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Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part III - FINANCIAL RECORDS AND REPORTING RULES › Subpart C - Annual Reporting Requirements › Section 480-100-264 - Affiliated interest and subsidiary transactions report

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(1) Each electric utility must file an annual
				  report summarizing all transactions, except transactions provided at tariff
				  rates, that occurred between the utility and its affiliated interests, and the
				  utility and its subsidiaries. The report is due one hundred fifty days from the
				  end of each reporting period, whether a fiscal or calendar year. The report
				  must include a corporate organization chart of the utility and its affiliated
				  interests and subsidiaries.
(2)
				  When total transactions with an affiliated interest or a subsidiary are less
				  than one hundred thousand dollars for the reporting period, the utility must
				  provide the name of the affiliated interest or subsidiary participating in the
				  transactions and the total dollar amounts of the transactions. When total
				  transactions with an affiliated interest or subsidiary equal or exceed one
				  hundred thousand dollars for the reporting period, the utility must provide:
(a) A balance sheet and income statement for
				  such affiliated interest;
(b) A
				  description of the products or services provided to or from the utility and
				  each such affiliated interest or subsidiary;
(c) A description of the pricing basis or
				  costing method, and procedures for allocating costs for such products or
				  services, and the amount and accounts charged during the year;
(d) A description of the terms of any loans
				  between the utility and each such affiliated interest or subsidiary and a
				  listing of the year-end loan amounts and maximum loan amounts outstanding
				  during the year;
(e) A description
				  of the terms and total amount of any obligation or liability assumed by the
				  utility for each such affiliated interest or subsidiary;
(f) A description of the activities of each
				  such affiliated interest or subsidiary with which the utility has transactions;
				  and
(g) A list of all common
				  officers and directors between the electric utility and each such affiliated
				  interest or subsidiary, along with their titles in each organization.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part III - FINANCIAL RECORDS AND REPORTING RULES › Subpart C - Annual Reporting Requirements › Section 480-100-268 - Essential utilities services contracts report

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(1) When the annual transactions with a
				  vendor exceed one and one-half percent of total company sales to ultimate
				  customers as reported in the utility's most recent Federal Energy Regulatory
				  Commission (FERC) Form No. 1 (or combined Forms No. 1 and No. 2 for combined
				  utilities), each electric utility must report the total contracts with that
				  vendor for essential utility services specifying the relevant terms of the
				  contract or contracts, along with anticipated associated charges. Information
				  about the FERC Form No. 1 regarding the version adopted and where to obtain it
				  is set out in WAC
				  480-100-999 (Adoption by
				  reference).
(2) The report of
				  essential service vendors is due one hundred twenty days from the end of each
				  reporting period, whether a fiscal or calendar year.
(3) For each vendor the report must include:
(a) The parties to the contract;
(b) The type of contract;
(c) The essential obligations of each party
				  to the contract;
(d) The length of
				  the contract;
(e) The budgeted
				  annual dollar value of the contract during the reporting period; and
(f) The actual payments for services rendered
				  under the contract during the reporting period.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part III - FINANCIAL RECORDS AND REPORTING RULES › Subpart D - Quarterly Reporting Requirement › Section 480-100-275 - Actual results for Washington operations report

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Within sixty days of the end of each quarter, each electric
					 utility must file a report of actual results for Washington operations. The
					 results of operations report must contain each of the three monthly balances
					 and the latest twelve months' ending balance for all accounts of the uniform
					 system of accounts. The report must include the average customer count and
					 total unit sales per customer class for each reported period.
Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						80.01.040,
						80.04.160,
						81.04.160 and
						34.05.353. 05-06-051 (Docket No.
						A-021178 and TO-030288, General Order No. R-518), § 480-100-275, filed
						2/28/05, effective 3/31/05.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part IV - LEASE OF UTILITY FACILITIES › Section 480-100-282 - Application for approval of lease of utility facilities

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Under the provisions of
				  RCW
				  80.04.520, the applicant must certify that
				  the requested approval of lease of utility facilities is necessary to exempt
				  any owner of the facilities from being a public utility company under the
				  Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040,
					 80.04.160, and
					 81.04.160. 05-17-026 (Docket No.
					 A-021178 and TO-030288, General Order No. R-522), § 480-100-282, filed
					 8/5/05, effective 9/5/05.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part IV - LEASE OF UTILITY FACILITIES › Section 480-100-287 - Form of lease application

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A filing for approval of lease of utility facilities must be
				  submitted in the following form:
Before The Washington Utilities And Transportation
				  Commission
In the Matter of the Application of (insert
								name) for an Order
Approving the Lease of Utility
								Facilities.
No. . . .
(Number to be inserted by Commission)
. . . . . . . .
Application is hereby made to the Washington Utilities and
				  Transportation Commission for an order authorizing the lease of utility
				  facilities. The following general information and exhibits are furnished in
				  support:
GENERAL INFORMATION
1.Name of applicant.
2.Address of principal office of
				applicant.
3.Name and address of
				attorney or agent.
4.State or
				states under which applicant is organized and form of organization.
5.A general description of the property owned
				by applicant and the field of its operations.
EXHIBIT "A"
A statement by applicant certifying that the requested
				  approval is necessary or appropriate to exempt any owner of the facilities from
				  being a public utility company under the federal Public Utility Holding Company
				  Act of 1935.
EXHIBIT "B"
Detailed unconsolidated balance sheet as of three months
				  before the date the application is filed, and a pro forma balance sheet as of
				  the same date showing the effect of the proposed lease. Indicate separately the
				  amount of intangibles and the amount reflected in plant acquisition adjustment
				  account if such items are included in the fixed capital or utility plant
				  accounts of the balance sheet.
EXHIBIT "B-1"
(A) Detailed income and profit-and-loss
				statement for the twelve months ended as of the date of the balance sheet
				submitted as Exhibit "B."
(B)
				Reconcilement of the retained earnings account for the period covered by the
				income and profit-and-loss statement. Retained earnings should be segregated
				from other surplus accounts.
EXHIBIT "C"
1.A description of the property to be
				leased.
2.The historical or
				original cost of the property to be leased and the related accrued
				depreciation. (Estimated in both cases if actual amounts are not
				known.)
3.The amount of
				contributions in aid of construction.
4.Terms of the lease.
EXHIBIT "D"
Economic and financial justification for entering into the
				  proposed lease including a lease versus purchase analysis.
EXHIBIT "E"
Show such other facts that may be pertinent to the
				  application.
The undersigned applicant requests that the
								Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission enter an order granting this
								application.
Dated this day of
, 20.
By
(Applicant/Title)
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part V - METERING RULES › Section 480-100-308 - Meter location

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(1) Subject to the
				utilities' requirements, customers must provide a place to install the metering
				equipment that is:
(a) Readily accessible to
				utility employees without risks of bodily harm; and
(b) Free from vibration, corrosive
				atmosphere, and abnormal temperatures.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part V - METERING RULES › Section 480-100-313 - Meter charges

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(1) An electric
				utility will make no charge for furnishing and installing the meter or meters
				required to determine the customer's usage for billing of electric service in
				accordance with the utility's filed tariff. The utility may charge for
				additional meters requested by the customer or required by the utility's tariff
				for service beyond determining the customer's bill.
(2) No meter may be required on unmetered
				load.
Stautory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040 and
					 80.04.160. 01-11-004 (Docket No.
					 UE-990473, General Order No. R-482), § 480-100-313, filed 5/3/01,
					 effective 6/3/01.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part V - METERING RULES › Section 480-100-318 - Meter readings, multipliers, and test constants

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(1) Electric utilities must use electric
				meters or other such devices to accurately record or indicate the quantity of
				electricity sold to customers. Such measuring devices will allow utilities to
				calculate a customer's consumption in units of kilowatt hours or other units as
				filed in the company's tariffs.
(2)
				Electric utilities that decide to either measure a customer's consumption with
				a device that employs a multiplier or calculate consumption from recording
				devices must provide customers, upon request, information sufficient to enable
				the customer to compute the quantity consumed.
(3) Indirect reading meters and those that
				operate from instrument transformers must have the multiplier plainly marked on
				the dial of the instrument or be otherwise suitably marked.
(4) The watt-hour constant for the meter
				itself must be placed on all watt-hour meters (as specified in ANSI C12.1).
				Information about the ANSI C12.1 regarding the version adopted and where to
				obtain it is set out in WAC
				480-100-999
				Adoption by reference.
(5)
				Measuring devices that have the capability to do so must measure all energy
				sold to customers at a minimum of sixty-minute intervals for residential
				customers and fifteen-minute intervals for nonresidential customers.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040 and
					 80.04.160. 01-11-004 (Docket No.
					 UE-990473, General Order No. R-482), § 480-100-318, filed 5/3/01,
					 effective 6/3/01.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part V - METERING RULES › Section 480-100-328 - Meter identification

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Electric utilities must identify each meter by a unique
				  series of serial numbers, letters, or combination of both, placed in a
				  conspicuous position on the meter.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040 and
					 80.04.160. 01-11-004 (Docket No.
					 UE-990473, General Order No. R-482), § 480-100-328, filed 5/3/01,
					 effective 6/3/01.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part V - METERING RULES › Section 480-100-333 - Initial accuracy of electric meters

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All meters must be in good order and adjusted to register as
				  nearly correct as practicable prior to being put into service or returned to
				  service following testing or other work. All meters in service must be sealed
				  by the use of a sealing device acceptable to the commission.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040 and
					 80.04.160. 01-11-004 (Docket No.
					 UE-990473, General Order No. R-482), § 480-100-333, filed 5/3/01,
					 effective 6/3/01.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part V - METERING RULES › Section 480-100-338 - Accuracy requirements for electric meters

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(1)
Watt-hour meter accuracy.
(a) The requirements for watt-hour meters
				used for measuring electrical quantities supplied include, but are not limited
				to:
(i) All meters must be of proper design
				for the circuit on which they are used, be in good mechanical and/or electronic
				condition, have adequate insulation, correct internal connections, and correct
				register;
(ii) Mechanical meters
				must not creep at "no load" more than one full revolution of the disk in five
				minutes:
(A) When the load wires are
				disconnected and potential is impressed; or
(B) In a shop test where the load wires are
				disconnected and the permissible voltage variation is impressed;
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part V - METERING RULES › Section 480-100-343 - Statement of meter test procedures

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(1)
				Electric utilities must include in their tariffs a statement describing their
				practices under these rules covering:
(a) A
				description of methods used and frequency of tests for determining electric
				meter accuracy. The description must include, but is not limited to:
(i) Test group detail and selection
				procedures;
(ii) Performance
				standard details for meters that exceed the maximum allowable tolerance for
				slow as well as fast meters;
(iii)
				The corrective action and time period in which such action will be implemented;
				and
(iv) Reference to an industry
				standard such as ANSI C12.1 or ANSI/[isrt]ASQC-Z1.9 that will establish
				acceptable criteria for numerical analysis. Information about the ANSI C12.1
				regarding the version adopted and where to obtain it is set out in WAC
				480-100-999, Adoption by
				reference.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part V - METERING RULES › Section 480-100-353 - Meter history records

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(1)
				Electric utilities must keep records showing the history of each meter
				purchased and installed. Such records must be maintained for the life of the
				meter plus three months. The forms of such records are subject to commission
				approval and must contain the following information at a minimum:
(a) The approximate date of
				purchase;
(b) The manufacturer's
				name and meter number or the utility's own unique meter identification
				number;
(c) The place(s) of
				installation; and
(d) The readings
				at the time of each installation and each removal.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VI - SAFETY AND STANDARDS RULES › Section 480-100-358 - Instrument transformers

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(1) Instrument
				transformers used in conjunction with metering equipment to measure customers'
				service must:
(a) Be in proper mechanical
				condition and have electrical insulation satisfactory for the service in which
				they are used; and
(b) Have
				characteristics such that the combined inaccuracies of all transformers
				supplying one or more meters in a given installation will not exceed the
				following:
100% Power Factor
50% Power Factor
10%
Current
100%
Current
10%
Current
100%
Current
1.5% error
0.75% error
3.0% error
2.0% error
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VI - SAFETY AND STANDARDS RULES › Section 480-100-363 - Portable indicating instruments

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(1)
				Electric utilities must maintain in reasonable working order all portable
				indicating electrical instruments used to determine quality of electrical
				service, such as volt meters, ammeters, and watt meters, and all fixed-location
				meter testing equipment in use and, if in question, must check it against
				suitable reference standards. If suitable reference standards are not available
				within the utility, the utility must check its portable instruments at a
				standardizing laboratory meeting specifications recommended by the meter
				manufacturer.
(2) Electric
				utilities must adjust portable analog indicating instruments that are found
				appreciably in error at zero. If a portable analog indicating instrument is in
				error by more than one percent at commonly used scale deflections, the electric
				utility must adjust it, unless the instrument is accompanied by a calibration
				card.
(3) Electrical utilities must
				maintain in good working order, as specified by the manufacturer of such
				instruments, all portable indicating electrical instruments used for purposes
				other than determining the quality of electrical service, such as instruments
				primarily for the safety of workers.
(4) Electric utilities must keep history and
				calibration records for each portable indicating electrical instrument used to
				determine quality of electrical service as defined in subsection (1) of this
				section, as long as the instrument is in service.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040 and
					 80.04.160. 01-11-004 (Docket No.
					 UE-990473, General Order No. R-482), § 480-100-363, filed 5/3/01,
					 effective 6/3/01.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VI - SAFETY AND STANDARDS RULES › Section 480-100-368 - Standard frequency

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Any electric utility supplying alternating current must
				  design and maintain its distribution system for a standard operating frequency
				  of sixty cycles per second under normal operating conditions.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040 and
					 80.04.160. 01-11-004 (Docket No.
					 UE-990473, General Order No. R-482), § 480-100-368, filed 5/3/01,
					 effective 6/3/01.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VI - SAFETY AND STANDARDS RULES › Section 480-100-373 - Standard voltage and permissible variation

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(1) Voltage means the voltage existing with
				loads operating under stable conditions. Each electric utility must adopt
				standard voltages for its different classes of standard voltage service and
				file these standards with the commission in the form of tariffs.
(2) Electric utilities must maintain the
				voltage on their distribution system reasonably constant and any allowed
				variation must be a gradual change in voltage as a result of normal changes in
				load.
The voltage on each primary distribution feeder must be
				  maintained as follows:
(a) Voltage
				variations may not be more than five percent above or below the standard
				voltage adopted; and
(b) The total
				voltage variation from minimum to maximum value may not exceed eight percent of
				the standard voltage.
A utility may allow greater voltage variation than that
				  specified in this rule in case of emergency service or when service is supplied
				  directly from a transmission line. A utility may also permit greater voltage
				  variations in an area where the revenues received do not justify close voltage
				  regulation. In such cases, electric utilities must provide the best voltage
				  regulation that is economically and technically practicable under the
				  circumstances.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VI - SAFETY AND STANDARDS RULES › Section 480-100-378 - Accuracy of test standards

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(1)
				Electrical utilities must provide the commission with a written statement of
				their practices under these rules covering:
(a) A description of test standards and meter
				testing equipment, if maintained by the electrical utility;
(b) A description of methods employed to
				ascertain and maintain the accuracy of the test standards and meter testing
				equipment, including the frequency of such tests, if the electrical utility
				chooses to maintain its own such standards and equipment rather than use the
				services of a certified testing laboratory.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VI - SAFETY AND STANDARDS RULES › Section 480-100-383 - Reports of accidents

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Each electric utility must notify the commission orally or by
				  electronic mail no later than the second business day following discovery of
				  any accident that results in death or serious injury to any person occurring in
				  its plant or through electrical contact with its facilities. Electric utilities
				  must submit a follow-up written report to the commission within fifteen
				  business days of initial notification that includes, at a minimum:
(1) The name and address of the person or
				persons injured;
(2) The time and
				place of the accident;
(3) Whether
				the accident resulted in a fatality;
(4) A brief description of how the accident
				occurred; and
(5) A brief
				description of any necessary medical treatment that was provided.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040 and
					 80.04.160. 01-11-004 (Docket No.
					 UE-990473, General Order No. R-482), § 480-100-383, filed 5/3/01,
					 effective 6/3/01.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VI - SAFETY AND STANDARDS RULES › Section 480-100-388 - Electric service reliability definitions

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"Electric service reliability" means the continuity of
				  electric service experienced by retail customers.
"Reliability statistic" means a number, which may include
				  multiple components (for example, service interruptions, customers, and hours),
				  that measures electric service reliability.
"Baseline reliability statistic" means a number calculated by
				  the utility measuring aspects of electric service reliability in a specified
				  year that may be used as a comparison for measuring electric service
				  reliability in subsequent years.
"Sustained interruption" means an interruption to electric
				  service that has a length of duration specified by the electric utility, but in
				  any case not less than one minute.
"Power quality" means characteristics of electricity,
				  primarily voltage and frequency, that must meet certain specifications for
				  safe, adequate and efficient operations.
"Full-system" means all equipment and lines necessary to
				  serve retail customers whether for the purpose of generation, transmission,
				  distribution or individual service.
"Major event" means an event, such as a storm, that causes
				  serious reliability problems, and that meets criteria established by the
				  utility for such an event.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040. 01-08-009 (Docket No. UE-991168,
					 General Order No. R-478), § 480-100-388, filed 3/22/01, effective
					 4/22/01.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VI - SAFETY AND STANDARDS RULES › Section 480-100-393 - Electric service reliability monitoring and reporting plan

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(1) Who must file.
				Electric utilities subject to commission jurisdiction must file a plan for
				monitoring and reporting electric service reliability information to the
				commission.
(2) When to file. The
				plan for monitoring and reporting electric service reliability information must
				be filed with the commission six months after the effective date of this rule,
				though utilities are encouraged to file the plan sooner. Any modification to
				the plan must be filed with the commission before the modification is
				implemented.
(3) What to file. The
				utility must file a plan for monitoring and reporting electric service
				reliability information to the commission. The plan, and any modification to
				it, must be accepted by the commission. The plan must include the following
				items:
(a) What reliability statistics and
				information the utility will report to the commission. The utility must select
				and define statistics that track full-system reliability, and information,
				which may include statistics, that tracks localized reliability and identifies
				areas of greatest reliability concern.
(b) When the utility will establish baseline
				reliability statistics to report to the commission. Prior to establishing
				baseline reliability statistics, the utility must report the best information
				available. The utility must establish baseline reliability statistics within
				three years of the effective date of this rule.
(c) When the utility will file its annual
				electric service reliability report to the commission.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VI - SAFETY AND STANDARDS RULES › Section 480-100-398 - Electric service reliability reports

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The electric utility must file an electric service
				  reliability report with the commission at least once a year. The report must
				  meet the following conditions:
(1) The
				report must be consistent with the electric service reliability monitoring and
				reporting plan filed under WAC
				480-100-393. As set forth in the
				plan, in an identified year, baseline reliability statistics must be
				established and reported. In subsequent years, new reliability statistics must
				be compared to the baseline reliability statistics and to reliability
				statistics from all intervening years. The utility must maintain historical
				reliability information necessary to show trends for a minimum of seven
				years.
(2) The report must address
				any changes that the utility may make in the collection of data and calculation
				of reliability information after initial baselines are set. The utility must
				explain why the changes occurred and explain how the change is expected to
				affect comparisons of the newer and older information. Additionally, to the
				extent practical, the utility must quantify the effect of such changes on the
				comparability of new reliability statistics to baseline reliability
				statistics.
(3) The report must
				identify the utility's geographic areas of greatest reliability concern,
				explain their causes, and explain how the utility plans to address
				them.
(4) The report must identify
				the total number of customer complaints about reliability and power quality
				made to the utility during the year, and must distinguish between complaints
				about sustained interruptions and power quality. The report must also identify
				complaints that were made about major events.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040. 01-08-009 (Docket No. UE-991168,
					 General Order No. R-478), § 480-100-398, filed 3/22/01, effective
					 4/22/01.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VII - GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS › Section 480-100-415 - Electrical company applications for commission determination outside of a general rate case of electric generation resource compliance with greenhouse gas emissions performance standard

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(1)
				Any electrical company may apply for a determination by the commission outside
				of a general rate case of whether an electric generation resource it proposes
				to acquire as a long-term financial commitment complies with the greenhouse gas
				emissions performance standard, including whether the resource is baseload
				electric generation.
(2) If an
				electrical company submits an application under this subsection regarding a
				long-term financial commitment with multiple power plants, each power plant
				will be considered individually in determining:
(a) Annualized plant capacity
				factor;
(b) Net
				emissions;
(c) Compliance with
				RCW
				80.80.040(1) except as
				provided in
				RCW
				80.80.040(3) through
				(5).
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VII - GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS › Section 480-100-425 - Electrical company applications for exemption from the greenhouse gas emissions performance standard

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(1)
				An electrical company may apply to the commission for a case-by-case exemption
				from the greenhouse gas emissions performance standard to address:
(a) Unanticipated electric system reliability
				needs; or
(b) Extraordinary cost
				impacts on utility ratepayers; or
(c) Catastrophic events or threat of
				significant financial harm that may arise from unforeseen
				circumstances.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VII - GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS › Section 480-100-435 - Electrical company deferral of costs associated with long-term financial commitments - Notice and reporting

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(1)
				An electrical company may account for and defer for later consideration by the
				commission costs incurred in connection with a long-term financial commitment
				for:
(a) Baseload electric generation;
				or
(b) An eligible renewable
				resource as defined in
				RCW
				19.285.030 that the electrical company owns
				or has entered a power purchase agreement for a term of five or more
				years.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VII - GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS › Section 480-100-505 - Smart grid technology report

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(1)
				Purpose. The purpose of this section is to establish requirements for each
				electric utility to submit periodic reports to the commission of the utility's
				evaluation of smart grid technologies that are available or likely soon to be
				available and any plans for implementing smart grid technologies affecting or
				applicable to ratepayers of Washington state.
(2) Definitions.
(a) "Smart grid function" means one or more
				of the following:
(i) The ability to develop,
				store, send and receive digital information concerning electricity use, costs,
				prices, time of use, nature of use, storage, or other information relevant to
				management of the electricity grid, utility operations, or customer energy
				use.
(ii) The ability to sense
				local disruptions or changes in power flows on the electricity grid and to
				communicate such information instantaneously and automatically for purposes of
				enabling automatic protective responses or to inform the utility to make manual
				changes to sustain reliability and security or improve efficiency of grid
				operations.
(iii) The ability of
				the utility to deliver signals, measurements or communications to allow an
				end-use load device to respond automatically or in a manner programmed by its
				owner or operator without human action.
(iv) The ability to use digital information
				to operate functions on the electricity grid that were previously
				electromechanical or manual.
(v)
				The ability to use digital controls to manage and modify electricity demand,
				enable congestion management, assist in voltage control, provide operating
				reserves, or provide frequency regulation.
(vi) The ability to use two-way communication
				to enable different customer contracts or programs, such as real time prices or
				demand response programs.
(vii) The
				ability to manage new end-use services to reduce operating or power costs,
				improve reliability, or improve energy efficiency, such as charging electric
				vehicles.
(viii) The ability to use
				real time measurement of power generated from customer-owned power facilities
				to reduce operating or power cost, improve energy efficiency, or improve
				reliability.
(ix) The ability to
				use digital information to improve the reliability or efficiency of generating
				equipment in an integrated manner to improve flexibility, functionality,
				interoperability, cyber-security, situational awareness, and operational
				efficiency of the transmission and distribution system.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VIII - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION › Section 480-100-600 - Purpose

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The purpose of these rules is to ensure that the utility
				  meets the clean energy transformation standards outlined in WAC 480-100-610 in
				  a timely manner and at the lowest reasonable cost.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040,
					 80.04.160,
					 and chapters 80.28, 19.280, and 19.405 RCW. WSR 2102-022 (Dockets UE-191023 and
					 UE-190698, General Order 601), § 480-100-600, filed 12/28/20, effective
					 12/31/20.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VIII - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION › Section 480-100-610 - Clean energy transformation standards

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(1) On or before December 31, 2025, each
				utility must eliminate coal-fired resources from its allocation of electricity
				to Washington retail electric customers;
(2) By January 1, 2030, each utility must
				ensure all retail sales of electricity to Washington electric customers are
				greenhouse gas neutral;
(3) By
				January 1, 2045, each utility must ensure that nonemitting electric generation
				and electricity from renewable resources supply 100 percent of all retail sales
				of electricity to Washington electric customers;
(4) In making progress toward and meeting
				subsections (2) and (3) of this section, each utility must:
(a) Pursue all cost-effective, reliable, and
				feasible conservation and efficiency resources and demand response;
(b) Maintain and protect the safety, reliable
				operation, and balancing of the electric system; and
(c) Ensure that all customers are benefiting
				from the transition to clean energy through:
(i) The equitable distribution of energy and
				nonenergy benefits and reduction of burdens to vulnerable populations and
				highly impacted communities;
(ii)
				Long-term and short-term public health and environmental benefits and reduction
				of costs and risks; and
(iii)
				Energy security and resiliency.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VIII - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION › Section 480-100-625 - Integrated resource plan development and timing

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(1)
Timing.
Unless otherwise
				ordered by the commission, each electric utility must file an integrated
				resource plan (IRP) with the commission by January 1, 2021, and every four
				years thereafter.
(2)
IRP
				work plan.
No later than 15 months prior to the due date of its IRP, the
				utility must file a work plan that includes advisory group input and outlines
				the content of the IRP and expectations for the subsequent two-year progress
				report. The utility must include the following in its work plan:
(a) The methods for assessing potential
				resources;
(b) A proposed schedule
				of meetings for the utility's resource planning advisory group and equity
				advisory group, as established in WAC 480-100-655(1)(b), for the IRP;
(c) A list of significant topics, consistent
				with WAC 480-100-620, that will be discussed at each advisory group meeting for
				the IRP;
(d) The date the draft IRP
				will be filed with the commission;
(e) The date the final IRP will be
				filed;
(f) A link to the utility's
				website, updated in a timely manner, to which the utility posts and makes
				publicly available information related to the IRP, including information
				outlined in subsection (5) of this section;
(g) If the utility anticipates significant
				changes in the work-plan, it must file an updated workplan.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VIII - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION › Section 480-100-630 - Integrated resource planning advisory groups

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(1) The utility must demonstrate and document
				how it considered input from advisory group members in the development of its
				IRP and two-year progress report. Examples of how the utility may incorporate
				advisory group input include using modeling scenarios, sensitivities, and
				assumptions advisory group members proposed and using data and information
				supplied by advisory group members as inputs to plan development. As part of
				this process and consistent with WAC 480-100-625(5), the utility must
				communicate to advisory group members about whether and how the utility used
				their input in its analysis and decision making, including explanations for why
				the utility did not use an advisory group member's input.
(2) The utility must make available completed
				presentation materials for each advisory group meeting at least three business
				days prior to the meeting. The utility may update materials as
				needed.
(3) The utility must make
				all its data inputs and files used to develop its IRP available to the
				commission in native file format, per
				RCW
				19.280.030(10)(a) and (b),
				and in an easily accessible format. The utility may make confidential
				information available by providing it to the commission pursuant to WAC
				480-07-160.
				The utility should minimize its designation of information in the IRP as
				confidential. Nonconfidential contents of the IRP, two-year progress report,
				and supporting documentation as well as nonconfidential data inputs and files
				must be available for advisory group member review in an easily accessible
				format upon request. Nothing in this subsection limits the protection of
				records containing commercial information under
				RCW
				80.04.095.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040,
					 80.04.160,
					 and chapters 80.28, 19.280, and 19.405 RCW. WSR 2102-022 (Dockets UE-191023 and
					 UE-190698, General Order 601), § 480-100-630, filed 12/28/20, effective
					 12/31/20.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VIII - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION › Section 480-100-640 - Content of a clean energy implementation plan (CEIP)

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(1)
Filing requirements -
				General.
Unless otherwise ordered by the commission, each electric
				utility must file with the commission a CEIP by October 1, 2021, and every four
				years thereafter. The CEIP describes the utility's plan for making progress
				toward meeting the clean energy transformation standards and is informed by the
				utility's clean energy action plan. The information and documents described in
				each subsection below must be included in each CEIP.
(2)
Interim targets.
(a) Each utility must propose a series of
				interim targets that:
(i) Demonstrate how the
				utility will make reasonable progress toward meeting the standards identified
				in WAC 480-100-610(2) and (3); and
(ii) Are consistent with WAC
				480-100-610(4).
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VIII - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION › Section 480-100-645 - Process for review of CEIP and updates

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(1)
Public comment.
Interested
				persons may file written comments with the commission regarding a utility's
				CEIP and biennial CEIP update within sixty days of the utility's filing unless
				the commission states otherwise.
(2)
Approval process.
The
				utility's CEIP and biennial CEIP update filing will be set for an open public
				meeting. On the commission's own motion or at the request of any person who has
				a substantial interest in the subject matter of the filing, the commission will
				initiate an adjudication, or if appropriate a brief adjudicative proceeding, to
				consider the filing. The commission will enter an order approving, rejecting,
				or approving with conditions the utility's CEIP or CEIP update at the
				conclusion of its review. The commission may, in its order, recommend or
				require more stringent targets than those the utility proposes.
(a) The commission may adjust or expedite
				interim and specific target timelines when issuing a decision on a CEIP or
				biennial CEIP updates.
(b) Any
				party requesting the commission make existing targets more stringent or adjust
				existing timelines has the burden of demonstrating the utility can achieve the
				targets or timelines in a manner consistent with the requirements of
				RCW
				19.405.060(1)(c)(i) through
				(iv).
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VIII - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION › Section 480-100-660 - Incremental cost of compliance

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(1)
Incremental cost methodology.
To determine the incremental cost of
				the actions a utility takes to comply with
				RCW
				19.405.040 and
				19.405.050,
				the utility must compare its lowest reasonable cost portfolio to the
				alternative lowest reasonable cost and reasonably available portfolio. The
				utility should use a portfolio optimization model, such as the one used in its
				most recent IRP, as the basis for calculating the alternative lowest reasonable
				cost and reasonably available portfolio to show the difference in portfolio
				choices and investment needs between the two portfolios, and demonstrate which
				investments and expenses are directly attributable costs to meet the
				requirements of
				RCW
				19.405.040 and
				19.405.050.
(a) The utility may include in its
				documentation of both portfolios those investments and expenses that are not
				reflected in the portfolio optimization if the utility demonstrates that the
				investment or expense could not reasonably have been reflected in the portfolio
				optimization model.
(b) If the
				portfolios provided are the result of a model, the utility must provide a fully
				linked and electronically functional copy of that model as part of its
				workpapers.
(c) The utility may
				propose an alternative incremental cost methodology if it can demonstrate that
				it meets the requirements of a methodology as described in
				RCW
				19.405.060(3) and (5), and
				that it will comply with
				RCW
				19.405.040 and
				19.405.050
				at the lowest reasonable cost.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part VIII - PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION › Section 480-100-665 - Enforcement

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(1)
General.
The commission may take enforcement action in response to
				a utility's failure to comply with the provisions of chapter 19.405 RCW, this
				chapter of the commission's rules, or a commission order implementing those
				requirements.
(2)
Procedure.
The commission may take enforcement action in the
				following types of proceedings:
(a)
Complaint.
The commission may bring a complaint against the
				utility pursuant to
				RCW
				80.04.380 and WAC
				480-07-300, et
				seq.
(b)
Penalty
				assessment.
The commission may assess penalties as provided in
				RCW
				80.04.405 and WAC
				480-07-915.
(c)
Other.
The commission may
				take enforcement action in any proceeding in which the utility's compliance
				with the provisions of chapter 19.405 RCW, this chapter of the commission's
				rules, or a commission order implementing those requirements is at issue
				including, but not limited to, the utility's general rate case.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-100 - Electric companies › Part IX - ADOPTION BY REFERENCE › Section 480-100-999 - Adoption by reference

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In this chapter, the commission adopts by reference all or
				  portions of regulations and standards identified below. The publications,
				  effective date, references within this chapter, and availability of the
				  resources are as follows:
(1)
Title 18 Code of Federal Regulations,
cited as 18 C.F.R.,
				including all appendices and amendments is published by the United States
				Government Publishing Office.
(a) The
				commission adopts the version in effect on April 1, 2023.
(b) The accounting and reporting for the
				types of transactions and events covered by the amendment should not be
				construed as indicative of their treatment by this commission for ratemaking
				purposes.
(c) This publication is
				referenced in WAC
				480-100-203 (Accounting system
				requirements), WAC
				480-100-244 (Transferring cash or
				assuming obligations), WAC
				480-100-252 (Federal Energy
				Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form No. 1), and WAC
				480-100-268 (Essential utilities
				services contracts report).
(d)
				Copies of Title 18 Code of Federal Regulations are available from the U.S.
				Government Publishing Office in Washington D.C., or online at
https://www.gpo.gov/
, and from
				various third-party vendors. It is also available for inspection at the
				commission library.