Haw. Code R. § 6-74-17 - Availability of electric utility system cost data; general rule

(a) To make available data from which avoided costs may be derived, not later than June 30, 1982, and not less often than every two years thereafter, each regulated electric utility described in § 6-74-16 shall provide to the commission, and shall maintain for public inspection at its administrative office the following data:

(1) The estimated avoided cost of the electric utility's system, solely with respect to the energy component, for various levels of purchases from qualifying facilities. Such levels of purchases shall be stated in blocks of not more than one hundred megawatts, for systems with peak demand of one thousand megawatts or more, and in blocks, equivalent to not more than ten per cent of the system peak demand, for systems with peak demand of less than one thousand megawatts. The avoided costs shall be stated on a cents per kilowatt-hour basis, during daily peak and off-peak periods, by year, for the current calendar year and each of the next five years. The utility shall specify whether the costs are current costs or projected costs;

(2) The electric utility's plan for the addition of capacity or load management facilities, or both by amount and type, for purchases of firm, and for capacity retirements for each year during the succeeding ten years; and

(3) The estimated capacity or load management facilities or both costs at completion of the planned capacity additions and planned capacity firm purchases, on the basis of dollars per kilowatt, and the associated energy costs of each unit operating at its most efficient point, expressed in cents per kilowatt hour. These costs shall be expressed in terms of individual generating units and of individual planned firm purchases. The utility shall specify whether costs are current costs or projected costs.

(b) Each electric utility shall submit avoided energy costs consisting of cost of fuel, which shall be computed based on the latest composite fuel price stated in cents per million BTU multiplied by the heat rate per million BTU per net kilowatt hour. The subtotal is then adjusted for the power factor adjustment in cents per net kilowatt hours plus the generation operating and maintenance costs in cents per net kilowatt hour multiplied by the hour-weighting factor for on-peak and off-peak periods. The heat rate, power factor adjustment and generation operating and maintenance costs shall be derived from the electric utility's last rate increase approval by the commission.

(c) The data required to be provided by this section shall not, in itself, determine any rate for purchase under § 6-74-22, except for the purpose of establishing the minimum purchase rate. All of the factors set forth in § 6-74-23 shall be considered in determining any rate for purchase.

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Haw. Code R. § 6-74-17

[Eff 2/18/82; am and comp 5/2/85; am and comp] (Auth: HRS § 269-6) (Imp: HRS § 269-27.2)