Hearing - E-01933A-25-0103 - Tucson Electric Power Company **Tucson**
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What procedural matters and witness availability are addressed at the start of this segment?
Go ahead and get started and let's go back on the record. Welcome back everyone to the Arizona Corporation Commission. This is day nine and the continuation of the hearing in TEP's rate case. Uh docket ending twenty five. Zero one zero three. Um as we indicated last week, we're not gonna keep um noting appearances for the record. We will see if anyone has procedural issues this morning and I do know that Miss Reyes does, so we will start with her.
Yes, good morning, your honor. I I do find um earlier this morning that my witness for sweep, Will Green, has had a serious family emergency and had to travel out of state. Uh I'm still working with him to hopefully be able to do his testimony as scheduled on Friday morning. Um, I did notify the company. Um, if he is able to go Friday morning, it would have to be um via WebEx from out of state. And it would have to be hope first thing hopefully so that he could just kind of get in and get out. Um, but there is a small possibility he may have to be moved in the schedule to potentially next week, which I know is not ideal for anyone. But hopefully there could be some flexibility given their circumstances.
Um and I hope to have an answer by maybe after lunch or at the end of the day.
Okay. Thank you, Miss Reyes, for letting us know, and we certainly hope that everything Works out for Mr. Green and his family and we will do everything possible to accommodate um what needs to happen there.
Thank you so much.
And Friday is an eight thirty start, so we would be able to theoretically be able to start fairly early with him and and hopefully get that done pretty quickly. But if it has to move into next week then that's um what will have to happen. Okay, thank you so much. Of course. All right, Mr. Black?
Uh yes, good morning, Your Honor. Um as as Mr. Patton noted, um I do have a something in my ankle and I couldn't drive this morning. Uh but I am available to cross examine Mr. Dang if he does come on. I just wanted to make sure that um We're not postponing them on my account at at all.
Okay. Thank you for letting us know, Mr. Black. All right, anything procedural from anyone else?
Uh yes, Your Honor, this is uh Kirk Bain with Kroger. Um can I ask the company, what is the current thinking on when I know Mr. Elliott was was bumped to this week. What is the current thinking on when he would he would go on? I I think the discussion on Friday was he would probably go this Friday. And probably not much sooner than that, given uh Mr. Smith is up. And then we have also Mr. Rodemacher to finish at some point if we have time at the end of the day on Wednesday. Thank you.
Okay. And we'll continue to sort of do a recap at the end of every day of what we think is coming next, but we'll keep plugging forward for now. Anything procedural or preliminary from anyone in the room? Nope. And I don't have anything either, so let's go ahead and get started. Mr. Nelson, you can call your witness.
Thank you and good morning. The AZLCG and Freeport would call Mr David Garrett.
Right. Good morning, Mr. Garrett. Can you please raise your right hand?
Good morning.
Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
I do. Uh Mr Gare, can you just uh didn't sound like it, but can you just make sure that your green light is on on your microphone and that the microphone is placed very close to your mouth?
Is that better?
Can you hear that okay? Yes. Thank you. Mr Garrett, would you please state and spell your name for the record?
My name is David Garrett, G A R R E T T. Mr Garrett, by whom are you employed and in what capacity? I'm the managing member of Resolve Utility Consulting.
And on whose behalf have you filed testimony in this proceeding?
The Arizona Large Customer Group and Freeport Minerals Corporation.
Mr Garrett, on behalf of those entities, did you cause to be filed what's been marked for identification as exhibit A Z L C G Freeport One, which is your direct testimony in this case?
Yes.
And on behalf of those entities, did you also uh cause to be filed what's been marked for identification as exhibit A Z L C Freeport two, which is your sur rebuttal testimony in this case?
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Agenda
8 items
1
What procedural matters and witness availability are addressed at the start of this segment?
0:00–19:54
2
How does the discussion shift to cost‑of‑equity methodology, CAPM, beta, and equity risk premium?
19:54–1:02:53
3
What arguments are made about fairness, ROE, capital‑structure adjustments, and their impact on ratepayers?
1:02:53–2:12:29
4
Why do utilities struggle to achieve high earnings growth compared to high‑growth tech firms?
2:12:29–2:19:22
5
What is a defensive stock and why are utilities considered defensive?
2:19:22–2:42:53
6
How does the proposed ARAM (annual rate adjustment mechanism) change rate design and cost allocation?
2:42:53–4:42:55
7
How does the proposed rate design affect customer bills?
4:42:55–5:01:48
8
What is the non‑coincident peak (NCP) methodology and how is it applied?
5:01:48–7:04:01
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