Or. Admin. Code § 860-095-0020

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 12, December 1, 2024

Section 860-095-0020 - Electric Company Resource Adequacy Informational Filing Requirements

(1) Electric Companies must provide an Informational Filing to the Commission as a part of their Integrated Resource Plan. The Electric Company's Informational Filing must be included as a chapter to the Integrated Resource Plan that incorporates the Advisory Forecast from a Qualified Regional Program and contains a discussion about how the overall resource strategy interacts with Resource Adequacy concerns.

(2) The Informational Filing for an Electric Company must include:

(a) Qualified Regional Program data as provided by the Regional Participant that was developed for utilization in the Qualified Regional Program's Advisory Forecastt and mirrors the number of years of information provided in the Advisory Forecast.

(b) A high-level discussion, not to include confidential information, of the transmission rights necessary to serve P50 load, the transmission rights currently owned or used, the steps that will be taken to procure transmission rights to fill in any open position, and any expected constraints or difficulties in filling any open positions. The information supplied should cover the time period of the two forthcoming Qualified Regional Program operating seasons.

(c) A description of information supplied to produce the Advisory Forecast and explanation of any differences between that information and comparable inputs to the Electric Company's Integrated Resource Plan analysis and associated action plan.

(d) Commercially and Competively-sensitive information and data provided in the Informational Filing may be redacted or provided only to Qualified Parties.

(3) All outputs of a Qualified Regional Program's most recent Advisory Forecast must be included with the Informational Filing. These may be included in the Informational Filing or as an Appendix chapter to the Integrated Resource Plan.

(4) A Regional Participant's most recent Regional Forward Showing submission to its Qualified Regional Program must be made available to Qualified Parties upon request pursuant to a Modified Protected Order.

Or. Admin. Code § 860-095-0020

PUC 5-2024, adopt filed 05/10/2024, effective 5/13/2024

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 183 & ORS 756

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 756.040, ORS 756.700, ORS 756.105 & ORS 757.659