Common use of Standby Service Clause in Contracts

Standby Service. Available to customers with generation facilities that are located within the Company’s retail service territory and directly interconnected with the Company. Customers who desire the Company to serve the power supply requirements of load that is normally served by the customer’s generator or prime mover must take standby service under the provisions of this rider unless otherwise exempted by order of the Michigan Public Service Commission or by the provisions set forth below and must take supplemental service on one of the applicable filed rates listed below. Customers purchasing their entire energy requirements from the Company with generators or prime movers installed for use only in emergency will not be considered as taking standby service. Customers with generators or prime movers installed solely for use to provide a load for testing equipment such as regenerative dynamometers may elect not to purchase standby energy service for that equipment under this rider, must meet the applicable parallel operation requirement, must purchase power that would, absent this provision, be considered standby on another rate schedule and must take standby for any additional generating equipment normally serving site load. Customers with solar self-generating projects and taking service under a tariff with demand based distribution charges may elect not to purchase standby energy service for that equipment under this rider, must meet the applicable parallel operation requirements, must purchase power that would, absent this provision, be considered standby on another rate schedule and must take standby for any additional generating equipment normally serving site load. Primary Supply Rate Schedule Designation D11