How will this price increase impact the various commercial customer classes?
Plan Increase General Service E-32 4.6% General Service E-36 4.6% Pumping E-47, E-48 5.7% Lighting E-54, E-56, E-57 7.8% Large General Service E-61 3.8% Large General Service E-63 3.8% Large General Service E-65 2.4% Why the variation in increases among price plans? The increase effective with the May 2010 billing cycle has been allocated to each of the customer classes based on the results of the Unbundling Revenue Analysis Study. A higher-than-average increase to base prices was driven by those customers classes with lower-than average-returns, while a less-than-average increase to base prices percent is proposed for customer classes with higher rate of returns (return refers to the measure of how each customer class covers its expenses and investment). What other pricing related changes or fees are being enacted? For all customer classes, change the 10-Day SurePay Automatic Payment Program discount from 1.0% of the monthly bill to 0.5% for the May 2010 through the April 2011 billing