OAR 330-140-0090
Exclusion from Payment of a Portion of the Public Purpose Charge
(1)
Retail electricity consumers approved to become self-directing consumers by the Oregon Department of Energy may request exclusion from payment of a maximum of 54 percent of the public purpose charges for energy conservation for a specific site. Oregon Department of Energy shall notify the retail electricity consumer’s electric distribution utility of the request for exclusion from payment of a portion of public purpose charges.(2)
To be eligible for relief from payment of public purpose charges, an independent energy audit shall determine that all new energy conservation with a simple payback of one year or greater and ten years or less has been implemented at the site or that the cost of any uninstalled new energy conservation projects identified in the independent energy audit are paid first.(3)
The independent energy audit estimated cost for the new energy conservation measure must be paid as a public purpose charge up to the amount of the energy conservation portion of the retail electricity consumer’s public purpose charges. The retail electricity consumer may only be relieved of public purposes costs above the auditor’s estimated cost for the new energy conservation that the electricity consumer has chosen not to install up to the maximum stated under these rules.(4)
By the second annual anniversary of the date that the Oregon Department of Energy grants exclusion from payment of a portion of public purpose charges, the retail electricity consumer shall enter into an agreement to commence another independent energy audit.(5)
The large electricity consumer shall notify their electric distribution utility that a certificate of eligibility to be relieved of a portion of public purpose charges owed has been issued for that site prior to claiming any credit allowed under this rule against public purpose charges owed.
Source:
Rule 330-140-0090 — Exclusion from Payment of a Portion of the Public Purpose Charge, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=330-140-0090.