2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 278 - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 278.285 Demand-side management plans -- Review and approval of proposed plans and mechanisms -- Assignment of costs -- Home energy assistance programs.
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278.285 Demand-side management plans -- Review and approval of proposed
plans and mechanisms -- Assignment of costs -- Home energy assistance
programs.
(1)
(2)
(3)
The commission may determine the reasonableness of demand-side
management plans proposed by any utility under its jurisdiction. Factors to be
considered in this determination include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a) The specific changes in customers' consumption patterns which a utility is
attempting to influence;
(b) The cost and benefit analysis and other justification for specific
demand-side management programs and measures included in a utility's
proposed plan;
(c) A utility's proposal to recover in rates the full costs of demand-side
management programs, any net revenues lost due to reduced sales
resulting from demand-side management programs, and incentives
designed to provide positive financial rewards to a utility to encourage
implementation of cost-effective demand-side management programs;
(d) Whether a utility's proposed demand-side management programs are
consistent with its most recent long-range integrated resource plan;
(e) Whether the plan results in any unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage
to any class of customers;
(f) The extent to which customer representatives and the Office of the
Attorney General have been involved in developing the plan, including
program design, cost recovery mechanisms, and financial incentives, and
if involved, the amount of support for the plan by each participant,
provided however, that unanimity among the participants developing the
plan shall not be required for the commission to approve the plan;
(g) The extent to which the plan provides programs which are available,
affordable, and useful to all customers; and
(h) Next-generation residential utility meters that can provide residents with
amount of current utility usage, its cost, and can be capable of being read
by the utility either remotely or from the exterior of the home.
A proposed demand-side management mechanism including:
(a) Recover the full costs of commission-approved demand-side
management programs and revenues lost by implementing these
programs;
(b) Obtain incentives designed to provide financial rewards to the utility for
implementing cost-effective demand-side management programs; or
(c) Both of the actions specified
may be reviewed and approved by the commission as part of a proceeding for
approval of new rate schedules initiated pursuant to KRS 278.190 or in a
separate proceeding initiated pursuant to this section which shall be limited to a
review of demand-side management issues and related rate-recovery issues
as set forth in subsection (1) of this section and in this subsection.
The commission shall assign the cost of demand-side management programs
only to the class or classes of customers which benefit from the programs. The
(4)
commission shall allow individual industrial customers with energy intensive
processes to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures in lieu of
measures approved as part of the utility's demand-side management programs
if the alternative measures by these customers are not subsidized by other
customer classes. Such individual industrial customers shall not be assigned
the cost of demand-side management programs.
Home energy assistance programs may be part of a demand-side
management program. In considering a home energy assistance program, the
commission shall only utilize the criteria set forth in subsections (1)(f) and (3) of
this section.
Effective:February 25, 2010
History: Repealed and reenacted 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 5, sec. 18, effective February
25, 2010. -- Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 139, sec. 19, effective July 15, 2008. -Amended 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 2, effective June 21, 2001. -- Created 1994
Ky. Acts ch. 238, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1994.
Legislative Research Commission Note (2/25/2010). 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 5,
sec. 28, provides that the repeal and reenactment of this section in that Act
"shall apply retroactively to July 15, 2008."
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