Ill. Admin. Code tit. 83, § 466.45 - Pre-Application Report
a) A potential applicant
may submit a formal written request form along with a non-refundable fee of $300 for
a pre-application report on a proposed project at a specific site. The EDC shall
provide the pre-application data described in Section
466.50(b)
to the potential applicant within 20 business days after receipt of the completed
pre-application report request form and payment of the $300 fee. The pre-application
report produced by the EDC is non-binding and does not confer any rights; the
potential applicant must file an application before it can interconnect with the
EDC's system. The written pre-application report request form shall include the
following information:
1) project contact
information, including name, address, phone number and email address;
2) project location (street address with nearby
cross streets, town, and GPS coordinates in decimal format);
3) meter number, pole number, EDC account number
or other equivalent information identifying proposed point of interconnection , if
available;
4) generator type (e.g.,
solar, wind, combined heat and power, energy storage or inverter system, or fuel
cells);
5) total generation capacity and
total storage capacity (alternating current kVA);
6) single or three-phase generator
configuration;
7) whether new electric
service is required for the site. Include the existing minimum and maximum on-site
electrical demand (in kVA) and describe any expected changes to the minimum or
maximum on-site electrical demand (in kVA), including the timing of those changes;
and
8) the number and capacity of each
generator unit to be interconnected at the site specified in the pre-application
report request.
b) Using the
information provided in the pre-application report request form described in
subsection (a), the EDC will identify the distribution facilities that are likely to
serve the proposed point of interconnection if the project is constructed,
including: substation/area bus, substation transformer or distribution circuit, as
applicable. This identification by the EDC does not guarantee, after application of
the relevant review process, that the EDC will use the distribution facilities
identified in the pre-application report to connect to the project. The potential
applicant must request additional pre-application reports if information about
multiple points of interconnection is requested. Subject to subsection (c), the
pre-application report shall include the following information:
1) Identification of up to two distribution
circuits within one quarter mile of the proposed point of interconnection , including
the following information:
A) Substation and
circuit identifying information;
B)
Feeder configuration (e.g., radial or network);
C) Number and size of phase conductors at the
point of interconnection ;
D) Distance to
three-phase (if applicable);
E) Primary
circuit voltage at the point of interconnection ;
F) Existing aggregate generation capacity
interconnected to the identified substations and circuits;
G) Aggregate generation capacity and non-binding
estimated costs associated with projects earlier in the queue and planned for the
identified substations and circuits;
H)
Capacity of the substation transformer, substation circuit equipment, and lowest
rated circuit equipment between the proposed point of interconnection and the
substation/area bus identified;
I)
Circuit peak and minimum load: estimated if actual is unavailable (i.e., minimum
load from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Central Prevailing Time for fixed panel photovoltaic
(PV) systems, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for PV systems using tracking systems, or
absolute minimum for non-PV and energy storage systems);
J) Approximate circuit distance between the
proposed point of interconnection and the identified substation or area
bus;
K) Size and type of relevant
protective devices between the proposed point of interconnection and the
substation/area bus identified, including:
i)
Lowest rated upstream recloser, where applicable; and
ii) Lowest rated upstream fuse, where
applicable;
L) Number of
regulating devices between the proposed point of interconnection and the
substation/area bus identified; and
M)
For the EDC's proposed point of interconnection , all existing or anticipated
constraints that might affect the interconnection.
2) Disclosure from the EDC as to whether the
aggregate contingent upgrades of the systems earlier in the queue are estimated to
exceed the following thresholds, if such estimates are available:
A) Distribution facility replacement/upgrades of
$50,000;
B) Substation transformer
replacement/upgrades of $100,000; or
C)
Transmission replacement/upgrades of $100,000.
c) The pre-application report need only include
existing data. A pre-application report request does not obligate the EDC to conduct
a study or other analysis of the proposed generator in the event that data is not
available. The information concerning "available capacity" provided within the
pre-application report represents the best information available to the EDC at the
time of reporting and does not imply that an interconnection up to this level may be
completed without impacts.
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