
6
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 4
 SQ
6
-
-
-
-
               
343.7
LTSA - 7 year
           
 
McClain Gas 1
 SQ
7
-
-
-
-
 
McClain Gas 2
 SQ
7
-
-
-
-
               
343.20
LTSA - 20 year
           
 
Redbud 2
 SQ
20
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 3
 SQ
20
-
-
-
-
               
343.24
LTSA - 24 year
           
 
McClain Steam 1
 SQ
24
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 1
 SQ
24
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 2
 SQ
24
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 3
 SQ
24
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 4
 SQ
24
-
-
-
-
               
343.30
LTSA - 30 year
           
 
McClain Gas 1
 SQ
30
-
-
-
-
 
McClain Gas 2
 SQ
30
-
-
-
-
               
343.99
CEM-Continuous Emission Monitoring
           
 
McClain Gas 1
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
McClain Gas 2
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
McClain HRSG 1
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
McClain HRSG 2
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 1
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 2
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 3
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
 
Redbud 4
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
               
344
Generators
           
 
Tinker
 S1.5
62
2018
8.5
0%
73%
 
Enid
 S1.5
62
2013
3.5
0%
85%
 
Woodward
 S1.5
62
2013
3.5
0%
86%
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
 S1.5
62
2035
24.5
0%
18%
 
McClain Gas 1
 S1.5
62
2031
24.5
0%
n/a
 
Centennial Wind Farm
 S1.5
62
2031
21.3
0%
16%
 
OU Spirit Wind Farm
 S1.5
62
2034
24.2
0%
4%
 
 
 

 
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Account

 Description

 Curve
Shape
 Interim Survivor Curve/Average
Service Life

 Retirement
Year

 Remaining
Life
 Net
Salvage
Percent
 Reserve
Ratio at
12/31/10
               
345
Accessory Electric Equipment
           
 
Tinker
 R4
106
2018
8.5
0%
73%
 
Enid
 R4
106
2013
3.5
0%
85%
 
Woodward
 R4
106
2013
3.5
0%
86%
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
 R4
106
2035
25.5
0%
12%
 
McClain Gas 1
 R4
106
2031
21.5
0%
7%
 
McClain Gas 2
 R4
106
2031
21.5
0%
6%
 
McClain Steam 1
 R4
106
2031
21.5
0%
6%
 
McClain HRSG 1
 R4
106
2031
21.5
0%
7%
 
McClain HRSG 2
 R4
106
2031
21.5
0%
6%
 
Redbud 1
 R4
106
2035
25.5
0%
23%
 
Redbud 2
 R4
106
2035
25.5
0%
23%
 
Redbud 3
 R4
106
2035
25.5
0%
23%
 
Redbud 4
 R4
106
2035
25.5
0%
23%
               
346
Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment
           
 
Tinker
 R4
83
2018
8.5
0%
-1444%
 
Enid
 R4
83
2013
3.5
0%
85%
 
Woodward
 R4
83
2013
3.5
0%
86%
 
Horseshoe Lake 9 & 10
 R4
83
2035
25.4
0%
18%
 
McClain Gas 1
 R4
83
2031
21.5
0%
4%
 
McClain Gas 2
 R4
83
2031
21.5
0%
1%
 
McClain Steam 1
 R4
83
2031
21.5
0%
1%
 
McClain HRSG 1
 R4
83
2031
21.5
0%
4%
 
McClain HRSG 2
 R4
83
2031
21.5
0%
1%
 
Centennial Wind Farm
 R4
83
2031
21.5
0%
12%
 
Redbud 1
 R4
83
2035
25.5
0%
51%
               
347
ARO
           
 
Enid
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 
Woodward
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 
Centennial Wind Farm
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 
OU Spirit Wind Farm
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
               
TRANSMISSION PLANT
               
350.2
Land Rights
 R4
70
-
26.1
0%
22%
350.3
Land Rights-Power Supply
 R4
70
-
26.1
0%
6%
352
Structures and Improvements-Transmission
 R2.5
65
-
50.7
0%
14%
352.100
Structures and Improvements-Power Supply
 R2.5
65
-
50.7
0%
20%
353
Station Equipment
 L0.5
51
-
40.2
-22%
25%
353.130
Security
 SQ
10
-
7.0
0%
35%
353.905
Step Up Transformers (Power Supply)
           
 
Horseshoe Lake 6
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
96%
 
Horseshoe Lake 7
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
96%
 
Horseshoe Lake 8
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
96%
 
Muskogee 4
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
27%
 
Muskogee 5
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
60%
 
Muskogee 6
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
51%
 
Mustang 1
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
19%
 
Mustang 2
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
19%
 
Mustang 4
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
129%
 
Mustang 3
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
49%
 
Seminole 1
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
95%
 
Seminole 2
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
81%
 
Seminole 3
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
74%
 
 
 

 
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Account
 
Description

 Curve
Shape
 Interim Survivor Curve/Average
Service Life

 Retirement
Year

Remaining
Life 
Net
Salvage
Percent 
Reserve
Ratio at
12/31/10 
               
 
Sooner 1
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
65%
 
Sooner 2
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
-13%
 
Centennial Wind Farm
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
11%
 
McClain GSU
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
25%
 
Redbud Power Plant
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
41%
 
OU Spirit Wind Farm
 R2.5
40
-
25.8
0%
2%
354
Towers and Fixtures
 L3
69
-
50.8
-15%
20%
355
Poles and Fixtures
 L1
52
-
42.3
-52%
32%
355.1
Poles and Fixtures-Power Supply
 L1
52
-
42.3
-52%
37%
356
Overhead Conductors and Devices
 R2.5
58
-
45.8
-30%
32%
356.1
Overhead Conductors and Devices-Power Supply
 R2.5
58
-
45.8
-30%
45%
358
Underground Conductors and Devices
 R2.5
40
-
8.3
0%
93%
359
ARO
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
               
               
DISTRIBUTION PLANT
               
360.2
Land Rights
 S4
60
 
44.8
0%
26%
361
Structures and Improvements
 R2
55
 
46.4
-10%
21%
362
Station Equipment
 L0
51
 
42.7
-25%
27%
362.100
Security
 SQ
10
 
7.0
0%
17%
362.900
   Step Up Transformers for Power Supply-Tinker
 R2.5
40
 
13.5
0%
-1%
362.900
   Step Up Transformers for Power Supply-Woodward
 R2.5
40
 
13.5
0%
0%
364
Poles, Towers, and Fixtures
 L0.5
47
 
41.6
-40%
42%
365
Overhead Conductors and Devices
 L1
49
 
37.2
-36%
35%
366
Underground Conduit
 L2.5
53
 
46.0
-30%
27%
367
Underground Conductors and Devices
 S1
47
 
42.3
-31%
27%
368
Line Transformers
 R1
35
 
24.0
-20%
23%
369
Services
 L1.5
51
 
44.0
-20%
44%
370.2
Meters-Standard
 L1
30
 
24.3
-5%
42%
370.3
Meters-Equipment
 L1
30
 
24.3
-5%
42%
371
Installation on Customer Premises
 S2
30
 
28.5
0%
18%
373
Street Lighting and Signal Systems
 S1.5
40
 
34.1
-30%
43%
               
               
GENERAL PLANT
               
 
POWER DELIVERY
           
389.200
Land Rights
 R4
45
-
20.4
0%
85%
390
Structures and Improvements
 R3.5
34
-
18.4
0%
67%
391
Office Furniture and Equipment-Accrued
 SQ
15
-
-
-
-
391
Office Furniture and Equipment-Amortized
 SQ
15
-
-
-
-
391.1
Computer Equipment-Accrued
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
391.1
Computer Equipment-Amortized
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
391.3
Fax and Copier Equipment-Amortized
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
393
Stores Equipment-Accrued
 SQ
25
-
-
-
-
393
Stores Equipment-Amortized
 SQ
25
-
-
-
-
394
Tools, Shop and Garage Equipment-Accrued
 SQ
25
-
-
-
-
394
Tools, Shop and Garage Equipment-Amortized
 SQ
25
-
-
-
-
395
Laboratory Equipment-Accrued
 SQ
20
-
-
-
-
395
Laboratory Equipment-Amortized
 SQ
20
-
-
-
-
396
Power Operated Equipment
 L1
16
-
11.4
18%
43%
397
Communication Equipment-Accrued
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
397
Communication Equipment-Amortized
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
398
Miscellaneous Equipment-Accrued
 SQ
20
-
-
-
-
398
Miscellaneous Equipment-Amortized
 SQ
20
-
-
-
-
 
 
 

 
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Account
 
Description

 Curve
Shape
 Interim Survivor Curve/Average
Service Life
 
Retirement
Year

 Remaining
Life
 Net
Salvage
Percent
 Reserve
Ratio at
12/31/10
               
 
FLEET EQUIPMENT - POWER SUPPLY
           
392.1
Standard Cars
 R3
9.5
-
8.7
8%
36%
392.3
Pickup Trucks
 S2.5
10
-
5.5
8%
81%
392.4
Light Trucks
 L2.5
11
-
7.3
8%
87%
392.5
Heavy Trucks
 L3
13
-
5.2
8%
115%
392.6
Trailers
 S0.5
25
-
17.8
8%
88%
               
 
FLEET EQUIPMENT - POWER DELIVERY
           
392.1
Standard Cars
 R3
9.5
-
7.0
8%
91%
392.3
Pickup Trucks
 S2.5
10
-
6.1
8%
67%
392.4
Light Trucks
 L2.5
11
-
7.9
8%
106%
392.5
Heavy Trucks
 L3
13
-
8.7
8%
32%
392.6
Trailers
 S0.5
25
-
16.1
8%
100%
               
 
FLEET EQUIPMENT - TRANSMISSION
           
392.1
Standard Cars
 R3
9.5
-
7.0
8%
70%
392.3
Pickup Trucks
 S2.5
10
-
6.1
8%
0%
 
 
 

 
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  STAFF RECOMMENDED DEPRECIATION PARAMETERS
               
 
Account

 Description
 
Curve
Shape
 Interim Survivor Curve/Average
Service Life

 Retirement
Year

 Remaining
Life
 Net
Salvage
Percent
 Reserve
Ratio at
12/31/10
               
OG&E HOLDING COMPANY
               
INTANGIBLE PLANT
               
303.200
     Software - Depreciable
 SQ
5
-
3.2
0%
55%
               
GENERAL PLANT
               
 
OFFICE FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT
           
391.10
Computers and Printers
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
391.12
Security
 SQ
3
-
-
-
-
391.40
Fax Machines
 SQ
5
-
-
-
-
391.50
Copiers
 SQ
3
-
-
-
-
391.60
Tables, Cubes, and Stands
 SQ
15
-
-
-
-
391.90
Miscellaneous
 SQ
15
-
-
-
-
               
 
TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT
           
392.01
Standard Cars
 R0.5
7.5
-
6.7
0%
30%
392.03
Pickup Trucks
 R2.5
10
-
6.1
0%
38%
392.04
Light Trucks
 R3
11
-
7.0
0%
44%
392.05
Heavy Trucks
 R4
10
-
8.1
0%
26%
392.06
Trailers
 R2.5
16
-
13.4
0%
26%
               
393
Stores Equipment
 SQ
25
-
-
-
-
395
Laboratory Equipment
 SQ
20
-
-
-
-
396
Power Operated Equipment
 R2
20
-
15.5
0%
35%
               
 
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
           
397.02
Radio Systems
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
397.40
Wireless Networks
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
397.01
Telephone Equipment
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
397.50
Comm. Miscellaneous
 SQ
10
-
-
-
-
               
398
Miscellaneous Equipment
 SQ
20
-
-
-
-