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DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PLANNING
Section 4 CCR 723-3-3529 - Contents of the Distribution System Plan

4 Colo. Code Regs. § 723-3-3529

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Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 11, June 10, 2024
Section 4 CCR 723-3-3529 - Contents of the Distribution System Plan
(a) The utility shall file a Phase I DSP with the Commission that contains the information specified below. When required by the Commission, the utility shall provide any relevant studies, additional data, and work-papers to support the information contained in the plan. The DSP shall include the following:
(I) a description of the objectives of the DSP, including the utility's ten-year vision for distribution grid capabilities and services that meet customer needs and state policy goals;
(II) a description of how the distribution grid may evolve over the next five and ten years due to various factors, such as increasing DER penetration, the expansion of beneficial electrification programs and other electrification, advanced metering infrastructure, increasing demand flexibility, energy efficiency and other emerging technologies. The utility should discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by the emergence of new technology as well as plans they have to adapt to or utilize these changes to the grid;
(III) a description of the utility's vision of how existing utility demand-side management measures and programs, as well as other existing distributed energy resource offerings, shall or could be utilized or modified to meet distribution system planning needs;
(IV) distribution system forecasts, as described in rule 3530;
(V) an assessment of the existing distribution system, as described in rule 3531;
(VI) an assessment of grid needs, as described in rule 3532;
(VII) a description of grid innovations and any proposed pilots and programs, as described in rule 3533;
(VIII) NWA suitability screening results, as described in rule 3534;
(IX) a proposed NWA cost benefit analysis methodology, as described in rule 3535;
(X) any proposed documents and model contracts that the utility intends to use for NWA solicitation or procurement;
(XI) a Phase I action plan, as described in rule 3536;
(XII) a proposal for cost recovery, which may include an incentive, as described in rule 3538;
(XIII) a security assessment, as described in rule 3539.
(XIV) a proposal for implementation of a web portal as described in paragraph 3541(d);
(XV) a description of the stakeholder engagement process, as described in paragraph 3528(g); and
(XVI) a description of how the utility has engaged, and plans to engage, on DSP with communities, particularly disproportionately impacted communities, and how the utility has incorporated community climate, equity and resilience goals and priorities into the DSP and action plan.

4 CCR 723-3-3529

38 CR 17, September 10, 2015, effective 9/30/2015
39 CR 06, March 25, 2016, effective 4/14/2016
39 CR 08, April 25, 2016, effective 5/15/2016
40 CR 22, November 25, 2017, effective 12/15/2017
42 CR 03, February 10, 2019, effective 3/2/2019
42 CR 07, April 10, 2019, effective 4/30/2019
42 CR 09, May 10, 2019, effective 5/30/2019
43 CR 08, April 25, 2020, effective 5/15/2020
43 CR 12, June 25, 2020, effective 7/15/2020
43 CR 20, October 25, 2020, effective 11/14/2020
44 CR 13, July 10, 2021, effective 7/30/2021
44 CR 24, December 25, 2021, effective 1/14/2022
45 CR 18, September 25, 2022, effective 10/15/2022
46 CR 02, January 25, 2023, effective 2/14/2023