AF18 SECTION AVAILABILITY This schedule supersedes the AF-1 rate schedule and is available to customers that execute an agreement that provides for BPA to collect capital and related costs through advance funding or other financial arrangement for specified -owned Federal Columbia River Transmission System (FCRTS) facilities used for: A. Interconnection or integration of resources and loads to the FCRTS; B. Upgrades, replacements, or reinforcements of the FCRTS for transmission service; or C. Other transmission service arrangements, as determined by BPA. Service under this schedule is subject to the General Rate Schedule Provisions (GRSPs), which follow the rate schedules in this document. SECTION II. CHARGE The charge is: A. The sum of the actual capital and related costs for specified FCRTS facilities, as provided in the agreement. Such actual capital and related costs include, but are not limited to, costs of design, materials, construction, overhead, spare parts, and all incidental costs necessary to provide service as identified in the agreement; or B. An advance payment to the sum of the capital and related costs for specified FCRTS facilities, as provided in the agreement. A credit for some or all of the amount advanced will be applied against charges for transmission service, as provided in the agreement. The charges for transmission service shall be at the rate for the applicable transmission service. SECTION III. PAYMENT A. ADVANCE PAYMENT Payment to BPA shall be specified in the agreement as one of the following options: 1. A lump sum advance payment; 2. Advance payments pursuant to a schedule of progress payments; or
E. VARIABLE ENERGY RESOURCE BALANCING SERVICE 1. APPLICABILITY The rates contained in this rate schedule apply to all wind and solar generating facilities of 200 kW nameplate rated capacity or greater in the BPA Control Area except as provided in section 2.c. of this rate schedule. Variable Energy Resource Balancing Service (“VERBS” or “Balancing Service”) is comprised of three components: regulating reserves (which compensate for moment-to-moment differences between generation and load), following reserves (which compensate for larger differences occurring over longer periods of time during the hour), and imbalance reserves (which compensate for differences between the generator’s schedule and the actual generation during an hour). Variable Energy Resource Balancing Service is required to help maintain the power system frequency at 60 Hz and to conform to NERC and WECC reliability standards. 2. 4 5. a. BALANCING SERVICE RATES (1) Rate for 30/60 Committed Scheduling This rate is applicable to customers taking Balancing Service that commit to receive BPA’s 30-minute signal for each 60-minute schedule period (30/60 committed scheduling) and submit schedules that are consistent with the signal or that result in less imbalance for the scheduling period. (a) Regulating Reserves $0.08 per kilowatt per month (b) Following Reserves $0.32 per kilowatt per month (c) Imbalance Reserves $0.80 per kilowatt per month (2) Rate for 40/15 Committed Scheduling This rate is applicable to customers taking Balancing Service that commit to receive BPA’s 40-minute signal for each 15-minute schedule period (40/15 committed scheduling) and submit BALANCING ASSIGNMENT
E. Transmission and Ancillary Services Rate Discounts BPA may offer discounted rates for transmission and ancillary services available under the Open Access Transmission Tariff and to the extent provided for in the PTP, IS, IM, and ACS rate schedules. principal requirements apply to discounts for transmission service and Ancillary Services provided by BPA in conjunction with its provision of transmission service, as follows: any offer of a discount made by BPA must be announced to all Eligible Customers solely by posting on the OASIS; any customer-initiated requests for discounts (including requests for use by one’s wholesale merchant or an affiliate’s use) must occur solely by posting on the OASIS; and once a discount is negotiated, details must be immediately posted on the OASIS. For any discount agreed upon for transmission service on a path, from of receipt to point(s) of delivery, BPA must offer the same discounted transmission service rate for the same time period to all Eligible Customers on all unconstrained transmission paths that connect to the same point(s) of delivery on the transmission system. A discount agreed upon for an Ancillary Service must be offered for the same period to all Eligible Customers on BPA’s transmission system.
50. Regulation and Frequency Response Service Regulation and Frequency Response Service is necessary to provide for the continuous balancing of resources (generation and interchange) with load and for maintaining scheduled Interconnection frequency at cycles per second (60 Hz). Regulation and Frequency Response Service is accomplished by committing on-line generation whose output is raised or lowered (predominantly through the use of automatic generation control equipment) as necessary to follow the moment-by-moment changes in load. The obligation to maintain this balance between resources and load lies with BPA. BPA must offer this service when the transmission service is used to serve load within its Control Area. The Transmission Customer must either purchase this service from BPA or make alternative comparable arrangements to satisfy its Regulation and Frequency Response Service obligation. 51. Reliability Obligations Reliability Obligations are the obligations that a party with resources or loads in the BPA Control Area must provide in order to meet minimum reliability standards. Reliability Obligations shall be determined consistent with applicable NERC, WECC, and NWPP standards. BPA offers Ancillary Services and Control Area Services to allow resources or loads to meet their Reliability Obligations. 52. Reserved Capacity Reserved Capacity is the maximum amount of capacity and energy that BPA agrees to transmit for the Transmission Customer over the Transmission System between the Point(s) of Receipt and the Point(s) of Delivery under Part II of the Open Access Transmission Tariff. Reserved Capacity shall be expressed in terms of whole megawatts on a sixty (60)-minute interval (commencing on the clock hour) basis. In cases where Dynamic Schedules are involved, the Reserved Capacity must be set at a level to accommodate (i) a demand equal to the largest ten-minute moving average of the load or generation expected to occur during the contract period for one-way Dynamic Schedules used to transfer generation or load from one Control Area to another Control Area; or (ii) a demand equal to the instantaneous peak demand, for each direction, of the supplemental Control Area service request expected to occur during the contract period for two-way Dynamic Transfers used to provide supplemental Control Area services. The supplemental Control Area service response shall always be the lesser of the Control Area service request or the Reserved Capacity associated with the supplemental Control Area service. 53. Scheduled Demand Scheduled Demand is the hourly demand at which electric energy is scheduled for transmission on the FCRTS.