New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES › Chapter 9 - ELECTRIC SERVICES › Part 568 - INTERCONNECTION OF GENERATING FACILITIES WITH A NAMEPLATE RATING UP TO AND INCLUDING 10 MW CONNECTING TO A UTILITY SYSTEM › Section 17.9.568.24 - GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO UTILITIES

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. A utility shall interconnect any
				interconnection customer that meets the interconnection criteria set forth in
				this rule. A utility shall make reasonable efforts to keep the applicant
				informed of the status and progress.
B. Utilities shall reasonably endeavor to aid
				and assist interconnection customers to ensure that a proposed generating
				facility's interconnection design, operation, and maintenance are appropriate
				for connection to the utility's system. This may include consultations with the
				applicant and its engineer and other representatives.
C. Utilities shall make reasonable efforts to
				meet all time frames provided for in this rule unless a utility and an
				applicant agree to a different schedule. If a utility cannot meet a deadline
				provided herein, it shall notify the applicant in writing within one business
				day, explain the reason for its inability to meet the deadline, and provide an
				estimated time by which it will complete its activity. The utility shall keep
				the applicant updated of any changes in the expected completion date.
D. Utilities shall use the same reasonable
				efforts in processing and analyzing interconnection applications from all
				interconnection customers, whether the generating facility is owned or operated
				by the utility, its subsidiaries or affiliates, or others.
E. Utilities shall maintain records for three
				years of each interconnection application received, the times required to
				complete each interconnection application approval or disapproval, and
				justification for the utility's disapproval of any interconnection application.
				Other reporting requirements are specified in
				17.9.568.23 NMAC.
F. Utilities shall maintain current, clear,
				and concise information regarding this rule including the name, telephone
				number, and email address of contact persons. The information shall be easily
				accessible on the utility's website beginning within one month of the effective
				date of this rule, or the information may be provided in bill inserts or
				separate mailings sent no later than one month after the effective date of this
				rule and no less often than once each year thereafter. Each utility shall
				maintain a copy of this rule at its principal office and make the same
				available for public inspection and copying during regular business
				hours.
G. A small utility that uses
				a consultant to review a proposal to interconnect a generating facility with
				the small utility's system may extend each of the time deadlines for review of
				the fast track process by a period not to exceed 20 business days provided that
				the small utility shall make a good faith effort to complete the review
				sooner.
H. Compliance with this
				interconnection process does not constitute a request for, nor provision of any
				transmission delivery service, or any local distribution delivery service.
				Interconnection under this rule does not constitute an agreement by the utility
				to purchase or pay for any energy, inadvertently or intentionally
				exported.