Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
Public Service Commission
Interconnection and Distributed Generation Standards
Part 2 - INTERCONNECTION STANDARDS
Section R. 460.954 - Individual study

(1) An electric utility that is evaluating DERs in the study track individually shall process the interconnection applications in the order in which the applications were placed into the study track, taking into account withdrawn interconnection applications and electrically remote DERs. An electrically remote DER in an individual study may be studied on an expedited schedule relative to electrically coincident DERs. Electrically remote DERs must be studied in the order the interconnection applications were considered complete.

(2) When an interconnection application is delayed due to an affected system issue, informal mediation pursuant to R 460.904, formal mediation pursuant to R 460.906, or a complaint pursuant to R 792.10439 to R 792.10446, other interconnection applications that were placed into the study track on a later date may progress in the order in which the interconnection applications were placed into the study track.

(3) An individual study process must consist of a system impact study pursuant to R 460.960 and a facilities study pursuant to R 460.962. An electric utility may waive 1 or both studies for a particular interconnection application. An electric utility may specify additional studies it may perform on an interconnection application in its interconnection procedures, provided the electric utility is able to meet all applicable timelines associated with an individual study process.

(4) Interconnection applications that meet all of the following requirements must be admitted into an individual study: