(a) The Commission may authorize an electric company to recover, as additional rate stabilization costs, the actual cost to the electric company of carrying the deferred expenses as regulatory assets under short-term and long-term deferral plans.
(b) The actual cost is equal to the deferred expenses as regulatory assets multiplied by the electric company’s cost of debt.
(c) If the electric company secures the debt in accordance with this part, the cost of the secured debt is substituted for the electric company’s cost of debt.
Structure Maryland Statutes
Division I - Public Services and Utilities
Title 7 - Gas, Electric, and Water Companies
Subtitle 5 - Electric Industry Restructuring
Section 7-522 - Filing Rate Stabilization Plan
Section 7-524 - Tariffs Implementing Rate Stabilization Plan; Application for Qualified Rate Order
Section 7-525 - Recovery of Actual Cost of Deferred Expenses
Section 7-526 - Application for Qualified Rate Order
Section 7-527 - Order to Include Costs and Recovery Time Period
Section 7-528 - Effectiveness and Irrevocability; Review
Section 7-529 - Time Limit for Commission's Decision
Section 7-530 - Qualified Rate Stabilization Charges -- Imposition and Collection Are Nonbypassable
Section 7-531 - Commission to Establish Procedures and Time Frames for Review
Section 7-532 - Termination, Expiration, and Extension of Orders
Section 7-533 - Retiring and Refunding Bonds
Section 7-534 - Modified or Additional Qualified Rate Orders
Section 7-535 - Bond Not Debt, Liability, or Pledge of State or Governmental Unit
Section 7-536 - Permissible Provisions of Order
Section 7-537 - Rate Stabilization Property
Section 7-538 - Exemption From Taxes and Charges
Section 7-539 - Status of Agreement as Sale
Section 7-541 - Required Statements in Electric Bills
Section 7-542 - Liens or Assignments of Rate Stabilization Property
Section 7-543 - Successors to Perform and Satisfy Obligations