Docket Nos. ER22-1846-002, ER22-1846-003
I concur with the order, which denies without prejudice SPP’s earlier rate filing proposing amendments to its “Highway/Byway” cost allocation methodology. This order thus reverses the Commission’s approval of SPP’s earlier filing.
As I noted in my dissent to the original order of approval, state support for the new cost allocation proposed by the SPP Board was not uniform.[1] At least four states were on record as opposing SPP’s proposal. Should SPP seek to file another version of its cost allocation for these types of projects, it is my hope that any such new cost allocation will earn the support of all states to which costs could be allocated.
For these reasons, I respectfully concur.
[1] Sw. Power Pool, Inc., 181 FERC ¶ 61,076 (2022) (Christie, Comm’r, dissenting at P 3), https://www.ferc.gov/news-events/news/commissioner-christies-dissent-spp-highwaybyway-cost-allocation-exception-docket.