Illinois Administrative Code
Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
Part 285 - STANDARD INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS IN FILING FOR AN INCREASE IN RATES
Subpart H - RATE AND TARIFF SCHEDULES
Section 285.5120 - Schedule E-7: Load Research - Electric Utilities
Universal Citation: 83 IL Admin Code ยง 285.5120
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
Each electric utility with more than $50 million in total jurisdictional annual revenue shall provide a set of load research results that were developed no more than four years before the filing date. This submission shall consist of two parts:
a) Schedule E-7: a full set of load research results based on statistical samples of the utility's rate classes. This shall include the following information:
1) Monthly class and Illinois jurisdictional loads
at the time of the system coincident peaks, along with the date and time of this
peak;
2) The monthly maximum
non-coincident peak demands for each customer class, along with the date and time of
each peak for each customer class;
3)
Class and jurisdictional load factors; and
4) The statistical confidence level achieved for
each set of load data developed.
b) Schedule E-7 work papers. The utility shall provide the following materials in support of its load research results:
1) The time period over which the data was
collected;
2) A full description of the
statistical methods used by the utility to derive load research results, including
accuracies and confidence levels its load research samples were designed to achieve;
and
3) A full explanation of the usage
strata into which customers in the utility's load research sample are distributed.
For each usage stratum, the utility must provide the following:
A) Identify the number of customers and the
customer types (by class) in that particular usage stratum;
B) Average monthly usage;
C) Average demand in kW at the time of the system
peak; and
D) Average non-coincident peak
demand.
4) An explanation of
how the load research sample was derived and justification for the appropriateness
of the sample used.
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