Florida Administrative Code › 25 - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › 25 - Departmental › Chapter 25-17 - CONSERVATION › Section 25-17.001 - General Information

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) The terms
				system and electric utility, as used in this Rule, shall be synonymous and have
				the same definition as "electric utility" as defined in Section
				 366.82(1),
				F.S.
(2) The Florida Energy
				Efficiency and Conservation Act requires increasing the efficiency of the
				electric systems of Florida, increasing the conservation of expensive
				resources, such as petroleum fuels, reducing the growth rate of weather
				sensitive peak demand, and reducing and controlling the growth rate of kilowatt
				hour consumption to the extent cost effective.
(3) Reducing the growth rate of weather
				sensitive peak demand on the electric system to the extent cost effective is a
				priority. Reducing the growth rate of weather sensitive peak demand benefits
				not only the individual customer who reduces his demand, but also all other
				customers on the system, both of whom realize the immediate benefits of
				reducing the fuel costs of the most expensive form of generation and the longer
				term benefits of deferring the need for or construction of additional
				generating capacity.
(4) Another
				priority is increasing the efficiency of the end-use consumption of electricity
				to the extent cost-effective.
(5)
				In addition to specific demand-side goals, general goals and methods for
				increasing the overall efficiency of the bulk electric power system of Florida
				are broadly stated since these methods are an ongoing part of the practice of
				every well-managed electric utility's programs and shall be continued.
These methods are to:
Generating Electric Utilities
(a) Review and revise utility operating
				practices such as maintenance scheduling, daily and longer term unit commitment
				practices through the power broker system to facilitate economic dispatch on
				both a daily and extended basis and to increase conservation of expensive fuel
				resources, such as petroleum fuels, to the extent cost effective.
(b) Plan development of the bulk power system
				over time so that the most cost effective combination of generating units,
				associated facilities and other technologies is developed for meeting
				generation requirements.
(c)
				Increase the efficiency of each generating unit and associated operating
				practices to the extent cost effective.
All Electric Utilities
(d) Aggressively integrate nontraditional
				sources of power generation including cogenerators with high thermal efficiency
				and small power producers using renewable fuels into the various utility
				service areas near utility load centers to the extent cost effective and
				reliable.
(e) Increase the
				efficiency of transmission and distribution systems to the extent cost
				effective.
(f) Aggressively pursue
				research, development and demonstration projects jointly with others as well as
				individual projects in individual service areas. In this context, the
				Commission anticipates that an aggressive research program would include both
				technological research, research on load behavior and related problems and
				market-related research.