Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Licensing and Regulatory Affairs › Public Service Commission › Interconnection and Distributed Generation Standards › Part 2 - INTERCONNECTION STANDARDS › Section R. 460.920 - Electric utility interconnection procedures

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 20.
(1) An
				  electric utility shall file applications for approval of interconnection
				  procedures and forms within 120 calendar days of the effective date of these
				  rules.
(2) The commission shall
				  issue its order approving, rejecting, or modifying an electric utility's
				  proposed interconnection procedures and forms within 360 calendar days of the
				  electric utility filing an application for approval of interconnection
				  procedures and forms. If the commission finds the procedures and forms proposed
				  by the electric utility to be inadequate or unacceptable, the commission may
				  either adopt procedures and forms proposed by another person in the proceeding
				  or modify and accept the procedures and forms proposed by the electric
				  utility.
(3) Until the commission
				  accepts, rejects, or modifies an electric utility's interconnection procedures
				  and forms, the electric utility may use the proposed interconnection procedures
				  and forms when processing interconnection applications with the exception of
				  fixed fees and fee caps. An electric utility shall only charge fees that comply
				  with the requirements of
				  R 460.926 until the commission
				  accepts, rejects, or modifies the proposed interconnection procedures and
				  forms, unless the commission approves different fees pursuant to
				  R
				  460.926(5).
(4) Two or more electric utilities may file a
				  joint application proposing interconnection procedures for use by the joint
				  applicants. The proposed interconnection procedures must ensure compliance with
				  these rules.
(5) The proposed
				  interconnection procedures must, at a minimum, include all of the following:
(a) All necessary applications, forms, and
				  relevant template agreements.
(b) A
				  schedule of all applicable fixed fees and fee caps.
(c) Voltage ranges for high voltage
				  distribution and low voltage distribution.
(d) Required initial review
				  screens.
(e) Required supplemental
				  review screens.
(f) The process for
				  conducting system impact studies and facilities studies on DERs when there is
				  an affected system issue.
(g)
				  Testing and certification requirements of DER telecommunications,
				  cybersecurity, data exchange, and remote control operation.
(h) Parallel operation
				  requirements.
(i) A method to
				  estimate the expected annual kWh output of the generator or
				  generators.
(j) If an electric
				  utility uses alternative methods for power limited export DER pursuant to
				  R 460.980(3), a
				  description of those methods.
(k) A
				  cost allocation methodology for study track DERs.
(l) An evaluation of an interconnection
				  application for a project that includes single or multiple types of DERs at a
				  site for which the applicant seeks a single point of common coupling.
(m) Details describing how an energy storage
				  device may be integrated into an existing legacy net metering program system
				  without impacting the 10-year grandfathering period or participation in the
				  distributed generation program.
(n)
				  For electric utilities that are member-regulated electric cooperatives, a
				  procedure for fairly processing applications in instances in which the number
				  of applications exceed the capacity of the electric cooperative to timely meet
				  the deadlines in these rules.
(o)
				  Examples of modifications that are not material modifications.
(p) The procedure for performing a material
				  modification review to determine if a modification is material.
(q) Any required terms and conditions that
				  must be specified in the general liability insurance for level 3, 4, and 5
				  projects.
(r) A list of the
				  electric utility's holidays.
(s) If
				  an electric utility uses an alternative process pursuant to
				  R 460.956, a description of that
				  process.
(t) Fast track eligibility
				  criteria for applications proposing to interconnect DERs with 4.8 kV
				  distribution systems.
(u) In the
				  event daytime loading data is not available for the initial screen provided in
				  R 460.946(5)(b), the
				  date when the data will be collected.