3 AAC 50.780 - Sales
(a) An electric utility shall provide service
to a qualifying facility including, but not limited to, supplementary power,
back-up power, maintenance power, and interruptible power.
(b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, an
electric utility is not obligated to provide supplementary power, back-up
power, maintenance power, and interruptible power to a qualifying facility upon
a showing to and determination by the commission, after reasonable notice and
an opportunity for public comment, that compliance with that requirement will
either impair the electric utility's ability to give adequate service to its
customers or impose an undue burden on the electric utility.
(c) Rates for sales must be just and
reasonable and in the public interest and must not discriminate against the
other consumers of the utility or against a qualifying facility in comparison
to rates for sales to other customers of the electric utility with similar load
or other cost-related characteristics.
(d) An electric utility shall submit to the
commission the information necessary to support the methodology and
calculations used in developing rates for sales of electric power to a
qualifying facility in conformance with applicable commission
regulations.
(e) Rates for sales of
back-up power and maintenance power
(1) must
not be based upon an assumption that forced outages or other reductions in
electric output by all qualifying facilities on an electric utility's system
will occur simultaneously, or during the system peak, or both, unless the
assumption is supported by factual data; and
(2) must take into account the extent to
which scheduled outages of the qualifying facilities can be usefully
coordinated with the scheduled outages of the electric utility's
facilities.
(f) During
any system emergency, an electric utility may discontinue sales to a qualifying
facility, provided that the discontinuance is on a nondiscriminatory
basis.
Notes
Authority:AS 42.05.141(a)
AS 42.05.151(a)
AS 42.05.291(c)
AS 42.05.301
AS 42.05.361(a)
AS 42.05.381(a)
AS 42.05.391(a)
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