Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
(a) On or before
the 15th day of each month, each electric public utility which uses fossil
and/or nuclear fuel in the generation of electric power for providing North
Carolina retail electric service shall file a Fuel Report for the second
preceding month (i.e., up to 45 days after the end of the month being reported)
for review by the Commission, the Public Staff, and any other interested party.
The Monthly Fuel Report shall be filed in such formats as shall from time to
time be approved by the Commission, and shall include the following
information:
(1) Details of power plant
performance and generation;
(2)
Details of cost of fuel burned;
(3)
Details of cost of fuel transportation;
(4) Details of fuel consumption and
inventories;
(5) Analysis of fossil
fuel purchases;
(6) Details of cost
and inventories of ammonia, limestone, urea, dibasic acid, sorbents, and
catalysts consumed in reducing or treating emissions;
(7) Details of transactions for purchases,
sales, and interchanges of power, including (i) total delivered noncapacity
related costs of purchases that are subject to economic dispatch or economic
curtailment and (ii) capacity costs associated with purchases from qualifying
cogeneration facilities and qualifying small power production facilities, as
defined in 16 U.S.C.
796, that are subject to economic
dispatch;
(8) Details of the total
delivered costs of purchases of power from renewable energy facilities and new
renewable energy facilities pursuant to
G.S.
62-133.8 and costs incurred to comply with
any federal mandate that is similar to subsections (b), (d), (e), and (f) of
G.S.
62-133.8;
(9) Details of the fuel cost component of
other purchased power;
(10) Details
of net gains or losses resulting from sales of fuel or other fuel-related costs
components as defined in
G.S.
62-133.2(a1);
(11) Details of net gains or losses resulting
from sales of by-products produced in the generation process to the extent the
costs of the inputs leading to that by-product are costs of fuel or
fuel-related costs as defined in
G.S.
62-133.2(a1); and
(12) Details of costs incurred to comply with
the Swine Farm Methane Capture Pilot Program established in Section 4 of S.L.
2007-523.
Subdivisions (6) and (7)(ii) of this subsection do not
apply to the Monthly Fuel Report of an electric public utility that is subject
to G.S.
62-133.2(a3).
(b) Each electric
public utility which uses fossil and/or nuclear fuel in the generation of
electric power shall file a Fuel Procurement Practices Report for review by the
Commission at least once every ten (10) years, plus each time the utility's
fuel procurement practices change. The Fuel Procurement Practices Report shall
detail:
(1) The process and/or methodology
the utility uses to determine its fuel and fuel-related needs;
(2) The process the utility uses to determine
from which vendor it shall buy fuel and fuel-related inventories; and
(3) The inventory management practices the
utility follows to maintain its fuel and fuel-related inventories.
NCUC Docket No. E-100,
Sub 47, 5/1/84; NCUC Docket No. E-100, Sub 113, 2/29/08, NCUC Docket No. E-100,
Sub 113, 3/13/08.
