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Virginia Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017) |
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Title 20. Public Utilities and Telecommunications |
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Agency 5. State Corporation Commission |
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Chapter 316. Rules Governing Exemptions for Large Generalservices Customers under §56-585.1 a 5 C of the Code of Virginia |
Section 30. Standard criteria for notice to utility
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A. Each notice of nonparticipation shall identify the customer, the customer's billing address and utility account number, and the location of the specific facility and metering point for which any such exemption is being sought.
B. The notice of nonparticipation shall also contain an affidavit signed by the customer's president, corporate secretary, or other officer of the customer concerning the program or programs. Such affidavit shall attest to the validity of information submitted in support of the customer's notice of nonparticipation.
C. The notice of nonparticipation shall describe the energy efficiency savings achieved or expected to be achieved from its investment in its program and the specific measures undertaken to achieve those savings.
D. The notice of nonparticipation shall include information concerning any anticipated change in operations that may affect achieved or expected energy efficiency savings, including the life expectancy of the energy efficiency measures undertaken.
E. To qualify for the exemption, each customer shall have or expect to have measurable, verifiable, and significant energy efficiency savings consistent with § 56-585.1 A 5 c of the Code of Virginia. Additionally, each customer providing a notice of nonparticipation to its utility pursuant to this chapter shall subsequently furnish yearly reports to the commission's Division of Energy Regulation describing the energy efficiency savings achieved by the customer during each 12-month period in which such notice of nonparticipation is in effect. Such reports shall be filed on or about March 1 of the year following such customer's filing of its notice of nonparticipation, with such March 1 filings continuing thereafter throughout the life of the customer's energy efficiency improvements described in the customer's notice of nonparticipation.
F. Each notice of nonparticipation shall also include a measurement and verification plan conforming to the protocol set forth in the definition of "measured and verified" as provided in § 56-576 of the Code of Virginia.
G. Not later than December 31 of each year, each utility shall notify its customers of the percentage energy efficiency reductions expected to be achieved by the utility's energy efficiency programs for which the commission has approved rate adjustment clauses pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 5 c of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Volume 26, Issue 07, eff. December 1, 2009.