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FAC increases this month
The Commonwealth Utilities Corp.’s fuel adjustment charge in March has gone up, according to a notice last Friday.
CUC says it has been notified by its fuel supplier, Mobil Oil Mariana Islands Inc., that there has been an increase in the average international fuel prices which will affect CUC’s fuel adjustment charge.
As a result, the current FAC rate of $0.17624 per kWh has increased to $0.19213 per kWh effective March 1, 2019.
Residential customers who use 500 kWh of power per month will pay approximately $7.95 more in their monthly billing.
The FAC is one of two components that make up the CUC electric kWh rate, which is used to purchase fuel. The second component is the CUC base rate, which is used to fund operations, projects, and debt service. This base rate has not been increased since April 17, 2014.
CUC is required, pursuant to an order previously issued by the Commonwealth Public Utilities Commission, to adjust (up or down) the FAC pass-through rate when the Mean of Platts Singapore monthly pricing equals or exceeds a 4.5 percent differential of the average per gallon cost of fuel used in the calculation of the current FAC rate.
CUC first instituted the Levelized Energy Adjustment Clause in 2009 to recover fuel and fuel related costs, a system also used by power providers in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In May 2015, the CPUC authorized CUC to change the name of LEAC to FAC to provide customers a more accurate description of the electric rate. (PR)
