ATTACHMENT D
MODIFICATION OF DECISION 01-06-087
Decision (D.) 01-06-087, Attachment A (which in turn modified D.01-05-090, Attachment A) is modified to (a) reflect the replacement of VDRP with DBP, (b) permit firm service level customers who complete their monthly obligation to participate in OBMC subject to some limitation during overlapping events, and (c) permit some customers who opted-out of SCE Schedule I-6 to again become an I-6 customer. Sections 2.4.3, 2.4.9.4, 2.4.9.5, and 2.4.10 are deleted and replaced with the following complete sections. (The changes are underlined for easy identification.)
2.4. Optional Binding Mandatory Curtailment Program
Elements of Optional Binding Mandatory Curtailment (OBMC) Program, which is an alternative to rotating outages, designed to achieve the same load reductions, at times of emergencies, as rotating outages.
2.4.1 The OBMC program exempts participants from rotating outages if they can reduce the load on their entire circuit by the required amount for the entire duration of every rotating outage.
2.4.2 The OBMC program operates only when firm load reductions are required (i.e., concurrent with rotating outages) by the customer's electric distribution utility.
2.4.3 The baseline used to determine if the required load reduction has been obtained will be the average load of the immediate past 10 similar days during the period of the interruption. Similar days are either business days or weekend days and holidays. The 10 similar days will exclude days when the OBMC program operated and paid VDRP or Demand Bidding Program (DBP) load reductions. (The VDRP was replaced by the DBP in July 2001 pursuant to D.01-07-025.) An OBMC participant may exclude the following periods from the 10-day baseline: (a) a period of 15 calendar days designated in advance both for ramp-up and ramp-down of operations during which period the baseline will be the circuit load for the most recent prior day, not the average of the prior 10 similar days; (b) up to 10 days per calendar year as determined by the customer and designated in advance to accommodate conditions in the customer's operations that affect the 10-day baseline' and (c) up to two exclusions from the 10-day baseline where unplanned outages or other events cause the circuit load to deviate substantially from normal conditions. The customer shall provide at least 10 calendar days' prior notice to the utility when exercising option (a); at least seven calendar days' prior notice when exercising option (b); and notice within one calendar day after the outage or event when exercising option (c).
2.4.4 Load reductions will be requested in increments of 5%.
2.4.5 Participants must have the ability to reduce circuit load by 15%. The baseline used to determine if the 15% reduction can be met is the prior years, same month, average peak period usage, adjusted for major changes in facilities. However, the customer must be able to produce at least a 10% load reduction based on the criteria in 2.4.3.
2.4.6 UDCs are required to facilitate circuit aggregation when requested by a customer. In addition, UDCs shall allow individual customers whose facilities are served by more than one circuit to aggregate the load of two such circuits for purposes of the OBMC program, subject to the following limitations:
2.4.6.1. The lead customer shall commit in the OBMC agreement that it has not, and will not, receive any payment from any customer on any OBMC circuit for any action related to the OBMC program.
2.4.6.2. A single customer (with a single tax identification number) must be the lead customer for purposes of the OBMC program for all circuits involved in the circuit aggregation.
2.4.6.3. Participants must have the ability to provide the necessary load reduction in each local geographic area covered by the aggregation.
2.4.6. The failure to reduce load as required will result in penalties equal to $6/kWh for all excess energy, as measured during each half-hour of the rotating outage. If a participant fails to reduce circuit load to within 5% of the required amount, as measured during the entire duration of the rotating outage, on two occasions in any one-year the customer's participation in the program shall be terminated and the customer shall be prohibited from participating in an OBMC program for five years.
2.4.7. Program participants shall pay the cost of any equipment required to participate in the program.
2.4.8. OBMC participants who are the only customers on their circuit may participate in a utility operated capacity interruptible program as long as that program requires the reduction of load to a pre-established firm service level (FSL).
2.4.8.1. Acceptable interruptible programs include but are not limited to the BIP, SCE's I-6, PG&E's E-20 non-firm, and SDG&E's AV-1 and AV-2.
2.4.8.2. If a customer participates in both a capacity interruptible program and the OBMC program, the required OBMC reduction shall be applied to the lower of the 10-day baseline or the customer's FSL. For example, a customer with a FSL of 8 MW and a 10-day baseline of 10 MW that is called for a 10% OBMC reduction would be required to reduce load to 7.2 MW.
2.4.8.3. Only load reductions below the lower of the customer's interruptible FSL and the 10-day baseline are counted toward compliance with the OBMC.
2.4.8.4. When a participant in a capacity interruptible program has completed its monthly or annual obligations under that program, the load reduction requirements in 2.4.9.2 and 2.4.9.3 will no longer apply, except that if an OBMC event is simultaneously in effect at the time that the capacity interruptible program obligations (monthly or annual) are met, then 2.4.9.2 and 2.4.9.3 shall continue to apply until the OBMC event is terminated.
2.4.8.5. An SCE OBMC customer who opted-out of Schedule I-6 in April or May 2001 effective back to November 1, 2000 pursuant to D.01-04-006 may again become a Schedule I-6 customer back to November 1, 2000 at a FSL of the customer's choice. Such customer shall not be subject to Schedule I-6 penalties for May and July 2001, and may also exercise an adjustment in the November 2001 opt-out period.
2.4.9. OBMC participants may participate in the VDRP or DBP program, but shall not be paid for any load reductions occurring during an OBMC call.
2.4.10. OBMC participants shall not participate in the ISO's DRP or in a utility program that aggregates load for the ISO's DRP.
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CHANGES TO CURRENT INTERRUPTIBLE PROGRAMS,
NEW PILOT BASE INTERRUPTIBLE PROGRAM,
AND ESSENTIAL CUSTOMERS
R.00-10-002
1. CHANGES TO CURRENT INTERRUPTIBLE PROGRAMS
1.1 Extend All Programs: All existing interruptible programs are extended until modified or terminated in the rate design phase of each respondent utility's next general rate case or similar proceeding.
1.2 SCE Bill Limiter:
1.2.1 The bill limiter expires on the effective date of this order.
1.2.2 Bill limited customers shall have a 15-day opt-out period. The opt-out shall begin within 30 days of the date of this order. Bill limited customers may opt-out effective the date that the bill limiter ends, or effective with the beginning of their next billing cycle, similar to the opt-out authorized in D.01-04-006. These customers may also opt-out during the next annual opt-out opportunity, in November 2002.
1.2.3 A bill limited customer who opts-out now may enroll in any other interruptible program on a current and going forward basis.
1.3 Scheduled Load Reduction Program: The current tariff shall be modified to provide that "...the energy usage during the on-peak period for the four weekdays following a curtailment, unaffected by program operations and excluding holidays, will be evaluated and cannot exceed the customer's posted baseline amount by more than 15%."
1.4 Optional Binding Mandatory Curtailment Program:
See Attachment D.
1.5 Memorandum Account Balances:
1.5.1. Respondent utilities shall collect memorandum account balances established by D.01-01-056 to track non-compliance penalties from October 1, 2000 through January 25, 2001.
1.5.2. PG&E shall allow its customers to reconcile balances for the period November 1, 2000 through April 30, 2001.
1.5.2.1. The affected customer shall have a 15-day window to make this election, which begins upon notice by PG&E of this option.
1.5.2.2. PG&E shall perform notice of this opportunity on potentially affected customers within 30 days of the date this order is effective.
1.5.2.3. The customer may elect to increase its FSL in whole or part from November 1, 2000 through April 30, 2001, and pay the appropriate firm service level rate for this period.
1.5.2.4. Interruptible service non-compliance penalties for this period shall be refunded if already collected, or billing will cease if bills have been rendered.
1.5.2.5. The election to opt-out in part or whole will not affect the service the customer received, and the bills due, on and after May 1, 2001.
1.5.2.6. The election to opt-out in part or whole does not change the customer's decision in November 2001 to have remained in or opted-out of the interruptible program.
1.5.2.7. Curtailment events during the memorandum account period (October 1, 2000 through January 25, 2001) do not count toward the tolling of compliance for determining the level of non-compliance penalties during the subsequent year.
1.5.2. SDG&E shall allow is customers who were interruptible customers for 12 months or less the option to opt-out on the same terms and conditions as those permitted PG&E customers.
2. PILOT BASE INTERRUPTIBLE PROGRAM: See Attachment A.
3. ESSENTIAL CUSTOMERS
3.1 Category C and Reconfiguring Circuits: Within 60 days, PG&E, SCE and SDG&E shall each file and serve a report. The report shall study circuit reconfiguration options for skilled nursing facilities, consistent with the studies identified in D.01-04-006.
3.2 Category M
3.2.1. Category M shall expire on September 6, 2003.
3.2.2. Customers with Category M status will be notified by August 7, 2003 that the status will expire on September 6, 2003.
3.2.3. Category M shall be removed from the list of essential customers effective September 7, 2003.
3.3 Category H (Water and Sewer Entities)
3.3.1. Within 45 days, respondent utilities shall notify water and sewer customers of Category H.
3.3.2. Within 120 days, respondent utilities shall test Category H notification, exemption and restoration procedures.
3.3.3. Within 60 days of completion of the test, respondent utilities shall file and serve a report on the test.
3.3.4. The report shall also discuss the amount of time necessary to perform exemption or restoration.
3.4 Temperature Sensitive Customers
3.4.1. Respondent utilities shall provide information by bill insert, mass media and other reasonable means on how temperature sensitive customers may protect themselves during period of extreme temperature.
3.4.2. Respondent utilities shall provide an individual, advance warning message of a rotating outage to customers identified as sensitive to extreme temperature. Utilities shall use the application form in Attachment C to identify these customers.
3.4.3. Respondent utilities shall undertake a reasonable effort to identify cooling and heating stations within its service area, and include that information in bill inserts and other media as appropriate.
ADOPTED STUDIES AND REPORTS
1. STUDIES AND REPORTS: Each respondent utility shall file and serve the following reports and studies:
ITEM NO. |
STUDY OR REPORT |
DATE DUE |
1 |
Monthly report on interruptible and outage programs shall continue. (Decision Section 3.2.3.) |
By the 7th of each month |
2 |
Monthly Report by PG&E on PBIP. (Decision Section 3.6.5.3.) |
By the 15th of each month |
3 |
Study of circuit reconfiguration for skilled nursing facilities. (Decision Section 4.2.4.) |
Within 60 days |
4 |
Test and report on Category H. (Decision Sections 4.4.2 and 4.4.5.) |
Test within 120 days; report within 60 days of test |
A. Item 1: Monthly reports shall be filed in this proceeding. They shall be served on Energy Division (three copies), and any party who requests a copy.
A.1. Unless specifically directed otherwise, the monthly report need not be filed or served after the final decision is mailed in the rate design phase of the utility's next general rate case, or other similar proceeding, in which the future of interruptible programs is decided.
A.2. Each respondent utility shall meet with Energy Division to address (a) inclusion of necessary information in compliance with Commission decisions, (b) inclusion of additional information when relevant (e.g., energy supply), and (c) development of a common report and table format.
B. Items 1-4: Each report or study shall be filed in this proceeding, and served on the service list. Service is limited to Energy Division (three copies) and those parties who specifically request a copy. Except for service on the Commission, each respondent utility may serve a Notice of Availability on the service list, even if the report is less than 75 pages, unless a party has previously informed respondent utility of its desire to receive a complete copy. (Rule 2.3 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure.) Item 2 applies to PG&E only. Utilities shall serve a copy of the Category H test report on all participants whether or not participant specifically requests a copy.
2. COMMENTS, RESPONSES, PROTESTS: Parties may file and serve comments, responses or protests to a filed report or study, and shall file and serve such pleadings within 15 days of the date the report or study is filed and served. Respondent utility and other parties may file and serve a reply within 10 days. An Assigned Commissioner or Administrative Law Judge may change these dates by ruling.
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