Briton Baxter
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3,030 appearances
30 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Briton Baxter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Relative to the amount of volume that Santa Cruz in total provides to its customers, yes, it could be a relatively insignificant amount.
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Yes, which is why we tend to lean towards more of a cost benefit analysis approach rather than a hard line stance.
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Thank you.
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Correct.
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So it came to light as the company was preparing to file these rate cases that some of the infrastructure, and I believe it was some of the mains, had actually been included in rate base several rate cases ago.
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Um so to address that oversight, and I believe it it was just an accounting error where in their accounting system somebody clicked the wrong button and it was put into rate base.
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Um nobody caught it.
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None of the parties in the last rate case caught it.
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So the company brought it to the commission to pass through a bill credit to their customers through the pendency of the Palaverdi rate case.
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So in the settlement agreement, there was the withdrawal of the Palaverdi rate case with the stipulation to provide additional relief.
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to the Palo Verde customers as part of the agreement.
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Correct.
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Subject to check, that sounds about right.
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I I do.
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Um however, of course I didn't tell any of the parties about this, but sitting here today with I
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I I didn't tell you the thought I had sitting here today.
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it's not a good thing.
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Um originally after the prehearing conference, I thought f in the sake of judicial
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judicial efficiency, we could maybe address that through the Rue in this case.
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However, with the withdrawal of the Palo Verde rate case already being granted, I'm not sure if there's a path to be able to accomplish that anymore because that was a Palo Verde specific decision for the bill credit.
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