65- 407 C.M.R. ch. 321, § 2

Current through 2024-25, June 19, 2024

Section 407-321-2 - TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION UTILITY OBLIGATION

A. Obligation for Compliance. Each transmission and distribution utility shall ensure that the provisions of this Chapter are carried out in its service territory.

B. Aggregators and Brokers. The provisions of this Chapter that refer to competitive electricity providers do not apply to aggregators and brokers.

C. Standard Offer Provider. The provisions of this Chapter that refer to competitive electricity providers apply to standard offer providers.

D. Consumer-Owned Utility Obligations. A consumer-owned utility may carry out the provisions of this Chapter by any of the following methods. The consumer-owned utility shall compensate the investor-owned utility its reasonable costs of carrying out the provisions in this Section.

1. All retail electricity sales to customers of a consumer-owned utility may be treated as if they were made within an adjacent investor-owned transmission and distribution utility for purposes of complying with all provisions of this Chapter.

2. A consumer-owned utility may adopt the load profiles of an adjacent investor-owned transmission and distribution utility to represent customers in the consumer-owned utility's service territory for purposes of complying with Section 4 of this Chapter.

3. A consumer-owned utility may adopt a single load profile per day for all customers receiving standard offer service using the following procedure:

a. The consumer-owned utility shall require all customers who receive generation service from a competitive electricity provider other than the standard offer provider to be telemetered. The transmission and distribution utility shall, at its option, waive the charge to the competitive electricity provider determined pursuant to Section 3.B of this Chapter.

b. The consumer-owned utility shall calculate a single load profile per day for all non-telemetered customers that is equal in each hour to the hourly bulk power meter reading attributable to retail sales, less the sum of the hourly telemetered loads adjusted for line losses attributable to the telemetered customers between the customer delivery point and the point of bulk system metering for purposes of complying with Section 4 of this Chapter.

4. A consumer-owned utility may petition the Commission to use any other method for load profiling or for hourly and monthly load calculations that reasonably complies with the goals of this Chapter.

65- 407 C.M.R. ch. 321, § 2