Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate
Customer Impact Analysis
of House Bill 11 of 2019
(Representative Customer By Class)

Annual Usage (1)

Annual Impact RY 2019
$6.96/MWh Tier III
AEC (2)
(0.348 cents/kWh) (5)

Annual Impact Ceiling
$7.904/MWh Tier III
AEC (3)
(0.3952 cents/kWh) (5)

Annual Impact Floor
$6.08/MWh Tier III
AEC (4)
(0.304 cents/kWh) (5)

Customer Information

kWh

Average Residential Customer

10,200

$35

$40

$31

Small Commercial
(Example: Convenience Store)

380,000

$1,322

$1,502

$1,155

Medium Commercial
(Example: Big Box Retail)

1,000,000

$3,480

$3,952

$3,040

Large Hospital/Medium
Manufacturer

18,000,000

$62,640

$71,136

$54,720

Industrial Customer/University
Campus

200,000,000

$696,000

$790,400

$608,000

(1) The kWh amounts are representative of statewide average usage for the type of customer. Annual impact amounts are rounded.
(2) Reporting Year (RY) is June1 through May 31. $6.96 Tier III AECs price based on calendar year 2018 Pennsylvania Tier I AEC
forward prices for each week for reporting years 2019/2020, 2020/2021, and 2021/2022 as reported in Spectrometer Reports.
(3) The Ceiling Price is calculated as 65% of $12.16, the weighted average price paid for Tier I AECs by Pennsylvania suppliers as
reported in the Public Utility Commission's 2017 Annual Report of Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act of 2004, p. 43, Table 2.
(4) The Floor Price is calculated as 50% of $12.16, the weighted average price paid for Tier I AECs by Pennsylvania suppliers as
reported in the Public Utility Commission's 2017 Annual Report of Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act of 2004, p. 43, Table 2.
(5) The cents per kWh figure is derived by assessing the Tier III AEC price on 50% of the annual usage.
March 22, 2019 (268511)