Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning
Article 2 - Integrated Resource Plans and Large Project Preapproval
3 AAC 46.270 - Large project preapproval

(a) Upon certification of an electric reliability organization, any large energy facility that has not yet completed construction is subject to the requirements of AS 42.05.785.

(b) A utility that has undertaken but not completed a large energy facility before commission approval of the first integrated resource plan satisfies the requirements of AS 42.05.785(a) if the utility undertaking the large energy facility attests that it undertook its project before

(c) If a large energy facility, undertaken but not completed before commission approval of the first integrated resource plan, is not operationally integrated into the interconnected bulkelectric system, the utility must provide evidence and make an affirmative showing that the large energy facility satisfies the requirements of AS 42.05.785(a) not later than 24 months after the date that a certificate is issued to the electric reliability organization.

(d) A utility making an attestation under (b) of this section must do so not later than 30 days after an electric reliability organization's first filed reliability standards or the certification of an electric reliability organization.

(e) For purposes of AS 42.05.785(b), a large energy facility is included in an integrated resource plan's preferred resource portfolio if the portfolio specifically delineates the large energy facility, or if the large energy facility has been selected under the processes described in the commission-approved action plan.

(f) For a large energy facility that is not subject to (b) of this section and is not included in an integrated resource plan's preferred resource portfolio, the commission will find that the facility satisfies the requirements of AS 42.05.785(a)(3) only if it determines that

(g) A load-serving entity seeking approval for a large energy facility under AS 42.05.785(a) shall provide the commission with sufficient evidence to enable the commission to reasonably determine that construction of the proposed large energy facility will provide the greatest value at lowest reasonable cost, after taking into account a range of alternatives, including demand-side management and efficiency strategies, energy conservation, and refurbishment of existing plant.

(h) After commission approval of an integrated resource plan, a large energy facility included in that integrated resource plan's preferred resource portfolio as a defined facility, or a large energy facility selected under the process set out in the most current action plan, satisfies the requirements of AS 42.05.785(b).

(i) A public utility shall notify the commission of refurbishment or capitalized maintenance of a large energy facility. The commission may require the public utility to provide documentation to show previous operating condition before refurbishments.

(j) Nothing in this chapter

(k) For purposes of this section, a large energy facility is undertaken upon the beginning of one or more of the following activities as part of a continuous on-site construction program:

(l) The commission may waive or modify by order the requirements of this section, in whole or in part, upon application and a showing of good cause or on the commission's own motion, if the waiver does not also require a waiver of the requirements set out in AS 42.05.785.