Utah Code 54-17-805. Costs associated with delivering electricity from a clean energy facility to a contract customer
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(1) To the extent that a clean energy contract provides for the delivery of electricity from a clean energy facility owned by the contract customer, the clean energy contract shall require the contract customer to pay for the use of the qualified utility‘s transmission or distribution facilities at the qualified utility’s applicable rates, which may include transmission costs at the qualified utility’s applicable rate approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Terms Used In Utah Code 54-17-805
- Clean energy contract: means a contract under this part for the delivery of electricity from one or more clean energy facilities to a contract customer requiring the use of a qualified utility's transmission or distribution system to deliver the electricity from a clean energy facility to the contract customer. See Utah Code 54-17-801
- Clean energy facility: means a clean energy source as defined in Section
54-17-601 that:(2)(a)(i) is located in the state; or(2)(a)(ii)(2)(a)(ii)(A) is located outside the state; and(2)(a)(ii)(B) provides energy from baseload clean resources. See Utah Code 54-17-801- Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Contract customer: means a person who executes or will execute a clean energy contract with a qualified utility. See Utah Code 54-17-801
- Person: means :
(24)(a) an individual;(24)(b) an association;(24)(c) an institution;(24)(d) a corporation;(24)(e) a company;(24)(f) a trust;(24)(g) a limited liability company;(24)(h) a partnership;(24)(i) a political subdivision;(24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and(24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5- Qualified utility: means an electric corporation that serves more than 200,000 retail customers in the state. See Utah Code 54-17-801
(2) To the extent that a clean energy contract provides for the delivery of electricity from a clean energy facility owned by a person other than the qualified utility or the contract customer, the clean energy contract shall require the contract customer to bear all reasonably identifiable costs that the qualified utility incurs in delivering the electricity from the clean energy facility to the contract customer, including all costs to procure and deliver electricity and for billing, administrative, and related activities, as determined by the commission.(3) A qualified utility that enters a clean energy contract shall charge a contract customer for all metered electric service delivered to the contract customer, including generation, transmission, and distribution service, at the qualified utility’s applicable tariff rates, excluding:(3)(a) any kilowatt hours of electricity delivered from the clean energy facility, based on the time of delivery, adjusted for transmission losses;(3)(b) any kilowatts of electricity delivered from the clean energy facility that coincide with the contract customer’s monthly metered kilowatt demand measurement, adjusted for transmission losses;(3)(c) any transmission and distribution service that the contract customer pays for under Subsection (1) or (2); and(3)(d) any transmission service that the contract customer provides under Subsection (2) to deliver generation from the clean energy facility.