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From: Jay Shepherd [mailto:jay.shepherd@canadianenergylawyers.com]
Sent: October-16-15 6:05 PM
To: 'Julie Girvan'
Cc: BoardSec; indy.butany@horizonutilities.com; 'Sidlofsky, James C.'; Christie Clark; 'Wayne McNally'; 'Mark Rubenstein'; shelley.grice@rogers.com; 'Randy Aiken Aiken'; 'Ruth Greey'; tbrett@foglers.com; 'Mark Garner Garner'; 'Michael Janigan Janigan'
Subject: RE: EB-2015-0075 Horizon 2016 Rates -Consumers Council of Canada Technical Conference Issues

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SEC believes that all of the other areas in which we will have questions have been mentioned by others, but for clarity advises the following issues:

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1.      The precise credits and debits that will qualify for inclusion in the monthly billing deferral account, including the effect of monthly billing on the cost of working capital.

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2.      All impacts of the 1.6 MW forecast reduction in street lighting load, including impact on costs (what costs have to be re-allocated to other classes, and why) and the impact on revenues. Of interest also will be the reliability of the forecast, any proposed true-up, and why this is not being dealt with through a variance account so that it represents measured results rather than forecast results.

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Jay Shepherd, Energy Law

2300 Yonge St., Suite 806

Toronto M4P 1E4

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Tel: 416-483-3300

Cell: 416-804-2767 (best contact)

Fax: 416-483-3305

HYPERLINK "http://www.canadianenergylawyers.com"www.canadianenergylawyers.com

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From: Julie Girvan [mailto:jgirvan@uniserve.com]
Sent: October-16-15 3:20 PM
To: HYPERLINK "mailto:jay.shepherd@canadianenergylawyers.com"jay.shepherd@canadianenergylawyers.com Shepherd
Cc: Board Secretary; HYPERLINK "mailto:indy.butany@horizonutilities.com"indy.butany@horizonutilities.com Butany-DeSouza; Sidlofsky, James C.; Christie Clark; Wayne McNally; Mark Rubenstein; HYPERLINK "mailto:shelley.grice@rogers.com"shelley.grice@rogers.com Grice; Randy Aiken Aiken; Ruth Greey; HYPERLINK "mailto:tbrett@foglers.com"tbrett@foglers.com; Mark Garner Garner; Michael Janigan Janigan
Subject: Re: EB-2015-0075 Horizon 2016 Rates -Consumers Council of Canada Technical Conference Issues

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The Consumers Council of Canada is interested in developing a better understanding of the following issues at the Technical Conference:

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The differences between the proposed rates and those contained in Appendix H of the EB-2014-0002 Settlement Agreement;
How Horizon intends to communicate with its customers regarding the changes coming to the bill - OESP, Fixed Charges, end of DRC and Clean Energy Benefit etc.; Â
The costs associated with monthly billing. Â

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Best Regards,

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Julie Girvan

On Oct 13, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Jay Shepherd <HYPERLINK "mailto:jay.shepherd@canadianenergylawyers.com"jay.shepherd@canadianenergylawyers.com> wrote:

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SEC’s focus in the technical conference will be on the differences between the 2016 rates forecast in the EB-2014-0002 DRO, and the rates proposed in this application.

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We will be asking Horizon to provide a detailed table of rates, with each component of the 2016 rates from the 2015 DRO in one column, the proposed rates in this application at the same level of detail in the next, and a detailed explanation of each variance (including references to the evidence in this proceeding).

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We are still reviewing the application, and if we have any further issues of interest, we will advise.

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Jay

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Jay Shepherd, Energy Law

2300 Yonge St., Suite 806

Toronto M4P 1E4

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Tel: 416-483-3300

Cell: 416-804-2767 (best contact)

Fax: 416-483-3305

HYPERLINK "http://www.canadianenergylawyers.com/"www.canadianenergylawyers.com

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