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The method defers the rates intended to recover allowable costs beyond the period in which those allowable costs would be charged to expense under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) applicable to entities in general. The method defers the rates intended to recover allowable costs beyond the period in which those rates would have been ordered under the rate-making methods routinely used prior to 1982 by that regulator for similar allowable costs of that regulated entity.\"><span>phase-in plans</span></a>.</div></div>","snippet":"This Subtopic provides guidance for deferred costs for entities with regulated operations, including phase-in plans.","pending":false,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:29931d9c4af30ec4e4c3e637d45fbdad6cedb254aee72d89157a02a4201b6340","downloaded_from":"2026-09-09T23:59:43.170Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-09T23:59:43.170Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147477838","source_sha256":"25fd6f5a7818b1ed64ec9961d9c07532f1e17a59be0ba18488a128e935bd9871"}}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:ee9ffd2ccbedf65b649a78d038ab2f99574e02d29feec95fa935578fa4f58ce4","downloaded_from":"2026-09-09T23:59:43.170Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-09T23:59:43.170Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147477838","source_sha256":"25fd6f5a7818b1ed64ec9961d9c07532f1e17a59be0ba18488a128e935bd9871"}},{"block":null,"heading":"Phase-In Plans","paragraphs":[{"citation":"340-980-05-2","para":"05-2","html":"<div class=\"asc-body\"><div class=\"norm-text\"><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_44A20CD3-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">When a utility places a newly completed plant in service, traditional rate-making procedures establish rates to recover the <a href=\"/glossary/a/#allowable-costs\" class=\"term\" title=\"All costs for which revenue is intended to provide recovery. Those costs can be actual or estimated. In that context, allowable costs include interest cost and amounts provided for earnings on shareholders' investments.\"><span>allowable costs</span></a> of that plant. </span></span><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_44A20E64-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">A combination of circumstances can cause traditional rate-making procedures to result in a phenomenon called rate spike, which is a major, one-time increase in rates that can result from the inclusion of the cost of new plants in rates under traditional rate-making procedures. </span></span></div></div>","snippet":"When a utility places a newly completed plant in service, traditional rate-making procedures establish rates to recover the allowable costs of that plant. 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Those plans are intended to moderate the initial increase in rates that would otherwise result from placing newly completed plants in service by deferring some of that rate increase to future years and providing the utility with return on investment for those deferred amounts. Instead of the traditional pattern of an increase in allowable costs followed by decreasing allowable costs for utility plants after the plants are placed in service, phase-in plans create a pattern of gradually increasing allowable costs for the initial years of the plant's service life. </span></span></div></div>","snippet":"Phase-in plans were developed to alleviate the problem of rate spike. 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