Load Cooperative Rider

Application:
The Load Cooperative Rider is an incentive-based rate to achieve voluntary system load reductions via utility-initiated requests to participating customers to curtail loads. Each Load Cooperative participant agrees to reduce temporarily its load on the Austin Energy electrical system by stopping non-critical electric equipment, such as motors, compressors, chillers, and pumps, or by using on-site electrical generation equipment, such as diesel generators. In the short term, this program will reduce the need for Austin Energy to purchase peak period energy on the open market and will also delay the building of generation capacity.

The Load Cooperative Program is available to any large commercial, industrial, or governmental customer of Austin Energy (specified below) that executes a separate agreement for this service, in form and substance acceptable to the City of Austin. The customer must have a minimum of 100 kW of load that can be curtailed for a period of three hours. The curtailed load may be no less than 15 percent of the customer’s normal on-peak summer billed demand. Austin Energy will provide engineering expertise to aid customers in identifying suitable equipment loads that can be curtailed. The customer shall sign an agreement specifying the amount of load that the customer will curtail during specific hours of the day during the months of June, July, August, and September as a condition of taking service under this rider.

Conditions of Service:
This rider is available to the General Service- Demand (E06), Primary Service (E07), Large Primary Service and Large Primary Service Special Contract Rider (E08, E09, and E), Economic Development, Transmission Service (E-11), State General Service - Demand (E14), State Primary Service (E17), State Large Primary Service (E16), Independent School Districts General Service - Demand and Time-of-Use (E10 and E23), Water and Wastewater (E03), and Other City tariffs (E04). The incentive payment for Time-of-Use riders (E09 and E23) will be for load reductions that are not associated with thermal storage technologies. The customer shall continue to be billed under the applicable tariff with the following provisions:

Curtailment Window: 12 Noon to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, June 1 through September 30 (excluding Independence Day and Labor Day).

Minimum Curtailment in any 24-hour period: 3 Hours.

Maximum Number of Curtailments per Year: 15 sessions (with a maximum of 3 consecutive days).

Maximum Number of Consecutive Days with a Curtailment Session: 3

Austin Energy will dispatch curtailment notification to the customer via digital page, e-mail, or telephone at least one hour before the start of a curtailment period. The notification will identify the official starting time of the curtailment period.

The customer's designated representative must confirm the receipt of the curtailment notification and the intent to curtail load with Austin Energy's Load Cooperative designee via digital page, e-mail, or telephone within 30 minutes. The customer must shut down the identified equipment or operate the identified on-site generation equipment throughout the entire curtailment period under the terms of the agreement.

Definitions: The following definitions apply in the computation of the incentive payments.

(1) Contracted kW: the agreed-upon estimate of the electric load available for each curtailment session.

(2) Baseline kW: the average kW recorded during the one-hour period beginning two hours before the start of the curtailment session, unless superseded by the agreement.

(3) Curtailment kW: the average kW recorded during the curtailment session.

(4) Delivered kW: the monthly average kW of the curtailed load (Baseline kW minus Curtailment kW).

(5) Delivered kWh: the kWh reduced during the curtailment session (Delivered kW multiplied by the number of hours in the curtailment session).

Rate: Incentive payments will consist of two components:

1) Load Reduction Premium: Austin Energy shall pay a premium of $ 1.25 per kW for Delivered kW which has been delivered that month. In the event that no curtailment session occurs during one or more of the months of the contract period, the Load Premium's incentive payment for that month(s) will be the lesser of:

• $ 1.25/kW multiplied by the Contracted kW, or;
• $ 1.25/kW multiplied by the customer's previous Delivered kW.

2) Consumption Incentive: Austin Energy will pay customer $ 0.15 per kWh for all Delivered kWh that month. If no curtailment session occurs during one or more of the months in the contract period, the Consumption Incentive for that month(s) is not applicable.

Austin Energy shall provide all necessary metering equipment and data analysis to determine the customer's incentive payments and all records and calculations are open for inspection during business hours (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday - Friday).

If a Load Cooperative customer fails to curtail the load identified in the agreement, Austin Energy may terminate the agreement. Austin Energy may waive one failure to meet the curtailment request per year if Austin Energy determines that circumstances prevented the customer from meeting the curtailment request and the customer notified Austin Energy of the inability to comply with the request before the start of the curtailment period. A customer whose agreement is terminated is ineligible for future incentive payments, but will not be required to refund any payments previously received.

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