HomeMy WebLinkAboutPO 7320: CENTERPOINT ENERGY RESOURCES CORP P. O. No. 7320
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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS,
SUSPENDING THE RATES PROPOSED BY CENTERPOINT
ENERGY RESOURCES CORP., D/B/A CENTERPOINT ENERGY
ENTEX AND CENTERPOINT ENERGY TEXAS GAS COMPANY'S
GAS RELIABILITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM FILING
MADE WITH THE CITY ON OR ABOUT FEBRUARY 18, 2025;
FINDING THAT THE MEETING COMPLIES WITH THE OPEN
MEETINGS ACT; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND
PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT, AND DECLARING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS,on or about February 18,2025, CenterPoint Energy Resources Corp.,
d/b/a CenterPoint Energy Entex and CenterPoint Energy Texas Gas ("CenterPoint" or
"Company") filed an Annual Gas Reliability Infrastructure Program("GRIP") adjustment
with the City of Port Arthur ("City") to increase gas rates in the Beaumont/East Texas
geographic rate area pursuant to Gas Utility Regulatory Act, TEX. UTIL. CODE ("Gas
Utility Regulatory Act") § 104.301; and
WHEREAS, the Company proposed an effective date of April 19, 2025, for the
requested increase unless the City suspends the date for a period no longer than forty-five
(45)days; and
WHEREAS, the City has exclusive original jurisdiction over the rates, operations
and services of a gas utility in areas in the municipality pursuant to Gas Utility Regulatory
Act § 103.001; and
WHEREAS, Gas Utility Regulatory Act § 104.301 requires a streamlined process
for the recovery of the costs of incremental investment by a gas utility; and
WHEREAS, the City's review of CenterPoint's GRIP filing is limited to a
ministerial review of the filing for compliance with the statute; and
WHEREAS,the City finds the need to suspend the effective date of CenterPoint's
requested rate increase for 45 days beyond the Company's proposed effective date until
June 3, 2025, in order to review the Company's filing for compliance with Gas Utility
Regulatory Act § 104.301; and
WHEREAS,the reasonableness of the Company's investment will be reviewed in
CenterPoint's future base rate case where all costs included in CenterPoint's GRIP filing
will be subject to refund.
NOW THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF PORT ARTHUR,TEXAS:
Section 1. That the statement and findings set out in the preamble to this
ordinance are hereby in all things approved and adopted.
Section 2. That the effective date of the Company's proposed GRIP rate
increase, and the proposed tariffs related thereto, is hereby suspended until June 3, 2025.
Section 3. That to the extent the City finds that the rates proposed by
CenterPoint's filing comply with Gas Utility Regulatory Act § 104.301,then the rates will
become effective by operation of law on June 3, 2025.
Section 4. That the meeting at which the ordinance was approved was in all
things conducted in strict compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas
Government Code, Chapter 551.
Section 5. That this Ordinance shall become effective from and after its
passage.
READ, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED, this day of March, 2025, A.D., at a
Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Port Arthur, Texas by the following
vote: AYES:
Mayor:
Councilmembers:
NOES:
Thurman Bill Bartie, Mayor
ATTEST:
Sherri Bellard, City Secretary
APPROVED AS
Roxann Pais Cotroneo, City Attorney
APPROVED 5 R ADMINISTRATION:
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Ron Burton, P► , City Manager