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Commitments And Contingencies (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Impact Of The Penalty Decision

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nine Months

 

Cumulative

 

Future

 

 

 

Ended

 

Charges

 

Charges

 

Total

 

 

September 30,

 

 

September 30,

 

and

 

 

 

(in millions)

2015

 

2015

 

Costs

 

Amount

Fine payable to the state (1)

$

100 

 

$ 

300 

 

$ 

- 

 

$ 

300 

Customer bill credit

 

400 

 

 

400 

 

 

- 

 

 

400 

Charge for disallowed capital (2)

 

270 

 

 

270 

 

 

419 

 

 

689 

Disallowed revenue for pipeline safety

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  expenses (3)

 

- 

 

 

- 

 

 

161 

 

 

161 

CPUC estimated cost of other remedies (4)

 

- 

 

 

20 

 

 

30 

 

 

50 

Total Penalty Decision fines and remedies

$

770 

 

$ 

990 

 

$ 

610 

 

$ 

1,600 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1) In March 2015, the Utility increased its accrual from $200 million at December 31, 2014 to $300 million.

(2) The Penalty Decision prohibits the Utility from recovering certain expenses and capital spending associated with pipeline safety-related projects and programs that the CPUC will identify in the final decision to be issued in the Utility’s 2015 GT&S rate case. The Utility estimates that approximately $142 million and $270 million of capital spending (which include less than $1 million for remedy related capital costs)in the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2015, respectively, are probable of disallowance, subject to adjustment based on the final 2015 GT&S rate case decision.

(3) These costs are being expensed as incurred. Future GT&S revenues will be reduced for these unrecovered expenses.

(4) In the Penalty Decision, the CPUC estimated that the Utility would incur $50 million to comply with the remedies specified in the Penalty Decision, including approximately $30 million for the cost of future audits to be conducted by the SED.  The amounts shown in the table above represent these estimated amounts and do not reflect the Utility’s remedy-related costs already incurred nor the Utility’s estimated future remedy-related costs.  The Utility has submitted testimony in its 2017 GRC request to remove additional remedy-related costs of approximately $61 million.

Schedule Of Environmental Remediation Liability

 

Balance at

 

September 30,

 

December 31,

(in millions)

2015

 

2014

Topock natural gas compressor station (1)

$

296 

 

$ 

291 

Hinkley natural gas compressor station (1)

 

136 

 

 

158 

Former manufactured gas plant sites owned by the Utility or third parties

 

267 

 

 

257 

Utility-owned generation facilities (other than fossil fuel-fired),

  other facilities, and third-party disposal sites

 

153 

 

 

150 

Fossil fuel-fired generation facilities and sites

 

94 

 

 

98 

Total environmental remediation liability

$

946 

 

$ 

954 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1) See “Natural Gas Compressor Station Sites” below.