Code of Vermont Rules › Agency 30 - PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION › Sub-Agency 000 - GENERAL › Chapter 5600 - ELECTRIC SERVICE EXTENSION POLICY › Section 30 000 5600 - ELECTRIC SERVICE EXTENSION POLICY

Current through June, 2024
Section 5.601
			 Purpose
This Rule implements the legislative mandate of
				30 V.S.A §
											209(b)(1)(B).
Section 5.602
			 Applicability
This Electric Service Extension Policy shall apply
				to all single-phase and multi-phase distribution service extensions
				by Vermont electric utilities (as defined by
				30 V.S.A. §§
											201 and
				203
				). All such utilities shall revise their tariffs to conform to these
				rules. These rules shall supercede any utility tariff provision
				determined to conflict with these rules.
Section 5.603 Definitions
(a) Application fee: the fee paid
			 by the line extension customer at the time the customer submits a
			 written application for a line extension. The phrase "application
			 fee" is intended to include any "engineering fee." The application
			 fee shall not exceed $ 250, unless a higher fee is specified in the
			 utility's line extension tariff. If applicable, such a higher fee
			 shall be based on an average of all the costs incurred by the utility
			 for all line extensions constructed in a test year. The application
			 fee shall be credited to the customer against the total cost of the
			 line extension if the extension is constructed.
(b)
			 Contributions-In-Aid-Of-Construction: the monetary contributions by a
			 customer requesting service to an electric utility to design,
			 furnish, place and construct such primary and secondary service
			 extensions as are necessary to render the service
			 requested.
(c) Conduit:
			 the pipe that encloses and protects electric conductors in
			 underground power installations, including necessary fittings and
			 connectors.
(d)
			 Customer-Owned Lines: electric service lines, at either primary or
			 secondary voltage, extending from the Delivery Point.
(e) Delivery Point: the point at
			 which the utility-owned facilities first connect to the
			 customer-owned facilities. Each utility's line extension tariff shall
			 specifically identify the typical Delivery Point for each type of
			 electric service that it provides and shall state how the Delivery
			 Point may be determined for specific situations in which the actual
			 Delivery Point differs from the typical Delivery Point.
(f) Looped Electric Utility
			 Service: electric service provided to a customer from a distribution
			 line which receives, or is capable of receiving, its electric supply
			 from both directions of the distribution line.
(g) Primary Line: an electric
			 distribution line operating at greater than 600 volts.
(h) Secondary line: an electric
			 distribution line operating at 600 volts or less.
(i) Service Drop: includes a
			 100-foot overhead power line(s) from the initial customer connection
			 with the utility's secondary facilities to the Delivery Point. The
			 service drop is the minimum overhead secondary electrical connection
			 and shall not include poles, primary wiring, right-of-way clearing or
			 acquisition, trenching or backfilling, or any other cost item
			 required to serve a new or relocated customer.
(j) Service Extension: the electric
			 facilities required to connect the power line existing at the time of
			 the request for service to the customer's premises. The service
			 extension shall include all poles, primary wiring, secondary wiring,
			 right-of-way acquisition and clearing, trenching and backfilling, any
			 other one-time cost items associated with service only to that new
			 customer, and transformer(s) and meter(s) if so provided in the
			 utility's tariff. A Service Extension shall include the
			 reestablishment of a previously abandoned Service
			 Extension.