Filings
Rates or COS
Acronyms
Who Does What
Data
100

This clause has had the most mid-course corrections in the past 5 years.

What is the fuel clause? 

100

This rate, implemented during the last rate case, is for our non-residential customers with billing demands over 1,000 kW at least once over the past 12 months.

Acceptable Responses:
What is GSLD and/or what is SBLD?
What is General Service Large Demand and/or what is Standby Large Demand?
Also: What is GSLDPR or GSLDSU or GSLDTPR or GSLDTSU?

100

The FPSC is the regulatory agency we work with most often.

What is the Florida Public Service Commission?

100

These regulatory team members work frequently with AMI Operations, Customer Experience and Meter Operations.

Who are Katy and Kim?

100

The Load Research department works with this data most frequently as required by the Florida Public Service Commission. 

What is 15-minute interval meter data? 

200
Filed quarterly, this FPSC document includes any optional provision energy purchases for the GSLM2 and GSLM3 rider customers.
What is the Interruptible Filing?
200

This assembled volume containing rules, regulations, and rate schedules is a contract between Tampa Electric and its customers.

What is Tampa Electric’s Tariff?

200

The FRCC is a Florida regulatory agency focused on whether utilities can consistently meet the demand for electricity while maintaining acceptable levels of safety and quality of service. 

What is the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council?

200

The "Sheriff of the Tariff" is another common name for this individual.

Who is Lisa Grant.

200

This term is used to describe all items necessary for calculating a customer's bill.

What are billing determinants?

300

This annual FPSC filing requires Tampa Electric to report on its customers who own renewable generation systems.

What is the net metering and interconnection report?

Also acceptable: Either the phrase, "net metering" or "interconnection" "report" or "filing".

300

When a GS customer exceeds 9,000 kWh consumption in a given month, an obligatory switch to one of these two rate schedule occurs.

What are GSD or GSDO?

Also Acceptable:

What is General Service Demand?
What is General Service Demand Optional?

300

In the world of NERC Compliance, you may hear the acronym of PNC.

What is "Potential Non-Compliance"?

300

These Tallahassee attorneys are included in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 edition. 

Who are Malcolm Means and Jeffry Wahlen?

300
The data - in dollars - the Forecasting team prepares each year for the budget.

What are revenues?

400

This filing containing customer load statistics is submitted every three years to the Florida Public Service Commission.

What is the Load Research Report? And/or What is the Load Research Sample Plan?

400

This section of Tampa Electric's tariff that contains an index of rate schedules. 

What is Section 6?

400

The ECRC, not to be confused with ECCR, is filed annually and refers to one of Tampa Electric's clauses.

What is the Environmental Cost Recovery Clause?

Double points if you know what ECCR stands for: Energy Conservation Cost Recovery

400

The regulatory compliance team reports to this Director.

Who is Jordan Williams?

400

This study allocates costs to the different rate classes and becomes the basis for the rates we charge.

What is the Cost of Service analysis?

500

These two Tampa Electric clauses are filed under the same docket number with the FPSC.

What is the: 

1) FUEL & PURCHASED POWER COST RECOVERY and 2) CAPACITY COST RECOVERY Filings?

Also acceptable: What is the Fuel and Capacity filing?

500

The Minimum Distribution System concept classifies distribution costs into these two buckets.


What are Demand and Customer-related costs

500

The acronym that stands for the internet-based system to obtain electric power transmission services in North America.

What is OASIS?

 
Double Points if you know what is stands for:
Open Access Same-Time Information System

500

These team members ensure all filings are assigned to be completed and filed with the appropriate agency by their respective due dates.

Who is the regulatory coordination team?


Also acceptable:
Who is Paula Brown, Tison Vega, Brenda Irizarry, Kayla Cutting, Ty Nelson and Dashira Silvestre?

500

These tests, used to establish DSM [Demand-side Management] goals, allow the accomplishment of significant DSM development without placing undue upward pressure on rates.  

What is the RIM test? or Ratepayer Impact Measure (RIM) Test (previously the Non-Participant Test)? 

Also acceptable:

What is the PCT test? or Participant Cost Test?