2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
Chapter 5 - Powers and Duties
524 - Data to be supplied by electric utilities.

     § 524.  Data to be supplied by electric utilities.
        (a)  General rule.--Effective December 31, 1987, each public
     utility producing, generating, distributing or furnishing
     electricity shall submit annually to the commission information
     concerning its future plans to meet its customer demand,
     including, but not limited to, the following data:
            (1)  A year-by-year projection of electrical energy use
        and electrical energy demand for each of the next 20 years.
        The forecast shall examine alternative scenarios for demand
        growth and shall be divided into the residential, commercial,
        industrial and utility sectors.
            (2)  A year-by-year projection of all available sources
        of supply for each of the next 20 years, including, but not
        limited to, the following:
                (i)  Electric generating capacity from centralized
            power plants over 25,000 KW indicating planned additions,
            retirements, purchases and all other expected changes in
            levels of generating capacity.
                (ii)  The projected utilization, and the potential
            for additional utilization, of cogeneration and
            nonconventional technologies relying on renewable energy
            resources, including, but not limited to, solar, wind,
            biomass and geothermal and other small power technologies
            not accounted for in subparagraph (i). The information
            shall identify specifically any such capacity that is
            expected to or may be available to each utility.
            (3)  A year-by-year examination of the potential for
        promoting and ensuring the full utilization of all practical
        and economical energy conservation for the next 20 years and
        a discussion of how existing and planned utility programs do
        or do not adequately reach this potential. Such programs
        should include, but not be limited to, educational, audit,
        loan, rebate, third-party financing and load management
        efforts to shift load from peak to off-peak periods.
            (4)  An explanation of how the utility has integrated all
        demand-side and supply-side options to derive a resource mix
        to meet customer demand.
            (5)  A comparison of the total annual cost to customers
        and to the company of the utility's plan to meet new demand
        compared with alternative plans for the next 20 years.
            (6)  A discussion of the methodologies, assumptions and
        data sources used to determine the projections and estimates
        required by paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5).
            (7)  With respect to the planned construction of any new
        generation or production facilities, the utility shall
        provide all of the following:
                (i)  A discussion of proposed and alternative sites
            for the construction and operation of planned facilities
            and an estimate of the effect on annual costs of each
            alternative considered.
                (ii)  A discussion of the type of fuel and method of
            generation to be used at the proposed facility as well as
            alternative types of facilities studied and an estimate
            of the effect upon annual costs of the various
            alternative types of facilities considered.
                (iii)  A discussion of expected financial impacts and
            requirements of construction and operation of the
            proposed facility, as well as alternative facilities.
                (iv)  A discussion of why all the alternatives
            considered were rejected.
        (b)  Report.--The commission shall prepare a report
     summarizing and discussing the data provided pursuant to
     subsection (a) and annually, on or before September 1, shall
     submit the report to the General Assembly, the Governor, the
     Office of Consumer Advocate and each affected public utility.
        (c)  Regulations.--The commission shall promulgate
     regulations to establish the specific forms and methods of
     reporting the information to be submitted pursuant to subsection
     (a).
        (d)  Effect of submission of information.--Neither the
     submission to the commission of the information required by
     subsection (a) or the issuance by the commission of a report on
     the information, or anything contained in such reports, or any
     action taken by the commission as a result of the issuance of
     such reports, shall be considered or construed as approval or
     acceptance by the commission of any of the plans, assumptions or
     calculations made by the public utility and reflected in the
     information submitted.
     (July 10, 1986, P.L.1238, No.114, eff. imd.)

        1986 Amendment.  Act 114 added section 524.

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