Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 860 - PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION › Division 29 - REGULATIONS RELATED TO AGREEMENTS BETWEEN ELECTRIC UTILITIES AND ELECTRIC COGENERATION AND SMALL POWER PRODUCTION FACILITIES › Section 860-029-0124 - Coordination between Qualifying Facility and Public Utility under Standard Power Purchase Agreements

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1)
			 Coordination with System. The qualifying facility's delivery of electricity to
			 the purchasing public utility under a standard power purchase agreement must be
			 at a voltage, phase, power factor, and frequency as reasonably specified by the
			 purchasing public utility. The qualifying facility will furnish, install,
			 operate, and maintain in good order and repair, and without cost to the
			 purchasing public utility, such switching equipment, relays, locks and seals,
			 breakers, automatic synchronizers, and other control and protective apparatus
			 as required in the interconnection agreement or determined by the purchasing
			 public utility to be reasonably necessary for the safe and reliable operation
			 of the Facility in parallel with the System, or the qualifying facility may
			 contract with the purchasing public utility to do so at the qualifying
			 facility's expense. The purchasing public utility must at all times have access
			 to all switching equipment capable of isolating the Facility from the
			 System.
(2) Planned Outages in
			 standard power purchase agreements:
(a) The
			 qualifying facility must provide the purchasing public utility with an annual
			 forecast of Planned Outages for each year of the purchase period at least one
			 month, but no more than three months, before the first day of that year, and
			 may update such Planned Outage forecast as necessary to comply with Prudent
			 Electrical Practices. Any such update to the Planned Outage forecast must be
			 promptly submitted to the purchasing public utility. Although the Planned
			 Outage schedule should include predetermined outage duration, the outage may be
			 extended when the original scope of work requires more time than originally
			 scheduled, subject to notice of at least five days to the purchasing public
			 utility when feasible.
(b) The
			 purchasing public utility may specify in the power purchase agreement two
			 calendar months in each year in which the qualifying facility may not schedule
			 Planned Outages during times when motive force is available to generate and
			 deliver Net Output from the Facility ("High Demand Months") except to the
			 extent reasonably required to enable a vendor to satisfy a guarantee
			 requirement. Failure to identify the High Demand Months in the power purchase
			 agreement shall constitute waiver of the purchasing public utility's right to
			 require Planned Outages to not occur in such months. The purchasing public
			 utility may change either or both High Demand Months no less than 12 months
			 prior to the first contract year for which the purchasing public utility
			 intends to change the High Demand Month(s). Nothing in the power purchase
			 agreement's provisions limiting Planned Outages during High Demand Months may
			 prohibit a qualifying facility from conducting Planned Outages during High
			 Demand Months at times when motive force is unavailable to generate and deliver
			 energy.