Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1.
Time limits.
No later than July 1 of each even-numbered year beginning in
1998, a public natural gas utility required by Minnesota Statutes, section
216B.241,
to invest in a conservation improvement program shall file with the department
a biennial conservation improvement program. No later than August 1, 1997, and
every odd-numbered year afterward, a public electric utility required by
Minnesota Statutes, section
216B.241,
to invest in a conservation improvement program shall file with the department
a conservation improvement program.
Subp. 2.
Contents.
The biennial conservation improvement program filing must
include:
A. a comprehensive
description of the proposed program, including a description of each project
making up the program;
B. for each
individual project, a completed project information sheet that will be provided
by the department. The project information sheet can be used to provide the
information required in items E and F;
C. for each project making up the program, a
description of the expected effect of each project on peak demand and energy
consumption with supporting assumptions, including a list of each conservation
technology or process to be promoted and the energy- and demand-savings
assumptions associated with each identified technology;
D. for each electric utility that must submit
an integrated resource plan to the Public Utilities Commission, an explanation
of how its overall conservation improvement program enables the utility to meet
the long-term demand-side management goals established in its most recent
integrated resource plan;
E. an
estimate of the expected cost-effectiveness of each project to the utility, to
the project's participants, to the utility's ratepayers, and to
society;
F. for each project
targeted at residential consumers, an estimate of the anticipated percentage of
use of each project among:
(1) low-income
participants; and
(2)
renters;
G. a detailed
budget for each project for the next two years;
H. a description of the utility's ratemaking
treatment and cost-recovery method;
I. an estimate of participation in each
project;
J. an explanation of how
the proposed projects provide for the involvement of community energy
organizations when appropriate;
K.
an outline of the proposed plan for evaluating the effectiveness of each
proposed project;
L. for each
renewable energy project, an estimate of the net energy and capacity to be
produced by each project and the projected reliability of the technology that
would be used; and
M. additional
information that the department determines is necessary as a result of its
review or evaluation of previous projects of the particular utility.
Subp. 3.
Completeness
review.
Upon receipt of a utility's plan, the department shall conduct
a completeness review based on the filing requirements listed in subpart
2. The department's findings
after this review must set forth the information necessary to make the plan
complete and the date by which the information must be filed. The department
staff's findings must be issued no later than ten days after the plan is filed
with the department. When the department determines that the necessary
information has been filed to make the plan complete, it shall serve a written
notice of completion on the utility and persons on the utility's service list
established under part
7690.0800, subpart
1.
