Common use of By Recipient Clause in Contracts

By Recipient. By: --------------------------------- Name Title By ServiceCo: CENTERPOINT ENERGY SERVICE COMPANY, LLC By: ------------------------ Name Title EXHIBIT I COST ACCUMULATION AND ASSIGNMENT, ALLOCATION METHODS, AND DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES OFFERED BY SERVICECO TO RECIPIENT This document sets forth the methodologies used to accumulate the costs of services that may be performed by ServiceCo and to assign or allocate such costs to other subsidiaries and business units within the CenterPoint registered holding company system that receive services from ServiceCo. Cost of Services Performed ServiceCo shall maintain an accounting system that enables costs to be identified by Cost Center, Account Number or Capital Project ("Account Codes"). The primary inputs to the accounting system shall be payroll records for ServiceCo's employees, accounts payable transactions and journal entries. Charges for labor shall be made at the employees' effective hourly rate, including the cost of pensions, other employee benefits and payroll taxes. To the extent practicable, costs of services shall be directly assigned to the applicable Account Codes. The full cost of providing services shall also include certain indirect costs, e.g., departmental overheads, administrative and general costs, and taxes. Indirect costs shall be associated with the services performed in proportion to the directly assigned costs of the services or other relevant cost allocators. Cost Assignment and Allocation ServiceCo's costs shall be directly assigned, distributed or allocated to Recipients in the manner described below:

By Recipient. By: --------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Name Title By ServiceCo: CENTERPOINT ENERGY SERVICE COMPANY, LLC By: ------------------------ ------------------------------------- Name Title EXHIBIT I COST ACCUMULATION AND ASSIGNMENT, ALLOCATION METHODS, AND DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES OFFERED BY SERVICECO TO RECIPIENT This document sets forth the methodologies used to accumulate the costs of services that may be performed by ServiceCo and to assign or allocate such costs to other subsidiaries and business units within the CenterPoint registered holding company system that receive services from ServiceCo. Cost of Services Performed ServiceCo shall maintain an accounting system that enables costs to be identified by Cost Center, Account Number or Capital Project ("Account Codes"). The primary inputs to the accounting system shall be payroll records for ServiceCo's employees, accounts payable transactions and journal entries. Charges for labor shall be made at the employees' effective hourly rate, including the cost of pensions, other employee benefits and payroll taxes. To the extent practicable, costs of services shall be directly assigned to the applicable Account Codes. The full cost of providing services shall also include certain indirect costs, e.g., departmental overheads, administrative and general costs, and taxes. Indirect costs shall be associated with the services performed in proportion to the directly assigned costs of the services or other relevant cost allocators. Cost Assignment and Allocation ServiceCo's costs shall be directly assigned, distributed or allocated to Recipients in the manner described below: