Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 860 - PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION › Division 95 - RESOURCE ADEQUACY › Section 860-095-0040 - State Program Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) Any Electric
			 Company or Electricity Service Supplier that is not a Regional Participant must
			 comply with the State Program requirements.
(2) State Participants must file a Binding
			 Forward Showing with the Commission for approval no later than April 1 of every
			 odd-numbered year. A State Participant's initial Binding Forward Showing must
			 be filed no later than April 1, 2025.
(3) State Participants must use a 1 event-day
			 in 10-year Loss of Load Expectation standard when submitting their Binding
			 Forward Showing.
(4) State
			 Participants must use a Planning Reserve Margin and Qualified Capacity
			 Contribution consistent with a Qualified Regional Program or other
			 Commission-approved methodology.
(5) The Commission Staff and Parties should
			 complete its compliance review for each State Participant within 90 days of
			 filing the Binding Forward Showing. A State Participant's Binding Forward
			 Showing submission to the Commission will be available for review only by
			 Qualified Parties and only upon request pursuant to a Modified Protective
			 Order.
(6) A State Participant
			 shall provide its monthly P50 Peak Load Forecast for the two-year period
			 beginning July 1 of the filing year as part of their Binding Forward
			 Showing.
(7) A State Participant
			 must demonstrate that its Compliance Resources meet 95 percent of its monthly
			 forecasted P50 load for twelve months beginning July 1 of the filing year and
			 80 percent of the monthly forecasted P50 load for the following twelve months
			 plus a Planning Reserve Margin each month. A State Participant is not bound to
			 meet its load with its Compliance Resources in actual operations.
(8) As part of the forecast of monthly P50
			 Peak Load Forecast and monthly forecast of transmission requirements, an
			 Electricity Service Supplier must use current load levels or provide reasonable
			 substitutes of the load forecast. An Electricity Service Supplier is
			 responsible for demonstrating that the substitute load forecast is
			 reasonable.
(9) A State Participant
			 must demonstrate that it has NERC Priority 6 or NERC Priority 7 firm
			 point-to-point transmission service or network integration transmission service
			 rights to deliver 75 percent of the Compliance Resources from generation source
			 to load sink. A State Participant may request a waiver of a portion of the
			 transmission requirement if it can demonstrate that at least one of the
			 following conditions applies:
(a) The State
			 Participant is experiencing enduring transmission constraints;
(b) Future firm Available Transfer Capability
			 is expected;
(c) An applicable
			 portion of the State Participant's existing transmission service rights is
			 expected to be derated or out-of-service; or
(d) Expected counterflow directly between two
			 balancing authority areas from another entity supports the State Participant's
			 transmission of energy from generation source to load sink. This counterflow
			 cannot already be offsetting transmission of energy for another State
			 Participant or Regional Participant. The State Participant requesting the
			 exception shall include a written acknowledgement from the other entity that it
			 is aware of such an exception request.
(e) A State Participant cannot use waiver
			 condition (9)(a) or (9)(b) for the same path for consecutive compliance periods
			 if the Qualified Regional Program would preclude use of such waiver.