Sec. 2.6.
(a) The
following utilities are exempt from this section:
(1) Indiana Municipal Power Agency.
(2) Hoosier Energy Rural Electric
Cooperative.
(3) Wabash Valley
Power Association.
(b)
The utility shall provide information requested by an interested party relating
to the development of the utility's IRP within fifteen (15) business days of a
written request or as otherwise agreed to by the utility and the interested
party. If a utility is unable to provide the requested information within
fifteen (15) business days or the agreed time frame, it shall provide a
statement to the director and the requestor as to the reason it is unable to
provide the requested information.
(c) The utility shall solicit, consider, and
timely respond to relevant input relating to the development of the utility's
IRP provided by:
(1) interested
parties;
(2) the OUCC;
and
(3) commission staff.
(d) The utility retains full
responsibility for the content of its IRP.
(e) The utility shall conduct a public
advisory process as follows:
(1) Prior to
submitting its IRP to the commission, the utility shall hold at least three (3)
meetings, a majority of which shall be held in the utility's service territory.
The topics discussed in the meetings shall include, but not be limited to, the
following:
(A) An introduction to the IRP and
public advisory process.
(B) The
utility's load forecast.
(C)
Evaluation of existing resources.
(D) Evaluation of supply-side and demand-side
resource alternatives, including:
(i)
associated costs;
(ii) quantifiable
benefits; and
(iii) performance
attributes.
(E) Modeling
methods.
(F) Modeling
inputs.
(G) Treatment of risk and
uncertainty.
(H) Discussion seeking
input on its candidate resource portfolios.
(I) The utility's scenarios and
sensitivities.
(J) Discussion of
the utility's preferred resource portfolio and the utility's rationale for its
selection.
(2) The
utility may hold additional meetings.
(3) The schedule for meetings shall:
(A) be determined by the utility;
(B) be consistent with its internal IRP
development schedule; and
(C)
provide an opportunity for public participation in a timely manner so that it
may affect the outcome of the IRP.
(4) The utility or its designee shall:
(A) chair the participation
process;
(B) schedule
meetings;
(C) develop and publish
to its website agendas and relevant material for those meetings at least seven
(7) calendar days prior to the meeting; and
(D) develop and publish to its website
meeting minutes within fifteen (15) calendar days following the
meeting.
(5) Interested
parties may request that relevant items be placed on the agenda of the meetings
if they provide adequate notice to the utility.
(6) The utility shall take reasonable steps
to notify:
(A) its customers;
(B) the commission;
(C) interested parties; and
(D) the OUCC; of its public advisory
process.
