Common Use Upgrade definition

Common Use Upgrade or “CUU” shall mean a Network Upgrade that is needed for the interconnection of Generating Facilities or Merchant Transmission Facilities of more than one Project Developer or Eligible Customer and which is the shared responsibility of each Project Developer or Eligible Customer.
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Common Use Upgrade means a Network Upgrade or any other classified addition, alteration, or improvement on the Transmission System or the transmission system of an Affected System, not classified under Attachment FF of the Transmission Provider Tariff as a Baseline Reliability Project, Market Efficiency Project, or Multi-Value Project, that is needed for the interconnection of multiple MHVDC Connection Customers’ and/or Interconnection Customers’ facilities and which is the shared responsibility of such MHVDC Connection Customers and/or Interconnection Customers.
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Common Use Upgrade or “CUU” shall mean an [Interconnection Facility] [Connection Facility], Network Upgrade, System Protection Facility, or any other classified addition, alteration, or improvement on the Transmission System or the transmission system of an Affected System, not classified under Attachment FF as a Baseline Reliability Project, Market Efficiency Project, or Multi-Value Project, that is needed for the interconnection of multiple Customers’ Facilities and which is the shared responsibility of such Customers.
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Examples of Common Use Upgrade in a sentence

  • Transmission Provider will reevaluate the need for any Common Use Upgrade(s) and/or Shared Network Upgrade(s), and if still required, reallocate the cost and responsibility for any Common Use Upgrade and/or Shared Network Upgrade, without a restudy when possible, or with a restudy if the Transmission Provider deems it necessary in order to ensure reliability of the Transmission System.

  • Cost responsibility shall be described as a percentage of the total estimated cost of each Common Use Upgrade.

  • The cost responsibility of each Project Developer for each Common Use Upgrade described in the attached Schedule A shall be described in the attached Schedule B.

  • For a MPFCA, Transmission Provider shall provide the draft MPFCA to all Interconnection Customers that create the need and share the responsibility for the Common Use Upgrade.

  • Each Interconnection Customer will adjust its Security to equal the sum of that Interconnection Customer’s Cost Share Percentage applied to the ACUC (“ACUC Cost Share”) for each Common Use Upgrade subject to this Service Agreement if the one-time true-up adjustment described in Section III.g. determines the ECUC for one or more Common Use Upgrade(s) to be less than the ACUC for those Common Use Upgrade(s).

  • Each Interconnection Customer may reduce its Security to an amount equal to the sum of that Interconnection Customer’s ACUC Cost Share for each Common Use Upgrade subject to this Service Agreement if the one-time true-up adjustment described in Section III.g. determines the ECUC for one or more Common Use Upgrade(s) to be greater than the ACUC for one or more Common Use Upgrade(s).

  • The Common Use Upgrade allows several known beneficiaries of a network upgrade to share the costs of these upgrades in advance.

  • If MISO determines restudy is required because one of the contingencies in Article 11.3.1 of the GIA has occurred, or at MISO’s discretion, MISO will reevaluate the need for the Common Use Upgrade and/or Shared Network Upgrade, and if still required, reallocate the cost and responsibility for any Common Use Upgrade and/or Shared Network Upgrade, without a restudy when possible, or with a restudy if MISO deems it necessary in order to ensure reliability of the Transmission System.

  • This Service Agreement shall continue until twenty (20) years of Annual Payments and the appropriate Prorated Payments for each Common Use Upgrade governed by this Service Agreement have been collected by Owner from each Interconnection Customer (“Term”), subject to Sections IV and V hereof, unless the Parties mutually agree on a different term for this Service Agreement.

  • Transmission facilities are not custom built, so an upgrade generally provides more capacity than is immediately needed (in this case, enough for Generators A, B, and C).60 The SNU designation builds on the Common Use Upgrade already in place in the Tariff.


More Definitions of Common Use Upgrade

Common Use Upgrade or “CUU” shall mean an Interconnection Facility, Network Upgrade and/or Distribution Upgrade that is needed for the interconnection of Generating Facilities of more than one Project Developer or Eligible Customer and which is the shared responsibility of such Project Developers or Eligible Customers.
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Common Use Upgrade or “CUU” shall mean a Network Upgrade that is needed for the interconnection of Generating Facilities or Merchant Transmission Facilities of more than one
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Related to Common Use Upgrade

  • Network Upgrades means modifications or additions to transmission-related facilities that are integrated with and support the Transmission Provider’s overall Transmission System for the general benefit of all users of such Transmission System. Network Upgrades shall include:

  • Upgrade means a major version upgrade of any Platform software.

  • Merchant Network Upgrades means additions to, or modifications or replacements of, physical facilities of the Interconnected Transmission Owner that, on the date of the pertinent Transmission Interconnection Customer’s Upgrade Request, are part of the Transmission System or are included in the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan. Merchant Transmission Facilities:

  • Rear Yard means a yard extending across the full width of a parcel measured perpendicularly from the rear wall(s) of the main building situated on the parcel to the rear property boundary of the parcel [see sketch in Schedule B];

  • Local Upgrades means modifications or additions of facilities to xxxxx any local thermal loading, voltage, short circuit, stability or similar engineering problem caused by the interconnection and delivery of generation to the Transmission System. Local Upgrades shall include:

  • Customer-Funded Upgrade means any Network Upgrade, Local Upgrade, or Merchant Network Upgrade for which cost responsibility (i) is imposed on an Interconnection Customer or an Eligible Customer pursuant to Tariff, Part VI, section 217, or (ii) is voluntarily undertaken by a New Service Customer in fulfillment of an Upgrade Request. No Network Upgrade, Local Upgrade or Merchant Network Upgrade or other transmission expansion or enhancement shall be a Customer-Funded Upgrade if and to the extent that the costs thereof are included in the rate base of a public utility on which a regulated return is earned. Customer Interconnection Facilities: