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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session |
House: NREW DPA 10-0-0-0 |
HB 2756: utilities; high load factor customers
Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 19
Caucus & COW
Overview
Requires certain public power entities and public service corporations to file quarterly reports with their respective governing entities regarding new extra high load factor customers. Outlines exemptions, rulemaking and additional reporting requirements.
History
A public power entity means any municipal corporation, city, town or other political subdivision that is organized under state law, that generates, transmits, distributes or otherwise provides electricity and that is not a public service corporation (A.R.S. § 30-801).
Public service corporation means any person or corporation that provides electric or communication service to the public by means of electric or communication facilities (A.R.S. § 40-341).
The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) is authorized to supervise and regulate every public service corporation in the state and do all things necessary and convenient in the exercise of that power and jurisdiction (A.R.S. § 40-202).
Provisions
Public Power Entities
1. Requires a public power entity, that meets certain criteria, to file with the governing body of the public power entity (Governing Body) quarterly reports regarding new extra high load factor customers that include the number of:
a. requests for interconnection; and
b. completed interconnections. (Sec. 1)
2. Allows the Governing Body to suspend the quarterly reporting requirements, two years after the effective date of this act and with a majority vote of the Governing Body, if there are two consecutive reports with no data. (Sec. 1)
3. Mandates a public power entity that conducts integrated system planning include extra high load factor customers in the entity's load growth projections for the integrated system plan. (Sec. 1)
Public Service Corporations
4. Requires an electric public service corporation file with the ACC quarterly reports regarding new extra high load factor customers that include the number of:
a. requests for interconnection; and
b. completed interconnections. (Sec. 2)
5. Allows the ACC to suspend the quarterly reporting requirements, two years after the effective date of this act and by a majority vote, if there are two consecutive reports with no data. (Sec. 2)
6. Mandates an electric public service corporation that conducts integrated resource planning include extra high load factor customers in the corporation's load growth projections for the integrated resource plan. (Sec. 2)
a. Allows the ACC to adopt rules that establish required characteristics that govern the terms for electric service to extra high load factor customers and outlines eligible requirements. (Sec. 2)
7. Clarifies that this section does not apply to member-owned electric cooperatives. (Sec. 2)
Cost of Service Study
8. Mandates certain public service corporations and public power entities to, within 180 days of the effective date of this act, file with their respective regulatory entities a cost-of-service study that shows the cost allocation of serving new extra high load factor customers. (Sec. 3)
9. Exempts member-owned electric cooperatives from this requirement. (Sec. 3)
Miscellaneous
10. Contains a legislative findings clause. (Sec. 4)
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