Common use of Forced Outage Clause in Contracts

Forced Outage. The discovery of a problem that needs to be repaired as soon as crews, equipment, and/or corrective dispatch actions can be put in place to allow the work to be performed. By definition, a Forced Outage cannot be scheduled. More specifically:  A Forced Outage cannot be delayed to avoid paying overtime rates; e.g., on a Friday, delaying a Forced Outage until Monday, rather than performing the work on Saturday. This implies that a Forced Outage must occur on consecutive days, except in the case described in the next bullet  A Forced Outage cannot schedule an Alternate Date. If weather impairs safe work conditions, the outage can be moved to the next available fair weather day, and the planned end date/time shall be extended  An Opportunity Outage that unexpectedly causes additional adverse impact on either system reliability or market efficiency beyond that which was originally anticipated. Typically this would be associated with the unexpected extension of the defined timing parameters.

Forced Outage. The discovery of a problem that needs to be repaired as soon as crews, equipment, and/or corrective dispatch actions can may be put in place to allow the work to be performed. By definition, a Forced Outage cannot be scheduled. More specifically:  A Forced Outage cannot be delayed to avoid paying overtime rates; e.g., on a Friday, delaying a Forced Outage until Monday, rather than performing the work on Saturday. This implies that a Forced Outage must occur on consecutive days, except in the case described in the next bullet  A Forced Outage cannot schedule an Alternate Date. If weather impairs safe work conditions, the outage can may be moved to the next available fair weather day, and the planned end date/time shall be extended  An Opportunity Outage that unexpectedly causes additional adverse impact on either system reliability or market efficiency beyond that which was originally anticipated. Typically this would be associated with the unexpected extension of the defined timing parameters.

Forced Outage. The discovery of a problem that needs to be repaired as soon as crews, equipment, and/or corrective dispatch actions can be put in place to allow the work to be performed. By definition, a Forced Outage cannot be scheduled. More specifically:  ▪ A Forced Outage cannot be delayed to avoid paying overtime rates; e.g., on a Friday, delaying a Forced Outage until Monday, rather than performing the work on Saturday. This implies that a Forced Outage must occur on consecutive days, except in the case described in the next bullet  ▪ A Forced Outage cannot schedule an Alternate Date. If weather impairs safe work conditions, the outage can be moved to the next available fair weather day, and the planned end date/time shall be extended  ▪ An Opportunity Outage that unexpectedly causes additional adverse impact on either system reliability or market efficiency beyond that which was originally anticipated. Typically this would be associated with the unexpected extension of the defined timing parameters.