HomeMy WebLinkAboutR2017-054RESOLUTION NO. R2017-054
A RESOLUTION DIRECTING AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY OF THE
CITY OF DENTON TO INTERVENE IN THE STAFF APPLICATION TO SET 2018
WHOLESALE TRANSMISSION SERVICE CHARGES FOR THE ELECTRIC RELIABILITY
COUNCIL OF TEXAS PENDING BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION OF
TEXAS UNDER DOCKET NO. 47777 AND TO USE, IF NEEDED, THE AUSTIN LAW
FIRM OF LLOYD GOSSELINK ROCHELLE & TOWNSEND, P.C. TO REPRESENT THE
CITY IN THE SAME; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, each year, the Public Utility Commission of Texas ("PUC") sets wholesale
transmission service charges for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas ("ERCOT"). ERCOT
is required under 16 Tex. Admin Code § 25.192(d) (TAC) to file the current year's four
coincident peak demand for each distribution service provider by December 1. This information
is used in establishing the transmission service charges for the subsequent year. The PUC has
jurisdiction over this application pursuant to Public Utility Regulatory Act, Chapter 35,
Subchapter A;
WHEREAS, on November 15, 2017, the PUC staff filed Staff's Application to Set
ERCOT Wholesale Transmission Service Charges for 2018 (Docket No. 47777; "Proceeding");
WHEREAS, January 2, 2018 is the deadline to file any motion to intervene in the
Proceeding;
WHEREAS, the City Attorney's Office has the Austin law firm of Lloyd Gosselink
Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. under retainer to represent the City in such electric utility matters
before the PUC;
WHEREAS, the City, along with the Cities of Garland and Bryan, and the Texas
Municipal Power Agency, have annually intervened in such proceedings with the purpose being
to ensure that the PUC aggregates TMPA's Gibbons Creek Power Plant portion of the load for
the its member cities (the Cities of Bryan, Denton, Garland and Greenville) under TMPA; and
WHEREAS, the City finds it is in the public interest of the ratepayers to intervene in the
Proceeding; NOW THEREFORE;
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY RESOLVES:
SECTION 1. The findings and recitations contained in the preamble of this Resolution
are incorporated herein by reference.
SECTION 2. The City Attorney is directed and authorized to take the appropriate action
to intervene on the City's behalf in the Texas Public Utility Commission ("PUC") Staff's
Application to Set ERCOT Wholesale Transmission Service Charges for 2018 pending before
the PUC under Docket No. 47777 ("Proceeding").
SECTION 3. The City Attorney, if needed, is authorized to use the services of the
Austin law firm of Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. to represent the City's
intervention in the Proceeding;
SECTION 4. This Resolution shall become efl'ctive immediately upon its passage and
approval.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the /0n
ATTEST:
JE FER WALTERS, Cl" Y SECRETARY
BY:
A 1'I V EIS A, TO LEGAL FORM:
AARON LEAL, CITYA TORNEY
BY: