Section 10. Applicability and scope

This chapter is promulgated pursuant to the provisions of § 56-585.1 A 5 c of the Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act, Chapter 23 (§ 56-576 et seq.) of Title 56 of the Code of Virginia. This chapter is specifically applicable to the large general service customers (customers or customer) of Virginia's electric utilities (utilities or utility) subject to the provisions of § 56-585.1 A 5 c that have verifiable histories of using more than 500 kilowatts but no more than 10 megawatts of demand from a single metering point. As used in this chapter, a customer comprises all of the individual electric utility accounts owned by a single entity, located on a single site, and that are engaged in the same business. This chapter is also applicable to customers with highest measured demands from a single metering point of more than 500 kilowatts in any single month if such customers do not have three calendar years of history. A customer is eligible for an exemption from any rate adjustment clause approved for a utility by the State Corporation Commission (commission) pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 5 c of the Code of Virginia, if any customer can demonstrate that it has implemented an energy efficiency program (program), at the customer's expense, that has produced or will produce measured and verified results.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 26, Issue 07, eff. December 1, 2009.

Statutory Authority

§§ 12.1-13 and 56-585.1 of the Code of Virginia.