THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY, DBA EVERSOURCE ENERGY
SYSTEMS BENEFITS COST ADJUSTMENT
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The Systems Benefits Cost Adjustment shall adjust the Systems Benefits Charge (SBC),
annually, on a fully reconciling basis to all applicable customers taking service under the
Company’s rates, to recover or refund the difference between certain components of the
Company’s Systems Benefits Charge and the Company’s systems benefits costs from the prior
period, as approved by the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (the “Department”).
The components of the SBC subject to this adjustment are:
Public Education Outreach Program
Gross Earnings Tax
Hardship protection costs (bad debt reimbursed to energy suppliers)
Payment to towns to offset property tax revenue reductions
Changes in payments to resource recovery authorities
Displaced worker protection costs
Conservation Restriction - Candlewood Lake
Prior Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal Costs
Low Income Conservation Programs
MP1 post retirement safe shutdown and site protection
Decommissioning fund contributions
Summer Saver Program
Each adjustment of the prices under the Company’s applicable rates shall be in accordance
with a notice filed with the Department setting forth the amount of the applicable Systems
Benefits Cost Adjustment, the amount of the increase or decrease and the effective delivery
charge on the Company’s rates as adjusted to reflect the new Systems Benefits Cost
Adjustment amount. The notice shall further specify the effective date of such adjustment,
which shall not be earlier than thirty days after the filing of the notice, or such other date as the
Department may authorize.
Supersedes Systems Benefits Cost Adjustment
Effective January 1, 2000
By Decision dated October 1, 1999
Docket No. 99-03-36
Systems Benefits Cost Adjustment.02-01-08.DOC
Effective February 1, 2008
by Decision dated January 28, 2008
Docket No. 07-07-01
Revised to Reflect New Trade Name October 1, 2015
Docket No. 14-05-06