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ORDER NO. PSC -2018 -0372 -TRF -EI DOCKET NO. 20180123 -El PAGE 2 Service Demand — 1 (GSD -1) class customers. DEF states in its petition that it can provide better customer service by extending the budget billing to commercial customers without affecting the general body of ratepayers. Budget billing is an optional program that allows customers to reduce the variations in monthly bills that result from seasonal fluctuations in the usage of electricity. This leveling of the bill allows customers to more easily budget their electricity expenses. The methodology for determining the monthly budget bill for commercial customers will be the same as the methodology for determining the monthly budget bill for residential customers. The customer is billed based upon an average of their last 12 months' kilowatt-hour (kWh) usage, rather than for their actual monthly usage. The amount billed using the average method is subtracted from the amount which would have been billed based on actual usage. This difference is credited to a deferred balance account which maintains a running total of overcollection and undercollection. DEF recalculates the monthly budget billing amount every third month using the most recent 12 months' billings plus any deferred balances. If the difference between the current and the newly calculated monthly budget billing amount is greater than 10 percent, the monthly budget billing amount will be re- established. Customers may request termination of the budget billing at any time. Upon termination of the plan or disconnection of service, the customer must settle the account in full. Once the customer has been terminated, the customer may not rejoin the plan for 12 months. The residential budget billing tariff provision is currently included on residential tariff sheet No. 6.121. DEF proposed to include the residential budget billing tariff provision, together with the proposed commercial budget billing provision, in its general rules and regulations section of its tariff, as shown in Attachment A. Conclusion We have reviewed DEF's petition for approval of its budget billing for its commercial customers and determined that participation in the program is optional and will provide DEF's commercial customers with benefits of budget billing that are currently available to its residential customers. Therefore, we approve DEF's petition for approval of budget billing for commercial customers, effective on July 10, 2018. Based on the foregoing, it is ORDERED by the Florida Public Service Commission that Duke Energy Florida LLC's petition for approval of budget billing for commercial customers is approved and the proposed tariffs shall become effective on July 10, 2018. ORDERED that if a protest is filed within 21 days of issuance of the Order, the tariff shall remain in effect with any charges held subject to refund pending resolution of the protest. It is further