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Panhandle | | Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, including its subsidiaries Trunkline, Pan Gas Storage, Panhandle Storage, and Panhandle Holdings. Panhandle was a wholly owned subsidiary of CMS Gas Transmission. The sale of this subsidiary closed in June 2003. |
Parmelia | | A business located in Australia comprised of a pipeline, processing facilities, and a gas storage facility, a former subsidiary of CMS Gas Transmission |
PCB | | Polychlorinated biphenyl |
Peabody Energy | | Peabody Energy Corporation, a non-affiliated company |
Pension Plan | | The trusteed, non-contributory, defined benefit pension plan of Panhandle, Consumers and CMS Energy |
Price Anderson Act | | Price Anderson Act, enacted in 1957 as an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as revised and extended over the years. This act stipulates between nuclear licensees and the U.S. government the insurance, financial responsibility, and legal liability for nuclear accidents. |
PSCR | | Power supply cost recovery |
PURPA | | Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 |
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RCP | | Resource Conservation Plan |
ROA | | Retail Open Access |
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SAB No. 107 | | Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107, Share-Based Payment |
SEC | | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Section 10d(4) Regulatory Asset | | Regulatory asset as described in Section 10d(4) of the Customer Choice Act, as amended |
Securitization | | A financing method authorized by statute and approved by the MPSC which allows a utility to sell its right to receive a portion of the rate payments received from its customers for the repayment of Securitization bonds issued by a special purpose entity affiliated with such utility |
SENECA | | Sistema Electrico del Estado Nueva Esparta C.A., a subsidiary of Enterprises |
SERP | | Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan |
SFAS | | Statement of Financial Accounting Standards |
SFAS No. 5 | | SFAS No. 5, “Accounting for Contingencies” |
SFAS No. 13 | | SFAS No. 13, “Accounting for Leases” |
SFAS No. 71 | | SFAS No. 71, “Accounting for the Effects of Certain Types of Regulation” |
SFAS No. 87 | | SFAS No. 87, “Employers’ Accounting for Pensions” |
SFAS No. 98 | | SFAS No. 98, “Accounting for Leases” |
SFAS No. 106 | | SFAS No. 106, “Employers’ Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions” |
SFAS No. 109 | | SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes” |
SFAS No. 123(R) | | SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment” |
SFAS No. 132(R) | | SFAS No. 132 (revised 2003), “Employers’ Disclosures about Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits” |
SFAS No. 133 | | SFAS No. 133, “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended and interpreted” |