ATTACHMENT B
DECISION NO. 91584: PRIORITY SYSTEM FOR ROTATING OUTAGES
1. Essential Customers - Normally Exempt from Rotating Outages.
A. Government and other agencies providing essential fire, police, and prison services.
B. Government agencies essential to the national defense.
C. Hospitals with 100 beds or more.
D. Communication utilities, as they relate to public health, welfare and security, including telephones.
E. Navigation communication, traffic control, and landing and departure facilities for commercial air and sea operations.
F. Electric utility facilities and supporting fuel and fuel transportation services critical to continuity of electric power system operation.
G. Radio and television broadcasting stations used for broadcasting emergency messages, instructions, and other public information related to the electric curtailment emergency.
H. Water and sewage treatment utilities may request partial or complete rotating outage exemption from electric utilities in times of emergency identified as requiring their service, such as fire fighting.
I. Areas served by networks, at utilities' discretion.
J. Binding Mandatory Curtailment Plan: Any customer meeting both the criteria for Economic Damage and those following.
The customer would be required to file with the utility an acceptable binding energy and load curtailment plan. The customer would agree to curtail electric use on his entire circuit by the amount being achieved via rotating outages. The customer's plan would show how reduction on the entire circuit could be achieved in 5 percent increments to the 20 percent level,32 and show how compliance can be monitored and enforced. Since the required curtailment level would have been requested prior to the rotating outage stage, the customer would have to maintain the required reduction during all rotating outage periods. Several customers on a circuit could file a joint binding plan to guarantee the required curtailment from the entire circuit.
Note: Protection cannot be guaranteed because daily circuit switching may temporarily change a customer's outage block and priority classification.
2. Economic Damage Customers
As circumstances permit, individual warning of rotating outage plans would be given to large customers having demand of 300 kW or more, and to other customers upon their showing or need to show major economic damage or clear and imminent danger to personal health or safety, in order to qualify for this category. Individual timely warning could not be guaranteed either because of time, manpower, or communication limits, or because of daily circuit switching which could temporarily change a customer's outage block number.
3. All Other Customers
Customers not qualifying for higher priority. Warning and other relevant information would be informed by mass media, and no special treatment or individual notification would generally be given.
(End of Attachment B.)
ATTACHMENT C
ADOPTED PRIORITY SYSTEM
FOR ROTATING OUTAGES
1. Essential Customers - Normally Exempt from Rotating Outages
A. Government and other agencies providing essential fire, police, and prison services.
B. Government agencies essential to the national defense.
C. Hospitals.
D. Communication utilities, as they relate to public health, welfare and security, including telephones.
E. Navigation communication, traffic control, and landing and departure facilities for commercial air and sea operations.
F. Electric utility facilities and supporting fuel and fuel transportation services critical to continuity of electric power system operation.
G. Radio and television broadcasting stations used for broadcasting emergency messages, instructions, and other public information related to the electric curtailment emergency.
H. Water and sewage treatment utilities may request partial or complete rotating outage exemption from electric utilities in times of emergency identified as requiring their service, such as fire fighting.
I. Areas served by networks, at utilities' discretion.
J. Rail rapid transit systems as necessary to protect public safety, to the extent exempted by the Commission.
K. Customers served at transmission voltages to the extent that (a) they supply power to the grid in excess of their load, or (b) their inclusion in rotating outages would jeopardize system integrity.
L. Optional Binding Mandatory Curtailment Program (OBMC): Any customer meeting both the criteria for Economic Damage and those following.
The customer must file an acceptable binding energy and load curtailment plan with the utility. The customer must agree to curtail electric use on the entire circuit by the amount being achieved via rotating outages. The customer's plan must show how reduction on the entire circuit can be achieved in 5 percent increments to the 20 percent level, and show how compliance can be monitored and enforced. The customer must maintain the required reduction during the entire rotating outage period since the required curtailment level is requested prior to commencement of Stage 3. Several customers on a circuit may file a joint binding plan to guarantee the required curtailment from the entire circuit. Each utility shall facilitate communication between customers on a circuit if any customer expresses interest in enrolling in the OBMC program.
Note: Protection cannot be guaranteed because daily circuit switching may temporarily change a customer's outage block and priority classification.
2. Medical Baseline Customers
Medical baseline customers shall be notified by recorded or other message of a rotating outage to which they will be affected, targeting life support and critical care customers first. The call to medical baseline customers is not required until a rotating outage is imminent. Utilities must undertake their best efforts to inform medical baseline customers.
3. Economic Damage Customers
As circumstances permit, individual warning of rotating outage plans will be given to large customers having demand of 300 kW or more. It will also be given to other customers upon their showing to the utility of major economic damage, or clear and imminent danger to personal health or safety. Individual timely warning can not be guaranteed, however, because of time, manpower, or communication limits, or due to daily circuit switching which may temporarily change a customer's outage block number.
4. All Other Customers
Warning and other relevant information may be provided by mass media, with no special treatment or individual notification generally given.
(End of Attachment C.)
ATTACHMENT D
ADOPTED STUDIES AND REPORTS
1. STUDIES AND REPORTS: Each respondent utility shall file and serve the following studies and reports:
ITEM NO |
STUDY OR REPORT |
DATE DUE |
1 |
Reconfiguring circuits to isolate essential from non-essential customers. Study will examine essential customers, including, but not limited to, rural hospitals and networks. Study will also look at alternatives (e.g., backup generation). (Decision Section 6.1.1.) |
May 1, 2001 |
2 |
SCADA versus non-SCADA implementation of rotating outages. (Decision Section 6.1.5.) |
June 1, 2001 |
3 |
Outbound calling program. (Decision Section 6.2.1.) |
June 1, 2001 |
4 |
OSHA/OES/utility measures for industrial customers regarding employee or general public health and safety. (Decision Section 6.2.2.) |
June 1, 2001 |
5 |
MUNI. (Decision Section 6.2.3.) |
May 1, 2001 |
6 |
Existing and new methods and systems for more advance notification of rotating outages. (Decision Section 7.4.) |
May 1, 2001 |
7 |
Monthly report on interruptible and outage programs. (Decision Section 8.2.) |
First report due on June 7, 2001 |
A. Items 1-6: Each study or report shall be filed in this proceeding, and served on the service list. 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 5 applies to PG&E only.
B. Item 7: Monthly reports shall be filed in this proceeding, and served on the Presiding Officer (two copies), Energy Division (three copies), the Administrative Law Judge (one copy), and any party who requests a copy.
2. COMMENTS, RESPONSES, PROTESTS: Parties may file comments, responses or protests to a filed study or report, and shall file such pleadings within 10 days of the date the study or report is filed and served. Similarly, if respondent utility files and serves an application or advice letter to implement any matter raised by such study or report, responses or protests shall be filed and served within 10 days of the date the application or advice letter is filed and served. The Assigned Commissioner and Presiding Officer, or the Administrative Law Judge, may change these dates by ruling.
MUNI may at any time file a formal complaint regarding mitigation measures to protect MUNI passengers and staff from a rotating outage. MUNI shall serve a copy of any such formal complaint on PG&E. PG&E's answer to any such formal complaint shall be filed and served within 10 days of the date the complaint is filed. The Assigned Commissioner and Presiding Officer, or the Administrative Law Judge, may change this date by ruling.
(End of Attachment D.)
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that I have by mail and electronic mail this day served a true copy of the original attached Presiding Officer and Assigned Commissioner's Ruling on Filing and Service of Draft Advice Letters and Tariffs on all parties of record in this proceeding or their attorneys of record.
Dated March 16, 2001, at San Francisco, California.
Gaby L. Susanto |
NOTICE
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