Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1) Electricity
Service Suppliers must submit an Informational Filing with the Commission every
other year.
(a) The Informational Filing may
be filed as a part of the Emissions Planning Report filing.
(b) The Informational Filing must contain a
discussion about how the overall resource strategy interacts with Resource
Adequacy concerns.
(2)
The Informational Filing for an Electricity Service Supplier must include:
(a) A monthly P50 Peak Load Forecast and
Effective Load Carrying Capability curve over a period of the greater of four
years or the longest available timeline from a Qualified Regional Program using
methods consistent with outputs of the Qualified Regional Program's Advisory
Forecast.
(b) A discussion covering
at least four years of the transmission rights necessary to serve P50 load, the
transmission rights currently owned or used, the steps that will be taken to
procure transmission rights to fill in any open position, and any expected
constraints or difficulties in filling any open positions.
(3) All publicly available outputs of a
Qualified Regional Program's most recent Advisory Forecast must be included
with the Informational Filing. These may be included as an appendix
chapter.
(4) Availability of
Information:
(a) A Regional Participant's most
recent Regional Forward Shwoing submission to its Qualified Regional Program
must be made available for review only to Qualified Parties and only upon
request pursuant to a Modified Protective Order.
(b) The following information shall be
available for review only by Non-market Participants that have executed a
Modified Protective Order:
(A) A discussion
about how the overall resource strategy interacts with Resource Adequacy
concerns, as requirebed by section (1)(b)of this rule;
(B) A monthly P50 Peak Load Forecast and
Effective Load Carrying Capability curve, as required by section (2)(a) of this
rule; and
(C) A discussion covering
at least four years of the transmission rights necessary to serve P50 load, the
transmission rights currently owned or used, the steps that will be taken to
procure transmission rights to fill in any open position, and any expected
constraints or difficulties in filling any open positions, as required by
section (2)(b) of this rule.
(c) For purposes of this rule, Non-market
Participants includes Commission Staff, the Oregon Citizens' Utility Board, and
nonprofit organizations engaged in environmental advocacy that do not otherwise
participate in electricity markets.
(5) As part of the forecast of monthly P50
Peak Load Forecast and monthly forecast of transmission requirements, an
Electricity Service Supplier must use current load levels or provide reasonable
substitutes of the load forecast. An Electricity Service Supplier is
responsible for demonstrating that the substitute load forecast is
reasonable.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 183 & ORS 756
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 756.040, ORS 757.649 &
ORS 757.659
