65- 407 C.M.R. ch. 334, § 6

Current through 2024-25, June 19, 2024

Section 407-334-6 - INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS TO SHOW NEED TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENT

A utility shall submit the following data to the Commission with any petition filed under this chapter.

A. Load forecast. The projected kilowatt and kilowatt-hour demands by month, day and hour of use for each year during the succeeding thirty (30) years. the projection shall include:

1. The utility's load forecast assumptions by class and the bases therefor;

2. if the projection involves the use of a computer program, a description of the computer logic;

3. if the projection is based in part on reports generated by external sources, the title and date of the reports; and

4. if the projection is in the form of an internally or externally prepared report adopted by the utility, a copy of the report.

B. Preferred energy resource plan. The utility shall describe its energy resource plan for the succeeding thirty years, which includes the capacity and energy which the proposed agreement or contract is designed to provide. The energy resource plan also shall include:

1. The utility's plan for the addition of all capacity by amount and type, for purchases and reasonably anticipated sales of energy and energy and capacity, and for capacity retirements for each year; including all reasonably anticipated qualifying facility power;

2. a complete description of planned conservation and load management programs which will be used to limit customer demand showing the expected energy and capacity savings, by moth, day and hour for each year of the forecast period;

3. if the energy resource plan is generated through the use of a computer program, a description of the computer logic;

4. if the energy resource plan is not generated through the use of a computer program, a description of alternative plans considered, the assumptions used with respect to each alternative plan considered, and the basis for choosing the plans adopted by the utility;

5. if the plan is based in part on reports generated by external sources, the title and date of the reports;

6. if the plan includes anticipated energy resources for which a firm contractual commitment has not yet been made, a description of all assumptions concerning the anticipated terms of the contract or nature of the resource; and

7. if the plan is in the form of an internally or externally prepared report adopted by the utility, a copy of the report.

C. Alternative energy resource plan. The utility shall describe reasonable alternative resource plans to that provided in subsection B. Each alternative energy resource plan shall include the items in subsection B above.

D. Costs. The utility's projected costs and revenue requirements associated with the preferred energy resource plan and alternative energy resource plans. The projections shall include:

1. The estimated capacity costs at completion of any planned capacity additions and planned firm capacity purchases, expressed in dollars per kilowatt per individual unit or purchase;

2. the estimated energy production and associated energy costs of each unit or purchase expressed in cents per kilowatt-hour per individual unit or purchase;

3. the total estimated capacity and energy costs of each planned capacity addition and each planned firm capacity purchase expressed in cents per kilowatt-hour for each year of the useful life of the planned capacity addition or firm purchase. The time period for which these costs shall be expressed shall be the same as the preferred energy resource plans filed under subsection B, and alternative energy resource plans filed under subsection C;

4. the total estimated capacity and energy costs of each purchase of energy or capacity on a non-firm basis for each year of the energy resource plans;

5. the total estimated cost to the utility of each conservation or load management program expressed as cost per unit of energy or capacity or both saved over the useful life of the measure;

6. if the projections involve the use of a computer program, a description of the computer logic;

7. if the projections are based in part on reports generated by external sources, the title and date of the reports; and

8. if the projections are in the form of reports adopted by the utility, a copy of the reports.

65- 407 C.M.R. ch. 334, § 6