Sec. 9. (a) Subject to subsection (d), a public utility that provides electric or gas utility service may file with the commission rate schedules establishing a TDSIC that will allow the periodic automatic adjustment of the public utility’s basic rates and charges to provide for timely recovery of eighty percent (80%) of approved capital expenditures and TDSIC costs. The petition must:

(1) use the customer class revenue allocation factor based on firm load approved in the public utility’s most recent retail base rate case order;

(2) include the public utility’s TDSIC plan for eligible transmission, distribution, and storage system improvements; and

(3) identify projected effects of the plan described in subdivision (2) on retail rates and charges.

The public utility shall provide a copy of the petition to the office of the utility consumer counselor when the petition is filed with the commission.

     (b) The public utility shall update the public utility’s TDSIC plan under subsection (a)(2) at least annually. An update may include a petition for approval of:

(1) a targeted economic development project under section 11 of this chapter; or

(2) transmission, distribution, and storage system improvements not described in the public utility’s TDSIC plan most recently approved by the commission under section 10 of this chapter.

     (c) A public utility that recovers capital expenditures and TDSIC costs under subsection (a) shall defer the remaining twenty percent (20%) of approved capital expenditures and TDSIC costs, including depreciation, allowance for funds used during construction, and post in service carrying costs, and shall recover those capital expenditures and TDSIC costs as part of the next general rate case that the public utility files with the commission.

     (d) Except as provided in section 15 of this chapter, a public utility may not file a petition under subsection (a) within nine (9) months after the date on which the commission issues an order changing the public utility’s basic rates and charges with respect to the same type of utility service.

     (e) A public utility that implements a TDSIC under this chapter shall, before the expiration of the public utility’s approved TDSIC plan, petition the commission for review and approval of the public utility’s basic rates and charges with respect to the same type of utility service.

     (f) A public utility may file a petition under this section not more than one (1) time every six (6) months.

     (g) Actual capital expenditures and TDSIC costs that exceed the approved capital expenditures and TDSIC costs require specific justification by the public utility and specific approval by the commission before being authorized for recovery in customer rates.

As added by P.L.133-2013, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.89-2019, SEC.3.