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File #: 2025-0072   
Type: Informational Items Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 10/17/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/5/2024 Final action:
Title: Power Cost Adjustment Report - September 2024
Attachments: 1. September PCA 2024.pdf
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Submitted By: Marie Brooks

Presentation By: Doug Peebles

Department: Electric Utility

STAFF REPORT:

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Power Cost Adjustment Report - September 2024

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OCALA’S RELEVANT STRATEGIC GOALS:

Fiscally Sustainable

PROOF OF PUBLICATION:

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BACKGROUND:

The Power Cost Adjustment (PCA) rate is the mechanism by which the positive and negative fluctuations in the cost of power are passed through to the customer.  Power costs and sales are reviewed monthly to project over or under-collections for the year.  While the PCA can be adjusted as often as monthly, the recent practice has been to make minimal adjustments to maintain stable customer rates.

As requested by the City Council, a monthly report on the projected over or under-collection of the PCA is attached.

 

On October 15, 2024, staff participated in a rate call with the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA).  Based on rate projections at that time and our sales projections, an over-collection of $15,215,541 will be recorded for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024. This over-collection will assist in recovering and replenishing Rate Stabilization Reserve funds.


The current balance in the rate stabilization reserve is $12,945,306, approximately 12 percent of the $108.5 million Fiscal Year 2023-24 fuel costs. The policy sets the rate stabilization reserve funding range at 15 to 25 percent of projected fuel costs.  The Fiscal Year 2023-24 over-collection will be transferred and used to return the rate stabilization reserve fund back to compliance status.