Section 6-74-23 - Factors affecting rates for purchaseIn determining avoided costs for a specific proposal from a qualifying facility, with or without a legally enforceable obligation, the following factors, to the extent practicable, shall be taken into account:
(1) The data provided pursuant to §§ 6-74-17 to 6-74-19, including the commission review of any such data;(2) The availability of capacity or energy from a qualifying facility during the system daily and seasonal peak periods, including: (A) The ability of the utility to dispatch the qualifying facility;(B) The expected or demonstrated reliability of the qualifying facility;(C) The terms and any contract or other legally enforceable obligation, including the duration of the obligation, termination notice requirement and sanctions for non compliance;(D) The extent to which scheduled outages of the qualifying facility can be usefully coordinated with scheduled outages of the utility's facilities;(E) The usefulness of energy and capacity supplied from a qualifying facility during system emergencies, including its ability to separate its load from its generation;(F) The individual and aggregate value of energy and capacity from qualifying facilities on the electric utility's system; and(G) The extent to which the capacity or energy will be available.(3) The relationship of the availability of energy or capacity from the qualifying facility as derived in paragraph (2), to the ability of the electric utility to avoid costs, including the deferral of capacity additions and the reduction of fossil fuel use; and(4) The costs or savings resulting from variations in line losses from those that would have existed in the absence of purchases from a qualifying facility, if the purchasing electric utility generated an equivalent amount of energy itself or purchased an equivalent amount of electric energy or capacity.[Eff 2/18/82; am and comp 5/2/85; am and comp] (Auth: HRS § 269-6) (Imp: HRS § 269-27.2)