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Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 2 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Overhead Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 23 - Clearances › Section PSC 114.234 - Clearance of wires, conductors, cables, and equipment from buildings, bridges, rail cars, swimming pools, and other installations

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) CLEARANCES.
					 [NESC 234C1a, p. 128] (Change) Change paragraph (1) (a) to read:
(a)
Clearances.
Unguarded or
					 accessible wires, conductors, cables, or rigid live parts may be located
					 adjacent to buildings, signs, billboards, chimneys, radio and television
					 antenna, tanks, flagpoles and flags, banners and other installations and any
					 projections therefrom. The vertical and horizontal clearances of such rigid and
					 nonrigid parts shall be not less than the values in Table 234-1 when at rest
					 under the conditions specified in Rule 234A1.These facilities may be installed
					 beside, over or under buildings, building projections and other installation,
					 as illustrated in Figs. 234-1(a) and 234-1(b) and 234-1(c). Buildings, signs,
					 billboards, chimneys, radio and television antennas, tanks, flagpoles and
					 flags, banners and other installations and any projections therefrom shall not
					 be located near existing wires, conductors, cables or rigid live parts if doing
					 so results in clearances less than the values given in Table 234-1.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 2 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Overhead Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 23 - Clearances › Section PSC 114.235 - Clearance for wires, conductors, or cables carried on the same supporting structure

Current through June 24, 2024
[NESC 235C2b(1)(b) Exception 2, p. 162] (Change) Change
						Exception 2 to read:
Exception 2: For supply conductors of different
						utilities, vertical clearance at any point in the span need not exceed 75% of
						the values required at the supports for the same utility by Table 235-5.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 2 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Overhead Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 24 - Grades of Construction › Section PSC 114.242 - Grades of construction for conductors

Current through June 24, 2024
[Follows NESC 242F, p. 199] (Addition) Following NESC
						242F, add the following paragraph G to read:
G. Circuits exceeding 175 kV to ground
Grade B construction shall always be used if the voltage
						exceeds 175 kV to ground.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 2 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Overhead Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 25 - Loading for Grades B and C › Section PSC 114.253 - Load factors for structures, cross arms, support hardware, guys, foundations, and anchors

Current through June 24, 2024
Table PSC 114.253 -1 [NESC Table 253-1, p. 225] Load
						factors for structures 1, crossarms, support hardware, guys, foundations, and
						anchors to be used with the strength factors of Table 261-1 (Changes)
(1) Change Footnote 2 to read:
2For guys and anchors
						associated with structures supporting communications conductors and cables
						only, this factor may be reduced to 1.33. For guys associated with structures
						supporting supply conductors or supply conductors and communications conductors
						and cables, this factor may be reduced to 1.5.
(2) Add Footnote 9 to read:
9For guys associated with
						structures supporting only supply conductors or supply conductors and
						communications conductors and cables, this factor may be reduced to
						2.00.
(3) The reference to
					 Footnote 9 is added to the value located at Transverse loads, Wind for Grade C,
					 At crossings.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 2 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Overhead Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 26 - Strength Requirements (Repealed) › Section PSC 114.261 - Strength factors for structures, crossarms, braces, support hardware, guys, foundations, and anchors (Repealed)

Current through June 24, 2024
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 3 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 30 - Purpose, Scope, and Application of Rules › Section PSC 114.302 - Application of rules

Current through June 24, 2024
[NESC 302, p. 247] (Change) Change Rule 302 to
						read:
302. Application of Rules
The general requirements for application of these rules
						are contained in s.
						PSC
						114.005.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 3 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 31 - General Requirements Applying to Underground Lines › Section PSC 114.310 - Referenced sections

Current through June 24, 2024
[NESC 310, p. 248] (Change) Change Rule 310 to
						read:
310. Referenced Sections
The Introduction (Section 1) as amended by s.
						PSC
						114.010, Definitions (Section 2) as amended by Section
						2 of Chapter
						PSC 114, List of Referenced
						Documents (Section 3), and Grounding Methods (Section 9) as amended by Section
						9 of Chapter
						PSC 114, shall apply to the
						requirements of Part 3.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 3 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 32 - Underground Conduit Systems (Repealed) › Section PSC 114.320 - Separation from other underground installations (Repealed)

Current through June 24, 2024
The definition of gas "transmission line,"
						  "distribution line," and "service line", as used herein, is the same as that
						  found in 49 CFR 192.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 3 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 32 - Underground Conduit Systems (Repealed) › Section PSC 114.323 - Manholes, handholes, and vaults (Repealed)

Current through June 24, 2024
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 3 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 35 - Direct-Buried Cable › Section PSC 114.350 - General

Current through June 24, 2024
[NESC 350F, p. 263] (Change) Change paragraph F to
						read:
F. All direct-buried jacketed
					 supply cable meeting Rule 350B and all direct-buried communication cables shall
					 be legibly marked as follows:
The appropriate identification symbol shown in Fig 350-1
						shall be indented or embossed in the outermost cable jacket at a spacing of not
						more than 1m (40 in). The symbol may be separate or sequentially combined with
						other data, or symbols, or both, printed on the jacket. If the symbol is
						sequentially combined, it shall be separated as indicated in Fig 350-1. If
						optional supplemental striping is used, only supply cables or non-metallic duct
						containing or intended to contain supply cables may have three equally
						separated longitudinal red stripes.
This rule applies to cable installed on or after January
						1, 1996.
Exception 1: Cables with jackets that cannot be
						effectively marked in accordance with Rules 350F need not be marked.
Exception 2: Unmarked cable from stock existing prior to
						1 January 1996 may be used to repair unmarked direct-buried jacketed supply
						cables and communication cables.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 3 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 35 - Direct-Buried Cable › Section PSC 114.352 - Installation

Current through June 24, 2024
Table PSC 114.352 -1 [NESC Table 352-1, p. 266] Supply
						cable, conductor, or duct burial depth (Change and Addition)
(1) Change the present "Exception" after the
					 table to "Exception 1".
(2) Add a
					 new Exception 2 as follows:
(3)
					 (Addition) Add Note to read:
Grounding and bonding conductors are covered by Rule
						  093.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 3 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 35 - Direct-Buried Cable › Section PSC 114.353 - Deliberate separations-Equal to or greater than 300 mm (12 in) from underground structures or other cables

Current through June 24, 2024
[Follows NESC 353D, p. 267] (Addition) Following NESC
						353D, add the following paragraph E to read:
E. Gas lines
The separation in any direction of gas pipelines from
						direct- buried electric supply and communication facilities shall be a minimum
						of 0.3 m (12 in).
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 3 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 35 - Direct-Buried Cable › Section PSC 114.354 - Random separation - separation less than 300 mm (12 in) from underground structures or other cables

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) SUPPLY AND COMMUNICATION CABLES OR
					 CONDUCTORS. [NESC 354D1g, p. 268] (Change) Change paragraph g to read:
g. Adequate bonding shall be provided between
					 the effectively grounded supply conductor or conductors and the communication
					 cable shield or sheath at intervals that should not exceed 300 m (1,000 ft). At
					 each above or below grade transformer or above or below grade pedestal, all
					 existing grounds shall be interconnected. These include the primary neutral,
					 secondary neutral, power cable shield, metal duct, or sheath and communication
					 cable sheath. Communication protectors, communication service cable shields and
					 secondary neutrals shall be connected to a common ground at each customer's
					 service entrance when communication circuits are underground without separation
					 from power conductors.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 3 - Safety Rules for the Installation and Maintenance of Underground Electric Supply and Communication Lines › 38 - Equipment › Section PSC 114.381 - Design

Current through June 24, 2024
[Follows NESC 381G, p. 273] (Addition) Following NESC
						381G, add paragraph H to read:
H.
					 Warning signs
1. Where a padmounted
					 transformer, switchgear, pedestal, or similar above-grade enclosure is not
					 within a fenced or other protected area and contains live parts in excess of
					 600 volts, a permanent and conspicuous warning sign shall be provided on the
					 outside of the enclosure which meets the requirements as to format and color of
					 American National Standards Institute standard ANSI Z535.1-2011, ANSI
					 Z535.2-2011, ANSI Z535.3-2011, ANSI Z535.4-2011, and ANSI Z535.5-2011 for
					 safety signs.
2. Electric supply
					 equipment installed prior to July 1, 2003 shall be signed to comply with these
					 rules or the rule in effect in 2003. Warning signs installed as replacements or
					 installed on new facilities shall comply with the standard as prescribed in s.
					 PSC 114.381H 1 above. The "Mr. Ouch" symbol may be used as the optional
					 pictorial part of this sign.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 4 - Work Rules for the Operation of Electric Supply and Communications Lines and Equipment › 40 - Purpose and Scope › Section PSC 114.402 - Referenced sections

Current through June 24, 2024
[NESC 402, p. 277] (Change) Change first sentence of
						NESC Rule 402 to read:
The Introduction (Section 1) as amended by s.
						PSC
						114.010, Definitions (Section 2) as amended by Section
						2 of Chapter
						PSC 114, List of Referenced
						Documents (Section 3), and Grounding Methods (Section 9) as amended by Section
						9 of Chapter
						PSC 114, shall apply to the
						requirements of Part 4.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 114 - Wisconsin State Electrical Code, Volume 1 › Subchapter III - Omissions, Changes or Additions to NESC-2017 › Part 4 - Work Rules for the Operation of Electric Supply and Communications Lines and Equipment › 41 - Supply and Communications Systems-Rules for Employers › Section PSC 114.410 - General requirements

Current through June 24, 2024
[Follows NESC 410A3b Note 5, p.279] (Addition) Add the
						following clarifying note to Rule 410A3b:
It is the intent of this rule that the facility owner
						  and equipment owner cooperate to provide the necessary arc assessment of their
						  respective areas of responsibility where work is to be performed. Either the
						  facility owner or the equipment owner may request the appropriate information
						  from the other party and perform the assessment on behalf of the
						  other.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 115 - Radiological emergency preparedness expenses › Section PSC 115.02 - Applicability

Current through June 24, 2024
This chapter shall apply to the following electric
				utilities:
(1) Wisconsin Electric
			 Power Company.
(2) Wisconsin Public
			 Service Corporation.
(3) Wisconsin
			 Power and Light Company.
(4)
			 Northern States Power Company.
(5)
			 Madison Gas and Electric Company.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 115 - Radiological emergency preparedness expenses › Section PSC 115.03 - General criteria for authorizing expenditures for offsite radiological emergency preparedness

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) The commission shall authorize expenses
			 incurred by the utilities identified in s.
			 PSC
			 115.02(1) for the purposes set forth
			 in s.
			 PSC 115.01
			 to the extent that such expenses:
(a)
1. Are incurred by local governmental
			 authorities to establish and maintain radiological emergency preparedness plans
			 and do not exceed $350,000 in the aggregate for the year beginning July 1,
			 1981, and $250,000 in the aggregate for subsequent years.
2. Such costs shall be mutually agreed upon
			 by the local government and the utility owning, operating or dependent upon a
			 nuclear generating facility the Emergency Planning Zone of which is located
			 wholly or partially within the boundaries of the local government.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 115 - Radiological emergency preparedness expenses › Section PSC 115.04 - Appeals

Current through June 24, 2024
If any utility identified in s.
				PSC
				115.02 complains to the public service commission that
				local government costs are unreasonable, the commission shall investigate the
				complaint. If there appears to be sufficient basis for complaint, the
				commission shall set the matter for public hearing upon 10 days' notice to the
				complainant and the appropriate governmental agencies. After the hearing, if
				the commission determines that the costs complained of are unreasonable, the
				commission shall by order determine costs which may reasonably be included as
				necessary utility expenses for ratemaking purposes.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 116 - Fuel Cost › Section PSC 116.01 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
			 "Annual fuel cost" means actual fuel cost over a plan year.
(2) "Annual native system requirement" means
			 the native system requirement in megawatthours over a plan year.
(3) "Associated transmission service" means
			 the cost of transmission service incurred outside a utility's transmission
			 organization, but not any cost associated with a purchased power contract the
			 utility uses to meet its planning reserve requirement.
(4) "Average annual fuel cost" means the
			 annual fuel cost divided by the annual native system requirement.
(5) "Capacity" means the continuous
			 load-carrying ability of electric generation expressed in megawatts.
(6) "Commission" means the public service
			 commission.
(7) "Energy" means the
			 amount of electric generation over a period of time, expressed in
			 megawatthours.
(8) "Energy market
			 purchase" means the cost of purchasing energy or capacity, or both, used to
			 supply electricity to a customer served by the utility. The cost includes
			 marginal energy price, associated transmission service and transmission losses
			 and congestion. The cost excludes capacity or associated transmission service
			 purchased to satisfy a utility's planning reserve margin, as defined in s.
			 PSC
			 117.03(16).
(9) "Energy market sale" means an opportunity
			 sale, as defined in s.
			 PSC
			 117.03(14), whether it is an in-state
			 or out-of-state sale. The revenue from an energy market sale includes marginal
			 energy prices, transmission loss, congestion, associated transmission service,
			 and any other revenue resulting from the sale.
(10) "Excess revenues" means revenues in the
			 plan year that provide a utility with a greater return on common equity than
			 authorized by the commission. For the plan year, the following costs and
			 revenues are not included in the calculation of actual return on common equity
			 for the utility:
(a) Charitable contributions
			 and other donations not related to providing utility service.
(b) Penalties.
(c) Costs of political and related
			 activities.
(d) Promotional
			 advertising.
(e) Earnings or losses
			 from the operation of non-utility assets and gains or losses on the sale of
			 non-utility assets.
(f) Imprudently
			 incurred fuel costs.
(g) Earnings,
			 dividends, or distributions from any ownership interest that a utility may hold
			 in a transmission company, as defined in s.
			 196.485(1)
			 (ge), Stats., and any gains or profits a
			 utility may receive from the sale or other disposition of securities issued by
			 a transmission company.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 116 - Fuel Cost › Section PSC 116.02 - Fuel cost

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) For any month or longer period of time, a
			 utility shall calculate fuel cost as the net of the costs and credits for all
			 of the following during the time period:
(a)
			 Fuel.
(b) Energy market
			 purchase.
(c) Energy market
			 sale.
(d) Voluntary curtailable
			 load program, including any payment made to a retail customer under a tariff
			 authorized under s.
			 196.192(2)
			 (bm) 1, Stats.
(e) Direct load control program. In this
			 paragraph, "direct load control program" means an event-based,
			 payment-to-customers program under which a utility pays a firm customer to
			 reduce its electric demand when system constraints threaten reliable service.
			 The cost of a direct load control program includes all associated costs except
			 any associated equipment cost or standard monthly credit.
(f) Any tools to manage fuel cost price risk
			 implemented under a risk management plan approved by the commission and
			 included in the fuel cost plan.
(g)
			 Renewable resource credits.
(h)
			 Emission allowances, including allowances for sulfur dioxide and carbon
			 dioxide.
(i) The cost of chemicals
			 used to control emissions.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 116 - Fuel Cost › Section PSC 116.03 - Fuel cost plan

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) Annually, a utility shall file a proposed
			 fuel cost plan as part of an application to open or reopen a general rate case
			 proceeding or, if the utility does not file a general rate case, the utility
			 shall file a proposed fuel cost plan as part of a proceeding limited in scope
			 to fuel cost. A utility shall file a proposed fuel cost plan no more than 360
			 days or less than 150 days before the beginning of the plan year.
(2) A utility shall include in a proposed
			 fuel cost plan the following information for the plan year:
(a) A forecast of the average annual fuel
			 cost.
(b) A forecast of the annual
			 fuel cost by fuel type.
(c) A
			 forecast of the annual native system requirement. In a utility's reopened
			 general rate case proceeding or in a proceeding limited in scope to fuel cost,
			 the applicable annual native system requirement is the same as the
			 commission-approved forecast in the utility's most recently approved general
			 rate case proceeding.
(d) Detailed
			 input of the economic dispatch model used to forecast fuel cost.
(e) Detailed output of the economic dispatch
			 model used to forecast fuel cost.
(f) All inputs and allocators used to
			 calculate the forecast of the annual average fuel cost and the forecast of the
			 annual native system requirement.
(g) Associated transmission service purchased
			 or sold.
(h) Any other information
			 requested by the commission.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 116 - Fuel Cost › Section PSC 116.04 - Deferral accounting

Current through June 24, 2024
Subject to reconciliation under s.
				PSC
				116.07, a utility shall apply deferral accounting to
				all of its actual cost for items in an approved fuel cost plan and to all
				amounts collected or credited under ss.
				PSC
				116.07 and
				116.08.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 116 - Fuel Cost › Section PSC 116.05 - Reporting

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) A utility shall file a report with the
			 commission that includes the actual cost for items in an approved fuel cost
			 plan, native system requirement, and the use of items in the approved fuel cost
			 plan by item and energy source. The report shall also include the average
			 monthly figure for each category for the plan year to date.
(2) A utility shall file the report according
			 to a schedule the commission establishes. Upon written request, the commission
			 may grant a utility an extension of up to 30 days for the filing of a
			 report.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 116 - Fuel Cost › Section PSC 116.06 - Deferred account balance calculation

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) A deferred
			 account balance debit shall be calculated using the following formula:
If AAFC is [GREATER THAN EQUAL TO] (AAFCF x (1+FCT))
Then DABD = WJR x [AAFC - (AAFCF x (1 + FCT))]
Where DABD = Deferred account balance debit.
WJR = Wisconsin jurisdictional share of the annual native
				system requirement.
AAFC = Average annual fuel cost.
AAFCF = Forecast of the average annual fuel cost in the
				approved fuel cost plan.
FCT = Fuel cost tolerance.
(2) A deferred account balance credit shall
			 be calculated using the following formula:
If AAFC is < (AAFCF x (1-FCT))
Then DABC = WJR x [(AAFCF x (1 - FCT)) - AAFC]
Where DABC = Deferred account balance credit.
WJR = Wisconsin jurisdictional share of the annual native
				system requirement.
AAFC = Average annual fuel cost.
AAFCF = Forecast of the average annual fuel cost in the
				approved fuel cost plan.
FCT = Fuel cost tolerance.
(3) A utility's fuel cost tolerance shall be
			 set at plus or minus two percent, unless the commission sets a different
			 percentage when approving a fuel cost plan under s.
			 PSC
			 116.03(3).
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 116 - Fuel Cost › Section PSC 116.07 - Reconciliation

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) Annually, but no later than 90 days after
			 the end of the plan year, a utility shall file an application for the
			 reconciliation of actual cost for items in an approved fuel cost plan for the
			 plan year.
(2) The utility in its
			 application shall identify and explain the following:
(a) Fuel cost.
(b) Deferred account balances.
(c) Deferred account balance debit or
			 deferred account balance credit as of the end of the plan year.
(d) Excess revenues.
(e) Deviations from the approved fuel cost
			 plan, including differences in scheduled and in forced outage rates.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 116 - Fuel Cost › Section PSC 116.08 - Mid-year rate adjustment

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) The commission
			 may commence a proceeding to adjust rates for a utility during a plan year if
			 all of the following apply:
(a) During the
			 plan year the commission projects that the utility's average annual fuel cost
			 will differ materially from the forecast of the average annual fuel cost used
			 in an approved fuel cost plan.
(b)
			 The difference is due to extraordinary circumstances.
(c) The commission finds that the absolute
			 value, at current rates, of the difference at the end of the plan year between
			 the commission's projection of utility average annual fuel cost and the
			 commission's approved forecast of utility average annual fuel cost, as
			 specified in par. (a), likely will be of sufficient magnitude to cause a
			 material change to rates.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 117 - Assignment of costs and opportunity sales › Section PSC 117.01 - Scope

Current through June 24, 2024
This chapter implements s.
				196.03(5m),
				Stats., which requires the public service commission to promulgate
				administrative rules to consider the costs and revenues related to sales to
				out-of-state customers in setting rates for retail electric
				service.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 117 - Assignment of costs and opportunity sales › Section PSC 117.02 - Applicability

Current through June 24, 2024
This chapter applies to all electric public utilities as
				defined in s.
				196.01(5),
				Stats., with respect to sales transactions set forth in s.
				PSC
				117.01. The commission may also apply this chapter to
				sales to in-state customers that the utility does not have a duty to
				serve.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 117 - Assignment of costs and opportunity sales › Section PSC 117.04 - Responsibilities of the public utility

Current through June 24, 2024
In each rate proceeding before the commission that affects the
				selling public utility's retail rates, or at the request of the commission, the
				public utility shall have the burden to prove that a sale for which the public
				utility requests opportunity sales treatment, s.
				PSC
				117.05(2), qualifies as an
				opportunity sale. At a minimum, the public utility shall provide evidence that
				includes all of the following:
(1)
			 Information showing that the term of the contract does not extend more than 3
			 years, does not include an option for the purchaser to extend the term of the
			 contract to more than three years and does not include a provision which
			 automatically extends the term of the contract to more than 3 years.
(2) Information showing that excess capacity
			 to supply the sale existed at the time the sales contract was signed by the
			 selling utility and that available excess capacity was reasonably expected to
			 exist during the entire term of the contract.
(3) An analysis comparing the forecasted
			 revenues expected to be earned as a result of the sale with the forecasted
			 incremental costs to the public utility supplying the sale. This analysis shall
			 be presented for each annual period covered by the sale. The analysis must
			 include supporting calculation for both the forecasted revenues and the
			 forecasted incremental costs, and explanations of any underlying assumptions
			 made for the analysis.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 117 - Assignment of costs and opportunity sales › Section PSC 117.05 - Revenues and costs allocations

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) In each rate
			 proceeding involving the public utility that requests opportunity sales
			 treatment, under s. PSC 117.05(2), for a sale to a non-native customer, the
			 commission shall determine whether the sale qualifies as an opportunity
			 sale.
(2) For every sale that
			 qualifies as an opportunity sale, the commission shall reflect the greater of
			 revenues received from the sale or the incremental costs associated with the
			 sale as a revenue credit in the jurisdictional cost-of-service study when
			 determining the public utility's Wisconsin retail revenue requirement.
			 Opportunity sales revenue credits shall also be taken into account under the
			 provisions of the fuel rules.
(3)
			 For every sale that qualifies as a fully-allocated sale, the commission shall
			 assign to the sale a proportionate share of the public utility's total revenue
			 requirements in the jurisdictional cost-of-service study when determining the
			 public utility's Wisconsin retail revenue requirement.
The Wisconsin retail revenue requirement of a public utility
				  is the level of forecasted revenues that are necessary for the public utility
				  to recover, from its retail customers in Wisconsin, its just and reasonable
				  costs of providing adequate service and facilities to those customers, as
				  determined by the commission.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 118 - Renewable Resource Credit Tracking Program › Section PSC 118.01 - Scope

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) This chapter applies to each Wisconsin
			 electric provider that is subject to s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats., and to any member or customer of
			 an electric provider.
(2) The
			 commission may consider exceptional or unusual situations and may, by order,
			 apply different requirements to an individual facility than those provided in
			 this chapter.
(3) This chapter
			 should be construed liberally in favor of the creation of RRCs.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 118 - Renewable Resource Credit Tracking Program › Section PSC 118.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The definitions specified in s.
				196.378,
				Stats., apply to this chapter. In addition, in this chapter:
(1e) "Biogas" means a gas created by the
			 anaerobic digestion or fermentation of biomass, food processing waste or
			 discarded food.
(1m) "Certified
			 displacement facility" means a displacement facility that the commission
			 certifies under s.
			 PSC
			 118.055.
(1s) "Certified renewable facility" means an
			 electric generating facility that the commission certifies under s.
			 PSC
			 118.05.
(2) "Compliance period" means a calendar
			 year, beginning January 1, during which an electric provider is required to
			 achieve a renewable energy percentage under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats.
(3) "Commission" means the public service
			 commission.
(3m) "Densified fuel
			 pellets" means pellets made from waste material that does not include garbage,
			 as defined in s.
			 289.01(9),
			 Stats., and that contains no more than 30 percent fixed carbon.
(4) "Designated representative" means the
			 person authorized by the electric provider to register a renewable facility or
			 non-electric facility with the program administrator, or to purchase or sell
			 renewable energy certificates or RRCs.
(5) "Displaced conventional electricity"
			 means electricity derived from conventional resources that an electric
			 provider, or a customer or member of the electric provider, would have used
			 except that the person used instead a certified displacement
			 facility.
(5g) "Displacement
			 facility" means any of the following when used by an electric provider, or by a
			 customer or member of the electric provider:
(a) A solar water heater.
(b) A solar light pipe.
(c) A ground source heat pump.
(d) An installation generating thermal output
			 from biomass, biogas, synthetic gas, densified fuel pellets, or fuel produced
			 by pyrolysis.
(dm) An installation
			 that recovers heat that is a byproduct of a manufacturing process.
(e) Any other installation under s.
			 196.378(3) (a)
			 1m, Stats., identified by the commission that
			 meets the criteria specified in this chapter.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 118 - Renewable Resource Credit Tracking Program › Section PSC 118.03 - Facilities eligible for the minimum percentage requirement and for creating renewable resource credits

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) An electric
			 provider may use the output of a renewable facility to meet a minimum
			 percentage requirement under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats., or to create an RRC for
			 renewable energy only if the renewable facility that is the source of the
			 electric provider's renewable energy meets all of the following requirements:
(a) The energy output of the renewable
			 facility is physically metered and the accuracy of the metering is subject to
			 verification by the program administrator or the commission.
(b) The renewable facility registers with,
			 and is certified by, the commission under s. PSC118.05.
(c) The renewable facility is owned or
			 operated by the electric provider, which sells the renewable energy to its
			 retail customers or members, or the renewable facility supplies or allocates
			 its energy under an executed wholesale purchase contract to the electric
			 provider, which sells the renewable energy to its retail customers or
			 members.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 118 - Renewable Resource Credit Tracking Program › Section PSC 118.04 - Creation and transfer of renewable energy certificates and renewable resource credits

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) A renewable energy certificate or an RRC
			 is used to meet an electric provider's minimum percentage requirement under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats., in the compliance period for
			 which the electric provider retires the renewable energy certificate or RRC,
			 regardless of the date on which the renewable energy certificate or RRC is
			 retired in the renewable energy tracking system.
EXAMPLE:
A RRC created for renewable energy
				generated in 2011 may be used to satisfy an electric provider's minimum
				percentage requirement under s.
				196.378(2)
				(a), Stats., in compliance years 2011 through
				2015. A RRC created in 2011 may be used for compliance year 2015 even if the
				RRC is not retired until 2016.
(1m) For purposes of determining how long a
			 renewable energy certificate or a RRC is eligible to be used to meet an
			 electric provider's minimum percentage requirement under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats.:
(a) A renewable energy certificate is created
			 when the renewable facility generates the renewable energy.
(b) A RRC for renewable energy is created
			 when the renewable facility generates the renewable energy.
(c) A RRC for displaced conventional
			 electricity is created in the year in which the use of the certified
			 displacement facility displaces conventional electricity.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 118 - Renewable Resource Credit Tracking Program › Section PSC 118.05 - Certification of renewable facilities

Current through June 24, 2024
(1)
(a) Except as provided in s.
			 PSC
			 118.055, an electric provider may only use the energy
			 of a certified renewable facility to meet a minimum percentage requirement
			 under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats., or for creation of a RRC. The
			 commission shall certify renewable facilities or delegate this responsibility
			 to the program administrator. Any electric provider or owner of a renewable
			 facility adversely affected by the decision to certify or not certify may file
			 a complaint with the commission. The complaint shall be in writing and filed
			 with the commission within 10 working days after service of the decision. The
			 division administrator may settle and resolve a complaint brought under this
			 paragraph. If the complaint cannot be resolved by mutual agreement, the
			 division administrator shall issue a written decision. Any person adversely
			 affected by the division administrator's written decision may, within 20
			 working days after its issuance, appeal the decision to the commission by
			 alleging facts that show a violation of a particular statute or provision of
			 this chapter.
(b) The program
			 administrator may not issue a renewable energy certificate or a RRC under s.
			 PSC
			 118.03(1) for generation occurring
			 before the date that a renewable facility is certified, except as specified
			 under par. (c) or (d).
(c) For a
			 renewable facility that receives certification from the commission, an electric
			 provider may meet a minimum percentage requirement under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats., or create a RRC with energy from
			 the renewable facility that was generated up to 60 days before the date the
			 electric provider delivered its request for certification of the renewable
			 facility, except as otherwise provided under par. (d).
(d) For energy generated by a renewable
			 resource specified in ss.
			 196.378(1) (h)
			 1 h. to j., Stats., the commission may permit
			 an electric provider to meet a minimum percentage requirement under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats., or create a RRC with energy that
			 was generated from a certified renewable facility on or after June 3, 2010 but
			 before the date the electric provider delivered its request for certification.
			 The commission may not permit creation of a RRC for energy that was generated
			 by a renewable resource specified in ss.
			 196.378(1) (h)
			 1 h. to j., Stats., before June 3,
			 2010.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 118 - Renewable Resource Credit Tracking Program › Section PSC 118.055 - Certification of displacement facilities

Current through June 24, 2024
(1)
(a) An electric provider or customer or
			 member of an electric provider may create a RRC under s.
			 PSC
			 118.03(2) based on the use of a
			 certified displacement facility by the electric provider, or by a customer or
			 member of the electric provider, to the extent that the use displaces
			 conventional electricity. The commission shall certify displacement facilities
			 or delegate this responsibility to the program administrator. Any electric
			 provider, customer or member of an electric provider, or owner of a
			 displacement facility adversely affected by the decision to certify or not
			 certify may file a complaint with the commission. The complaint shall be in
			 writing and filed with the commission within 10 working days after service of
			 the decision. The division administrator may settle and resolve a complaint
			 brought under this paragraph. If the complaint cannot be resolved by mutual
			 agreement, the division administrator shall issue a written decision. Any
			 person adversely affected by the division administrator's written decision may,
			 within 20 working days after its issuance, appeal the decision to the
			 commission by alleging facts that show a violation of a particular statute or
			 provision of this chapter.
(b) The
			 commission may permit an electric provider or customer or member of an electric
			 provider to create a RRC for conventional electricity displaced by use of a
			 displacement facility before the date the facility is certified, except that
			 the commission may not permit creation of a RRC for displacement that occurred
			 before June 3, 2010.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 118 - Renewable Resource Credit Tracking Program › Section PSC 118.06 - Renewable energy tracking system program administrator

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) The commission
			 shall do any of the following:
(a) Using a
			 competitive process, contract with a program administrator who shall operate
			 either a statewide or a regional renewable energy tracking system.
(b) Participate in a regional organization
			 that contracts with a program administrator who shall operate a statewide or
			 regional renewable energy tracking system.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 118 - Renewable Resource Credit Tracking Program › Section PSC 118.08 - Double-counting prohibited

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) An electric
			 provider that sells or conveys a MWh of renewable energy, a renewable energy
			 certificate or a RRC at wholesale may not use that MWh, renewable energy
			 certificate or RRC to meet its minimum percentage requirement under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats.
(2) If an electric provider sells or conveys
			 a MWh of renewable energy, a renewable energy certificate or a RRC at retail to
			 a customer or member that retains independent control over the disposition or
			 retirement of the renewable energy certificate, RRC or other renewable
			 attributes representing that MWh of renewable energy, the electric provider may
			 not use that MWh, renewable energy certificate, or RRC to meet its minimum
			 percentage requirements under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (a), Stats.
(3) An electric provider or customer or
			 member of an electric provider may not create RRCs for displaced conventional
			 electricity based on the use of a facility for which RRCs are created under s.
			 196.378(3)
			 (a) 1, Stats.
(4) An electric provider or customer or
			 member of an electric provider may not create RRCs for displaced conventional
			 electricity based on hydroelectric energy for which an electric provider is
			 permitted to use the average amount of hydroelectric power generated by the
			 facility under s.
			 196.378(2) (b)
			 1m a., Stats.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 118 - Renewable Resource Credit Tracking Program › Section PSC 118.09 - Calculation of displaced conventional electricity

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) For purposes of
			 this section:
(a) "Total statewide renewable
			 energy percentage" means the percentage that results from the equation of subd.
			 1. divided by subd. 2. as shown below:
1. The
			 actual renewable energy sold to Wisconsin retail customers within a given year
			 using information submitted to the commission by electric providers in their
			 most recent renewable portfolio standard compliance reports under s.
			 196.378(2)
			 (c), Stats., including actual renewable
			 energy used to serve all of the following programs:
a. Wisconsin electric provider renewable
			 portfolio standard programs.
b. Any
			 other federal or state renewable energy programs that apply to Wisconsin
			 electric providers.
c. Wisconsin
			 electric provider voluntary renewable energy programs.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 119 - Rules For Interconnecting Distributed Generation Facilities › Subchapter I - General › Section PSC 119.01 - Scope

Current through June 24, 2024
This chapter implements s.
				  196.496,
				  Stats. It applies to all DG facilities with a capacity of 15 MW or less that
				  are interconnected, or whose owner seeks to have interconnected, to an electric
				  public utility's distribution system. It also applies to all electric public
				  utilities to whose distribution systems a DG facility is interconnected, or to
				  which interconnection is sought. These rules establish uniform statewide
				  standards for the interconnection of DG facilities to an electric distribution
				  system.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 119 - Rules For Interconnecting Distributed Generation Facilities › Subchapter I - General › Section PSC 119.025 - Adoption of standards by reference

Current through June 24, 2024
(1)
				ADOPTION OF STANDARDS. The standards, IEEE Std 1547-2018: IEEE Standard for
				Interconnection and Interoperability of Distributed Energy Resources with
				Associated Electric Power Systems Interfaces, published April 6, 2018, and IEEE
				Std 1547.1-2020: IEEE Standard Conformance Test Procedures for Equipment
				Interconnecting Distributed Energy Resources with Electric Power Systems and
				Associated Interfaces, are hereby incorporated by reference into this
				chapter.
(2) CONSENT TO INCORPORATE
				BY REFERENCE. Pursuant to s. 227.21, Stats., the attorney general has consented
				to incorporate by references these standards contained in Std 1547-2018 and
				IEEE Std 1547.1-2020. Copies of IEEE Std 1547-2018 and IEEE Std 1547.1-2020 are
				on file in the offices of commission and the legislative reference
				bureau.
Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 119 - Rules For Interconnecting Distributed Generation Facilities › Subchapter II - General Requirements › Section PSC 119.03 - Designated point of contact

Current through June 24, 2024
Each public utility shall designate one point of contact for
				  all customer inquiries related to DG facilities and from which interested
				  parties can obtain installation guidelines and the appropriate standard
				  commission application and interconnection agreement forms. Each public utility
				  shall have current information concerning its DG point of contact on file with
				  the commission.