UNDERTAKINGS
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UNDERTAKING #      DESCRIPTION
U - 1   Date: January 14, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: K. McShane
      - Transcript Reference: January 14, 2013- Pg 47-48, Lines 20-25 & 1-8
Undertake to file a copy of ( Ms. McShane's) direct evidence filed in the 2009 AUC General Cost of Capital proceeding
     
U - 2   Date: January 14, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: K. McShane
      - Transcript Reference: January 14, 2013 -Pg 99, Lines 17-25
Undertake to provide an update of column to January 2013 (of information provided in BC testimony, pg 47 –Table 8)
     
U - 3   Date: January 14, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: K. McShane
     
Please determine Ms. McShane's signed confidentiality agreement in relation to a report from Mercer canada Limited filed in the BCUC cost of capital proceeding in 2012
     
U - 4   Date: January 14, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: K McShane
      - Transcript Reference: January 14, 2013 Pg 179, Lines 11-18
Provide the average rish premium when treasury yields were below 4 percent outside of the period from September 2008 to March 2009.
     
U - 5   Date: January 14, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: K. McShane
      - Transcript Reference: January 14, 2013 Pg 196-197, Lines 21-25 and 1-3
Please provide Page 49 of 67 and Schedule 10 from Ms. McShane's October 2002 report to the Board for Newfoundland Power.
     
U - 6   Date: January 14, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: K. McShane
      - Transcript Reference: January 14, 2013 -Pg 198, Lines 3-9
Undertake to provide pages 47 and 48 and Schedule 15 and 16 from Ms. McShane's evidence filed in Newfoundland Power's 2007 GRA
     
U - 7   Date: January 14, 2013
Requested by: During Cross Examination Kathleen McShane
Witness: Consumer Advocate agreed to provide
      - Transcript Reference: January 14, 2013 -Pg 211, Lines 12-15
Reference to Information Item #10 - Consumer Advocate agreed to provide full response.
     
U - 8   Date: January 15, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: J. Perry
      - Transcript Reference: January 15, 2013 -Pg 76, Lines 5-17
Re: 2010F numbers re consulting fees in Table 2 of CA-NP-141
Referring to material adverse clause removed from Newfoundland Power's credit agreement
..filing the clause stated as an undertaking
     
U - 9   Date: January 15, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: J. Perry
      - Transcript Reference: January 15, 2013 -Pg 128, Lines 10-17
... confirm by undertaking what the discount rate would be ---the change in the discount rate down to closer- did you say to 4.5 from 4.9?
     
U - 10
  Date: January 15, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: J. Perry
      - Transcript Reference: January 15, 2013 -Pg 153, lines 20-25 and Page 154, Lines 1-13
...asked to...undertake to provide most recent presentations to each of DBRS and Moody's?
NOTE: Undertaking not provided - Mr Kelly to take under consideration.
2012-01-16 Preliminary matters- Mr. Kelly advised that NP will be filing information
     
U - 11
  Date: January 16, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: J. Perry
      - Transcript Reference: January 16, 2013 -Pg 16, lines 10-13
Can you provide ...a copy of ( Mercers reports that provides the 2013 and 2014 OPEB's expense numbers
     
U - 12
  Date: January 16, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: K. McShane
      - Transcript Reference: January 16, 2013 -Pg 117, lines 13-16
...undertake to provide the 2011 revenues of the various breakdowns of Vectren
     
U - 13
  Date: January 16, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: K. McShane
      - Transcript Reference: January 16, 2013 -Pg 118, lines 13-16
...undertake to provide the 2011 figures for Wisconsin Energy both, electric subs and gas subs...
     
U - 14
  Date: January 16, 2013
Requested by: During Cross Examination Kathleen McShane
Witness: Consumer Advocate agreed to provide
      - Transcript Reference: January 16, 2013 -Pg 168, lines 22-23
Reference to Decision of REGIE - Consumer advocate agreed to provide full response.
     
U - 15
  Date: January 17, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: Dr. J. H. Vander Weide
      - Transcript Reference: January 17, 2013 -Pg 17, Lines 8-12
Undertake to file your last case in the United States, including all your written testimony, where you set out a summary of your cost of equity results?
     
U - 16
  Date: January 17, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: Dr. J. H. Vander Weide
      - Transcript Reference: January 17, 2013 -Pg 1057, Lines 10-14
Can you file with us by way of an undertaking the evidence, including all exhibits that you filed before the British Columbia Utilities Commission on behalf of Terasen (Gas) in May of 2009?
     
U - 17
  Date: January 18, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: T. MacDonald
      - Transcript Reference: January 18, 2013 -Pg 215Lines 13-25
...provide analysis (of your suggested formula to determine whether would have been given approximately the same rate of return on equity to Newfoundland Power) since inception of the formula in this jurisdiction.
     
U - 18
  Date: January 18, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: T. MacDonald
      - Transcript Reference: January 18, 2013 -Pg 221, Lines 22-25 and 222, Lines 1-7
... Confirm where your data came from ... if it came from Bloomberg, and the series number from Bloomberg...
     
U - 19
  Date: January 18, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: T. MacDonald
      - Transcript Reference: January 18, 2013 -Pg 225, Lines 9-19
(...Re: source did you consult to determine how the risk premium returns on stock minus returns on bonds) What source document it was expressed as ERP as return on stocks minus return on bonds?
     
U - 20
  Date: January 23, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: J. Wiedmayer
      - Transcript Reference: January 23, 2013 – Pg 75, Line 22 to Pg 80, Line 14
      (Re: Table 1, Exhibit R1 of Newfoundland Power’s Rebuttal Testimony)
      …provide an undertaking as to which of the companies under each column would be clients of Gannet Fleming…
     
U - 21
  Date: January 23, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: J. Wiedmayer
      - Transcript Reference: January 23, 2013 – Pg 75, Line 22 to Pg 81, Line 13
      (Re: Table 1, Exhibit R1 of Newfoundland Power’s Rebuttal Testimony)
      …comment as to whether you think based upon the companies in this listing, that there’s, in fact, more customers who
      rates reflect ALG procedure on this list than customers whose rates reflect the ELG procedure…
     
U - 22
  Date: January 23, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: J. Wiedmayer
      - Transcript Reference: January 23, 2013 – Pg 102, Line 17 to Pg 109, Line 2
      (Re. Figure 7, Pg 15, Appendix B of John Wiedmayer’s Expert Rebuttal Evidence)
      …undertake to file a revised Figure 7 outlining what you now believe to be the true retirement picture for underground
      cables and switches?
     
U - 23
  Date: January 23, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: J. Wiedmayer
      - Transcript Reference: January 23, 2013 – Pg 130, Line 13 to Pg 141, Line 24
      (Re. Page A-42 of Gannett Fleming Depreciation Study)
      …provide what the longer life expectancy would be for the 1967 to 2009 band…a comparison between the 1948 to 2009
      experience band compared with the ’67 to 2009 experience band…Placement and the experience band for 1967 to
      2009.
     
U - 24
  Date: January 25, 2013
Requested by: Consumer Advocate
Witness: G. Smith
      - Transcript Reference: January 25, 2013 – Pgs 75,76 & 77 lines 1-5
      Re: Installation program
      …undertake to provide what the targets are for those on a customer level?
     
     
     


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