Common use of Reservation Priority for Existing Firm Service Customers Clause in Contracts

Reservation Priority for Existing Firm Service Customers. Existing firm service customers (wholesale requirements and transmission- only, with a contract term of five years or more other than customers that have signed a Precedent Transmission Service Agreement under Sections 19.10 or 32.6), have the right to continue to take transmission service from the Transmission Provider when the contract expires, rolls over or is renewed. Existing firm service customers whose Service Agreement includes service requested under a Precedent Transmission Service Agreement with a contract term of five years or more for the service requested under a Precedent Transmission Service Agreement, have the right to continue to take transmission service from the Transmission Provider when such contract expires, rolls over or is renewed. This transmission reservation priority is independent of whether the existing customer continues to purchase capacity and energy from the Transmission Provider or elects to purchase capacity and energy from another supplier. If at the end of the contract term, the Transmission Provider's Transmission System cannot accommodate all of the requests for transmission service, the existing firm service customer must agree to accept a contract term at least equal to a competing request by any new Eligible Customer and to pay the current rate, as determined pursuant to Section 7 of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 (Northwest Power Act), for such service; provided that, the firm service customer shall have a right of first refusal at the end of such service only if the new contract is for five years or more. The existing firm service customer must provide notice to the Transmission Provider whether it will exercise its right of first refusal no less than one year prior to the expiration date of its transmission service agreement. This transmission reservation priority for existing firm service customers is an ongoing right that may be exercised at the end of all firm contract terms of five years or longer.

Reservation Priority for Existing Firm Service Customers. Existing firm service customers (wholesale and transmission requirements and transmission- only, with a contract term of five years or more other than customers that have signed a Precedent Transmission Service Agreement under Sections 19.10 or 32.6), more) have the right to continue to take transmission service from use the Transmission Provider when the contract expires, rolls over or is renewed. Existing firm service customers whose Service Agreement includes service requested under a Precedent Provider’s Transmission Service Agreement with a contract term of five years or more for the service requested under a Precedent Transmission Service Agreement, have the right to continue to take transmission service from the Transmission Provider when such their contract expires, rolls over or is renewed. This transmission reservation priority is independent of whether the existing customer continues to purchase capacity and energy electricity from the Transmission Provider or elects to purchase capacity and energy electricity from another supplierDelivering Party. If at the end of the contract term, the Transmission Provider's Transmission System cannot accommodate all of the requests for transmission serviceTransmission Service, the existing firm service customer must agree to accept a contract term at least equal to a competing request by any new Eligible Customer and to pay the current just and reasonable rate, as determined pursuant to Section 7 of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 (Northwest Power Act), for such service; provided that, . This right of the firm service existing customer shall have a (hereafter "right of first refusal at the end of such service only if refusal") is conditional upon the new contract is for having a term of five years or morelonger. The existing firm service customer must provide notice to the Transmission Provider whether it will exercise its right of first refusal no less than one year prior to the expiration date of its transmission service agreement. This transmission reservation priority for existing firm service customers is an ongoing right that may be exercised at the end of all firm contract terms contracts of five years or longer. Unless they have been revoked, service agreements subject to a right of first refusal that have been entered into prior to January 1, 2013 or associated with a transmission service request received prior to that date (hereafter "current service agreements") whose term expires within five years following that date will become subject to the five year/one year requirement on the first rollover date, provided that, the existing firm service customer has provided notice to the Transmission Provider whether it will exercise its right of first refusal no less than 60 days prior to the expiry of said term. Unless they have been revoked, the five year/one year requirement shall apply to current service agreements with five years or more in their terms as of the date established above.