Should the Commission Adopt a Uniform Statewide Method to Calculate the Discount?
PG&E takes no position on whether there should be a uniform statewide method of calculating the discount. Its current discount is based on the sampling method, and it wishes to continue to be allowed to use it. SCE believes there should not be a uniform statewide method of calculating the discount, and wishes to be allowed to use a marginal cost method. Sempra believes there should be a uniform statewide method of calculating the discount, and it should be a marginal cost method. TURN recommends that the sampling method should be adopted as the uniform statewide method of calculating the discount. WMA recommends that a marginal cost method be adopted as the uniform statewide method of calculating the discount.8 LIF took no position on this issue. There are two general methods for calculating the discount. One method is the sampling method. Under this method, the utility estimates the costs of the facilities that are necessary to directly serve tenants of a MHP from a survey of a sample
