Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies
(a) On or before April first of each even numbered calendar year, each electric public service company shall file the following information with the Department:
(1) A report of the status of all previously approved power purchase agreements with private power producers, including the current status of projects under construction, identification of projects in service, payments made, or proposed to be made, in each remaining year of each contract;
(2) A forecast of loads and resources including but not limited to existing supply options, conservation, load and demand management measures, facility requirements, re-powering or life extension, and bulk power purchases. This information must be consistent with the ten or twenty-year report of Annual Forecasts of Loads and Resources filed with the Connecticut Siting Council pursuant to Section 16-50r of the General Statutes of Connecticut;
(3) The long-term forecasts of energy prices for oil, natural gas and coal used for utility planning purposes in developing the information required in Sections 16-243a-2 (a) (2) and 16-243a-2 (b) (2) of these regulations; and
(4) A report on the comprehensive conservation and load management programs of the company including:
(A) The status of all electricity conservation and load management programs to which the company has made commitment for capital investments within the next ten years from the date of the report, including all conservation and load management programs planned for development within the next ten years;
(B) The effect of all existing and planned conservation and load management programs on the load, demand and resource requirements of the company for the next ten years, including a description of the program's consistency with state energy policy;
(C) Documentation of the program elements, costs, implementation requirements, and fuel and energy savings objectives for each conservation and load management program filed pursuant to this section for the next ten years;
(D) Documentation of fuel and energy savings achieved to date for each program; and
(E) A report of the status of all agreements between the company and private power providers, including the current status of conservation and demand services under contract but not yet operational, identification of such services currently being furnished under contract, and payments made, or proposed to be made, in each remaining year of each agreement.
(5) If the comprehensive conservation and load management program contains multi-year conservation and load management programs, the electric public service company shall file the following additional information:
(A) The expected annual cost of operating the program, the capital requirements for investment for each year of the program, and the anticipated savings of capacity and energy for each year of the program;
(B) Documentation as to the use of cash or energy credits to customers as part of the program; and
(C) Testimony regarding the requested premium above the most recently authorized rate of return requested by the electric public service company for each multi-year program requiring capital investment, the requested period of amortization, and the annual and cumulative amount requested to be recovered in rate base. Such information shall address each individual multi-year investment program as well as the cumulative effect of such programs.
(b) If the forecast filed pursuant to Section 16-243a-2 (a) (2) of these regulations, adjusted to reflect the load effects of all conservation and load management programs meeting the requirements as identified in Section 16-243a-3 (d) of these regulations, identifies the need for additional capacity resources to meet electric load requirements during the first ten years of the forecast period, or if the electric public service company, within the next two years from the date of the forecast filing, plans on committing to add additional resources which could be avoided by the purchase either of power from a private power producer or of electricity conservation and demand management measures from a private power provider, or both, the electric public service company shall file the following information:
(1) Testimony regarding the amount, type, characteristics and justification for additional resources needed to meet its electric load requirements expected to be requested from private power producers and the amount, type, characteristics and justification for conservation and demand management measures to be purchased from private power providers;
(2) Testimony documenting the anticipated avoided costs of energy and capacity during the forecast period based on the proxy resource, assuming that the resource used as a proxy for avoided cost determination would have been implemented by the electric public service company but for the purchase of capacity or energy or both from private power producers and or private power providers;
(3) A map indicating load center concentrations, transmission limitations, and planned and proposed changes to the transmission system within the franchise area during the forecast period; and
(4) The company's proposed requests for proposals for the supply of additional capacity resources from private power producers and or for the supply of conservation and demand management measures from private power providers and the proposed manner of selection and criteria for weighting of factors to be used in evaluating proposals from private power producers and or private power providers. In addressing the weighting of factors, the company shall take into account the following criteria: price, including ratepayer impact; timing; quality of output; likelihood of project success; impact on utility system, including reliability, safety and fuel use; likely environmental impact and any other factors deemed appropriate by the department.
(c) If the electric public service company does not anticipate the need for additional capacity resources during the first ten years of the forecast period, it shall file supporting testimony to demonstrate such finding, in addition to testimony as required by Sections 16-243a-2 (b) (2), 16-243a-2 (b) (3) and 16-243a-2 (d) of these regulations.
(d) Whether or not each electric public service company identifies a need for or commitment to obtain additional capacity resources within the time period as stated in Section 16-243a-2 (b) of these regulations, each electric public service company shall file the following information:
(1) A report of the status of all agreements between the electric public service company and private power providers, including the current status of conservation and demand management services under contract but not yet operational, identification of such services currently under contract, payments made, and payments proposed to be made in each remaining year of each agreement;
(2) Testimony regarding the amount, type and characteristics of conservation and demand management measures which the electric public service company plans to commit to in accordance with the company's electricity conservation and load management plan, and the anticipated impact on the company's demand and energy requirements, including peaks;
(3) Testimony regarding the amount, type and characteristics of conservation and demand management measures, apart from the company's own conservation and load management measures, which the company seeks to obtain from private power providers within two years of the date of the filing in order to meet the company's energy or capacity needs; and
(4) The proposed method for obtaining from private power providers the conservation or demand management measures identified in Section 16-243a-2 (d) (2) and Section 16-243a-2 (d) (3) of these regulations.
(e) On or before April first of each odd numbered calendar year, each electric public service company shall file the following information with the Department:
(1) A report of the status of all previously approved power purchase agreements with private power producers, including the current status of projects under construction, identification of projects in service, payments made, or proposed to be made, in each remaining year of each contract;
(2) A report of the status of all conservation and load management programs of the electric public service company and the status of all previously approved agreements for electricity conservation or demand management measures with private power providers, including the current status of program implementation and payments made or proposed to be made during each year of each agreement; and
(3) An update of the avoided energy cost based on the most recently authorized fossil fuel prices.
(Effective October 26, 1989)