Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 515 - RULES OF GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Chapter 515-3 - GENERAL RULES › Subject 515-3-4 - INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING › Rule 515-3-4-.04 - Identification of Capacity Resources

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
(1) Existing Resources.
(a) Assessment of Existing Resources. The
				utility shall describe all existing resources, including existing power
				purchases, sales and exchanges, demand-side resources, purchases from
				non-utility sources, purchases from other utilities, cogeneration, standby
				generation capacity, interruptible service capacity, pooling or coordination
				agreements that reduce resource requirements, owned or partially-owned
				generating facilities, and any other supply-side resources. Any projected
				changes must be documented. The utility shall also describe all resources
				available to the utility enterprise, to the extent that these resources affect
				the resources available to the utility;
(b) Assessment of Existing Transmission. The
				utility shall analyze the adequacy of its existing transmission system to
				determine its capability to serve load over the next ten years, to evaluate the
				supply-side resource potential of actions to reduce transmission losses, to
				evaluate the potential impacts of demand-side resources on the transmission
				network, and to assess the transmission component of the avoided
				cost;
(c) The utility must provide
				a comprehensive Environmental Compliance Strategy ("ECS") that includes a
				detailed report on the state of current and proposed environmental regulations
				that may have an effect on the installation of equipment or changes in the
				operation of electric generating plants, including coal-fired, gas-fired,
				nuclear and hydroelectric. Included among the items the ECS is to address are
				existing and proposed regulation of sulfur dioxides, nitrogen dioxides, lead,
				mercury and other hazardous air pollutants listed in section 112 of the Clean
				Air Act, particulates, ozone, carbon dioxide, methane, low-level nuclear waste,
				high-level nuclear waste, as well as water quantity and quality, cooling
				technologies, and the discharge effluents of coal ash and thermal pollution, as
				applicable to electric generation. The ECS will evaluate the utility's plans,
				including technologies and forecasted incremental capital and operation and
				maintenance expenditures for compliance for the next ten years for existing
				plants. It will include a section of environmental regulations promulgated
				since the last IRP, and the status of pending regulations that may have an
				effect on the installation of equipment or changes in the operation of electric
				generating plants, including coal-fired, gas-fired, nuclear and hydroelectric.
				The utility will also provide the citation and procedural status of any
				litigation (whether in a state or federal court, administrative tribunal, or
				any other forum) the utility is participating in, either representing itself or
				as a member of a consortium, that involves challenges to any regulations
				covered in the ECS.
(d) Assessment
				of the Future Potential of Existing Resources.
Each utility shall assess the role of existing demand-side
				  and supply-side resources in meeting future demand requirements. For those
				  resources for which any action other than continued use in its existing
				  condition appears to be cost-effective, the utility shall assess and document
				  the cost and benefit associated with any such action, and justify why such
				  action will or will not be taken. Such assessment with respect to the use of
				  existing supply-side capacity resources must include comparison against the
				  resources offered in response to the utility's Request for Proposals, with the
				  exception of the capacity resources identified in Rule
				  515-3-4-.04(3)(f);