LPA-02-16-00014-P Dynamic Load Management Programs Including Direct Load Control, Peak Shaving, and Contingency Load Relief

1/13/16 N.Y. St. Reg. LPA-02-16-00014-P

NEW YORK STATE REGISTER

VOLUME XXXVIII, ISSUE 2

January 13, 2016

RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES

LONG ISLAND POWER AUTHORITY

PROPOSED RULE MAKING

HEARING(S) SCHEDULED

 

I.D No. LPA-02-16-00014-P

Dynamic Load Management Programs Including Direct Load Control, Peak Shaving, and Contingency Load Relief

PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:

Proposed Action:

The Long Island Power Authority (“LIPA”) is considering a proposal to modify its Tariff for Electric Service (“Tariff”) to establish dynamic load management programs consistent with tariff revisions approved by the New York PSC for the regulated utilities.

Statutory authority:

Public Authorities Law, sections 1020-f(z), (u) and (gg)

Subject:

Dynamic load management programs including direct load control, peak shaving, and contingency load relief.

Purpose:

To establish dynamic load management programs consistent with tariff revisions approved by the PSC for the regulated utilities.

Public hearing(s) will be held at:

10:00 a.m., Feb. 29, 2016 at H. Lee Dennison Bldg., 100 Veterans Memorial Hwy., Hauppauge, NY; 2:00 p.m., Feb. 29, 2016 at 333 Earle Ovington Blvd., 4th Fl., Uniondale, NY.

Interpreter Service:

Interpreter services will be made available to hearing impaired persons, at no charge, upon written request submitted within reasonable time prior to the scheduled public hearing. The written request must be addressed to the agency representative designated in the paragraph below.

Accessibility:

All public hearings have been scheduled at places reasonably accessible to persons with a mobility impairment.

Substance of proposed rule:

The Long Island Power Authority (“the Authority”) proposes to modify the Tariff for Electric Service (“Tariff”) effective April 1, 2016 to authorize three dynamic load management programs: (1) a Direct Load Control program; (2) a Commercial System Relief Program; and (3) a Distribution Load Relief Program. These programs are proposed to conform with NY Public Service Commission (“PSC”) policy for innovative demand response programs consistent with the New York Reforming the Energy Vision (“REV”) initiative.

The three dynamic load management programs that the Authority proposes are similar to programs that the NY PSC has authorized for each of the major regulated electric utilities in the State and have been designed to provide similar benefits to both participants and the electric system.

The Direct Load Control program will pay customers to install devices that allow the utility to turn off or limit the use of selected end uses, such as air conditioners and pool pumps. The Distribution Load Relief Program will create the opportunity for market participants to identify and implement load relief measures that would be called upon to address reliability problems as may occur at specific locations along the transmission and distribution system. The Commercial System Relief Program would create the opportunity for market participants to identify and implement load relief measures that would be called upon in anticipation of peak system loads, thereby reducing the need to expand or reinforce the transmission and distribution system.

Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained from:

Justin Bell, Long Island Power Authority, 333 Earle Ovington Blvd., Suite 403, Uniondale, NY 11553, [phone], email: [e-mail]

Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:

Same as above.

Public comment will be received until:

Five days after the last scheduled public hearing.

Regulatory Impact Statement, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, Rural Area Flexibility Analysis and Job Impact Statement

Statements and analyses are not submitted with this notice because the proposed rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.