Okla. Admin. Code § 165:40-5-32

Current through Vol. 42, No. 4, November 1, 2024

Section 165:40-5-32 - Equipment which adversely affects electric service

(a) Many types of electric equipment can adversely affect the quality of electric service. This is true of all generating equipment. Close consultation between the producer and the cooperative/utility will be required before such equipment is interconnected and to remedy unsatisfactory operating conditions.

(b) Producers whose use of or production of electricity is intermittent and subject to violent fluctuations may be served with other electrical loads or by a transformer dedicated solely to that equipment and served as a separate account. Producers contemplating the installation of such equipment must make specific prior arrangements with the cooperative/utility.

(c) Producers contemplating the installation of electric equipment, whose performances may be adversely affected by voltage fluctuations and distorted 60 Hz. wave forms, must make specific prior arrangements with the cooperative/utility.

(d) Producers found to be operating electric equipment which produces frequencies that result in interference or generate distorted wave forms into the 60 Hz. electric supply system, which adversely affects the operation of equipment owned by producer or by other consumers of the cooperative/utility or the cooperative/utility's system, shall be required to consult with the cooperative/utility and to eliminate the cause of the interference.

(e) If it is determined by the cooperative/utility that remedial action is required to correct an adverse effect produced by the producer through use of any equipment causing such adverse effect, the cooperative/utility reserves the right to have the producer install, at the producer's expense, any system protection facilities necessary to reasonably limit such adverse effect.

(f) In lieu of requesting the producer to install such system protection facilities, the cooperative/utility may, at its option, install additional facilities (which may or may not be dedicated solely to such producer) or other equipment specially designed to reasonably limit such adverse effect. The cost of these facilities will be paid for by the producer.

Okla. Admin. Code § 165:40-5-32