U-21534-0524

Overview

ABATE filed a reply brief in DTE Electric’s U-21534 rate case urging the Commission to reject DTE’s projected test year, numerous unsupported capital expenditures, inflated O&M and ROE, and several rate design, IRM, and TEP proposals as inconsistent with cost causation and just and reasonable rates.

Key Points

• •Challenges use of projected costs as test year basis
• •Opposes recovery of inadequately supported capital and distribution expenditures
• •Recommends ROE cap at 9.6% and rejects inflated O&M, including incentive pay and inflation assumptions
• •Argues certain rate design and capacity cost allocation proposals conflict with cost causation
• •Urges rejection of DTE’s infrastructure recovery mechanism extension and MEIU TEP societal benefits proposal