Rate-case process
Litigated or settled rate cases that often produce multi-year rate plans
Utilities file proposed delivery rates. DPS Staff and parties conduct discovery and testimony; the Commission may adopt a litigated outcome or joint proposal with staged rates and reconciliations over multiple years.
Read the official framework ↗Wholesale power market
State rules
Full base-rate reviews set the broad revenue and return framework. Recurring riders, clauses, and reconciliations can change narrower charges between those reviews. These are governing patterns, not filing-date forecasts.
Electric and gas service
Full base-rate review
Electric and gas · Commission-regulated investor-owned electric and natural-gas utilities
Case-specific filings; approved outcomes often span three years
Case-specific filings; approved outcomes often span three years
Rate period: Historic and forecast rate years are stated in each filing and adopted plan.
Governing rule ↗Between full reviews
Electric
Rate-plan reconciliation and surcharges
Annual or plan-specific true-up
Multi-year plans use reconciliations and surcharges between full cases.
Governing source ↗Natural gas
Gas cost adjustment
Periodic adjustment
Commodity gas costs change separately from delivery rates.
Governing source ↗Current activity