In brief, proposed Schedule RBRP includes a capacity payment of $7 per kilowatt (kW) per month, an energy payment of $0.35 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), and an interconnection allowance for new BUGs of $10/kW.3 Customers whose load reductions are 15% or greater on the customer's circuit compared to the previous year's usage receive a circuit exemption from rotating outage (similar to the circuit exemption for Optional Binding Mandatory Curtailment (OBMC) program participants). A tiered penalty structure applies increasing penalties for subsequent failures to perform. For these incentives and penalties, the BUG must operate until the CAISO no longer requires a firm load reduction, and all firm load is back in service. Finally, the proposed tariff imposes no limits on how often SDG&E may call upon a customer to run its BUG.
3 SDG&E proposes the capacity payment for six months, from May 15 through November 15, 2001, and the one-time interconnection allowance for customers who install new BUGs between May 15 and August 1, 2001.