Virginia Administrative Code › Title 20 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS › Agency 5 - STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION › Chapter 350 - RULES GOVERNING EXEMPTIONS FOR LARGE GENERAL SERVICES COMPANIES › Section A20VAC5-350-30 - Standard criteria for notice to utility

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. Each notice of nonparticipation shall
				identify the customer, the customer's billing address and all applicable
				utility account numbers , and the location of the specific facility and single
				site for which any such exemption is being sought.
B. The notice of nonparticipation shall also
				contain an affidavit signed by the customer's president, corporate secretary,
				or other officer of the customer concerning the energy efficiency programs.
				Such affidavit shall attest to the validity of information submitted in support
				of the customer's notice of nonparticipation.
C. The notice of nonparticipation shall
				certify the energy efficiency savings achieved from investment in such
				programs, in kWhs, within the prior five years as well as the specific measures
				undertaken to achieve those savings and the life expectancy of each measure.
				The notice of nonparticipation shall certify the energy efficiency savings
				achieved by the customer meets or exceeds the requirements of § 56-596.2 of the
				Code of Virginia.
D. To qualify
				for the exemption, each customer shall have measurable and verifiable energy
				efficiency savings in the prior five years consistent with § 56-585.1A 5 c of
				the Code of Virginia. It shall be the customer's sole responsibility to ensure
				the energy savings claimed in the customer's notice of nonparticipation meets
				the definition of measured and verified as set forth in § 56-576 of the Code of
				Virginia, and such compliance shall be attested to in the customer's affidavit.
				Additionally, each customer providing a notice of nonparticipation to its
				utility pursuant to this chapter shall subsequently furnish yearly reports to
				the utility and the commission's Division of Public Utility Regulation
				describing the energy efficiency savings achieved by the customer during each
				12-month period in which such notice of nonparticipation is intended to be in
				effect. The annual reports shall include the status of energy efficiency
				measures and operational changes included in the customer's notice of
				nonparticipation. Each customer shall certify that each such annual report
				demonstrates energy efficiency savings at a level consistent with commonly
				accepted industry standards for energy efficiency savings obtained by similarly
				situated customers and adheres to any other regulatory criteria the commission
				reasonably deems appropriate. Such reports shall be filed on or about March 1
				of the year following such customer's filing of its notice of nonparticipation,
				with such March 1 filings continuing thereafter throughout the life of the
				customer's energy efficiency improvements described in the customer's notice of
				nonparticipation.
E. Each notice of
				nonparticipation shall also include a measurement and verification plan
				conforming to the protocol set forth in the definition of "measured and
				verified" as provided in § 56-576 of the Code of Virginia. It shall be the
				customer's sole responsibility to ensure its measurement and verification plan
				conforms to this definition.
Statutory Authority: §§ 12.1-13 and 56-585.1 of the Code of
					 Virginia.