North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 04 - COMMERCE › Chapter 11 - UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 6 › Section 11 R06-19-02 - CURTAILMENT OF SERVICE

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) In the
				event that a North Carolina retail gas utility cannot supply the demands of all
				its customers, the utility shall curtail the customers paying the least margin
				per dekatherm first. This applies to all customers, be they transportation
				customers, regular sales rate customers, municipal customers or otherwise.
				However, if operating conditions require some interruption of service to a
				particular geographical area instead of a utility's entire system, then
				curtailment by margin should be applied only to those customers within the
				affected areas.
(b) If it is
				necessary to interrupt some but not all customers paying the same margin per
				dekatherm, then, to the extent practicable, service shall be curtailed to the
				customers paying the same margin per dekatherm on a pro rata basis for the
				season.
(c) For the convenience of
				wording in tariffs, the following definitions of priorities by end use will be
				retained. However, these priorities are not to be used for purposes of
				curtailment priorities unless the Commission so orders pursuant to section (d)
				below.
(i) Priority 1. Residential. Essential
				Human Needs With No Alternate Fuel Capability. Commercial less than 50 Mcf/day.
1.1 Residential requirements and essential
				human needs with no alternate fuel capability.
1.2 Commercial less than 50 Mcf/day.
Priority 2. Industrial Less Than 50 Mcf/day. Process,
				  Feedstock and Plant Protection With No Alternate Fuel Capability. Large
				  commercial requirements of 50 Mcf or more per day except for large commercial
				  boiler fuel requirements above 300 Mcf/day.
2.1 Industrial less than 50
				Mcf/day.
2.2 Commercial between 50
				and 100 Mcf/day.
2.3 Commercial
				greater than 100 Mcf/day, non boiler use.
2.4 Commercial greater than 100 Mcf/day, with
				no alternate fuel capability.
2.5
				Industrial process, feedstock and plant protection between 50 and 300 Mcf/day,
				with no alternate fuel capability.
2.6 Industrial process, feedstock and plant
				protection between 300 and 3,000 Mcf/day, with no alternate fuel
				capability.
2.7 Industrial process,
				feedstock and plant protection greater than 3,000 Mcf/day, with no alternate
				fuel capability.
2.8 Commercial
				over 100 Mcf/day (excluding commercial Priorities 2.3 and 2.4 and commercial
				boiler fuel requirements over 300 Mcf/day).
Priority 3. All other industrial requirements not greater
				  than 300 Mcf per day.
3.1
				Industrial non boiler between 50 and 300 Mcf per day.
3.2 Other industrial between 50 and 300 Mcf
				per day.
Priority 4. Non boiler use between 300 and 3,000
				  Mcf/day.
Priority 5. Non boiler use greater than 3,000 Mcf/day.
Priority 6. Boiler fuel requirements of more than 300 Mcf per
				  day but less than 1,500 Mcf per day.
Priority 7. Boiler fuel requirements between 1,500 and 3,000
				  Mcf/day.
Priority 8. Boiler fuel requirements between 3,000 and 10,000
				  Mcf/day.
Priority 9. Boiler fuel requirements greater than 10,000
				  Mcf/day.