BAD DEBT

• 15.Absent any COVID-19 impacts, Enbridge Gas estimates that it will incur approximately $2.58 million in incremental bad debt expenses in 2021 based on forecasted costs recoverable from customers as a result of the GGPPA, as set out in Exhibit B. While Enbridge Gas has included total 2021 forecast bad debt costs in Table C-1, only actual bad debt related to the GGPPA will be recorded in the GGEADAs for each rate zone.
  
  
• 16.Ongoing COVID-19 related conditions may impact bad debt related to the GGPPA beyond what Enbridge Gas would typically forecast. Consistent with the OEB’s Decision and Order on Enbridge Gas’s 2020 Application, Enbridge Gas will record bad debt expenses for the FCPP related to the COVID-19 emergency in the COVID-specific sub-account so that all matters related to the COVID-19 emergency are recorded in the same account.13

OTHER MISCELLANEOUS COSTS

• 17.Enbridge Gas expects to incur approximately $0.16 million in other miscellaneous costs for customer outreach and communications, training, conferences, travel expenses, memberships and subscriptions associated with the GGPPA or other GHG or carbon pricing programs in 2021.

13 EB-2019-0247, OEB Decision and Order, August 13, 2020, p. 11.