Operating and Maintenance Expenses Subject to the provisions herein addressing the use of facilities by others, and except for operations and maintenance expenses associated with modifications made for providing interconnection or transmission service to a third party and such third party pays for such expenses, Developer shall be responsible for all reasonable expenses including overheads, associated with: (1) owning, operating, maintaining, repairing, and replacing Developer’s Attachment Facilities; and (2) operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of Connecting Transmission Owner’s Attachment Facilities. The Connecting Transmission Owner shall be entitled to the recovery of incremental operating and maintenance expenses that it incurs associated with System Upgrade Facilities and System Deliverability Upgrades if and to the extent provided for under Attachment S to the ISO OATT.
Emergency Maintenance LightEdge reserves the right to perform emergency Service maintenance as needed outside the Scheduled Maintenance window, in which case LightEdge will make a reasonable effort to notify the Customer if feasible under the circumstances. Any such maintenance will be considered an “Emergency Maintenance”. All Service SLAs will apply during Emergency Maintenance.
Operating Budget Attached hereto as Exhibit C is the annual operating budget for the Company for the remainder of the 2007 Fiscal Year. On October 31 of each Fiscal Year of the Company commencing on October 31, 2007, the Operating Member shall submit a new annual operating budget for the Company for the ensuing Fiscal Year for the review and approval of the Management Committee (the initial and each new annual operating budget, as approved, being the “Operating Budget”). Each Operating Budget shall set forth on a detailed itemized basis: (i) all receipts projected for the period of such Operating Budget and all expenses, by category, for the Company (including, without limitation, all repairs and capital expenditures projected to be incurred during such period), (ii) the anticipated operating reserves and working capital projected to be required for such period, (iii) a schedule setting forth the timing and amount of any Additional Contributions projected to be required by the Members for such Fiscal Year (or other period); and (iv) a five (5)-year projection setting forth the estimated revenues, expenses and net operating income (or loss) expected to be incurred for the next five (5) years for the Company which shall be updated to compare the actual results to the projected results set forth in the prior Operating Budget. The Operating Budget shall also include a detailed description of such other information, contracts, agreements and other matters reasonably necessary to inform the Management Committee of all matters relevant to the ownership, operation, management, maintenance, leasing and sale of the Project (or any portion thereof) or as may be reasonably requested by any representative of the Management Committee. Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, the Operating Member shall only have the authority to incur the costs and expenditures set forth in an approved Operating Budget (subject to the ability to apply line item cost savings, contingency line item amounts, budget variances, etc., if any, contained in such Operating Budget, as and if so permitted by the parameters of such Operating Budget), without any further approval of the Management Committee (or the Members). Except as otherwise provided within any Operating Budget, the Operating Budget may not be increased without the prior approval of the Management Committee.