Departing Load definition

Departing Load means the portion of the incumbent utility's s electric customer's load for which the customer, discontinues, or reduces its purchases of bundled or direct access electricity service from the incumbent electric utility, and/or purchases electricity supplied by customer generation to replace incumbent electric utility or direct access purchases, whilst remaining physically located at a particular electric utility service area.

Departing Load means those portions of the utility customer's electric load for which the customer: discontinues or reduces its purchase of bundled or direct access service from the utility; purchases or consumes electricity supplied and delivered by Customer Generation to replace the utility or direct access (DA) purchases; and remains physically located at the same location or elsewhere within the utility's service territory as of April 3, 2003. Reduction in load qualifies as Departing Load only to the extent that such load is subsequently served with electricity from a source other than a utility. This definition of departing load does not include the following:

Departing Load. MEANS THE PORTION OF THE INCUMBENT UTILITY’S ELECTRIC CUSTOMER’S LOAD FOR WHICH THE CUSTOMER, DISCONTINUES, OR REDUCES ITS PURCHASES OF BUNDLED OR DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRICITY SERVICE FROM THE INCUMBENT ELECTRIC UTILITY, AND/OR PURCHASES ELECTRICITY SUPPLIED BY CUSTOMER GENERATION TO REPLACE INCUMBENT ELECTRIC UTILITY OR DIRECT ACCESS PURCHASES, WHILST REMAINING PHYSICALLY LOCATED AT A PARTICULAR ELECTRIC UTILITY SERVICE AREA. 3

Examples of Departing Load in a sentence

• In accordance with Applicable Law, Cost Responsibility Surcharges are recovered from Direct Access Customers, Customer Generation Departing Load Customers, Municipal Departing Load Customers or Community Choice Aggregation Customers.

• CMUA acknowledges that at least a colorable basis exists to apply certain of the cost responsibility surcharges to Municipal Departing Load.

• As reflected below, SDG&E’s alternative proposal provides a measure of relief to Departing Load customers from the PCIA rate increases that would otherwise be required using generation revenue allocation factors.Table 1 - Comparison of Illustrative 2015 Vintage PCIA Rates Under Each Proposal20 Customer Classes As discussed further in the Testimony of Stacy Fuhrer, SDG&E recommends that this alternative proposal be adopted by the Commission for several reasons.

• New Municipal Departing Load is electric load that has never been served by PG&E but locates within PG&E’s service area as it existed on February 1, 2001, and is served by a Publicly Owned Utility (POU).

• Dalton, the principal cause of SDG&E’s trigger situation is the fact that SDG&E’s CAPBA mechanism was set up to have bundled customers fund the revenue shortfall of Departing Load customers due to the $0.005/kWh PCIA rate cap per vintage.

• Change of Party occurs when a person or entity with New Municipal Departing Load leaves the premises with the New Municipal Departing Load and another person or entity (New Party) assumes liability for the New Municipal Departing Load at the same premises.

• The OAS shall be the PG&E schedule under which a Consumer would have taken service if the New Municipal Departing Load had been served by PG&E.

• However, the overall impact of this Application is a rate decrease to bundled customers and a rate increase to Departing Load customers.

• For 2020, the amount of the Departing Load customers’ forecast of PCIA revenues is $28 million.

• SDG&E’s initial proposal seeks to increase PCIA rates for its Departing Load customers using the existing allocation applied for the PCIA common template – i.e., using the generation revenue allocation factors.

More Definitions of Departing Load

Departing Load means that portion of the Utility customer's electric load2 for which the customer: (a) discontinues or reduces its purchase of bundled or direct access service from the Utility; (b) purchases or consumes electricity supplied and delivered by Customer Generation to replace the Utility or direct access purchases; and (c) remains physically located at the same location or elsewhere within the Utility's service territory as of the date on which a Commission decision adopting this Settlement Agreement becomes effective.3 New customer load not meeting the definition in ¶3.12.2 shall be deemed Departing Load under this definition. Reduction in load qualifies as Departing Load only to the extent that such load is subsequently served with electricity from a source other than the Utility. For purposes of this Settlement Agreement, Departing Load shall not include, and the Departing Load charges described in this Settlement Agreement shall not apply to:

Departing Load means that portion of the Utility customer’s electric load2 for which the customer: (a) discontinues or reduces its purchase of bundled or direct access service from the Utility; (b) purchases or consumes electricity supplied and delivered by Customer Generation to replace the Utility or direct access purchases; and (c) remains physically located at the same location or elsewhere within the Utility’s service territory as of the date on which a Commission decision adopting this Settlement Agreement becomes effective.3 New customer load not meeting the definition in ¶3.12.2 shall be deemed Departing Load under this definition. Reduction in load qualifies as Departing 2 Nothing in this Settlement Agreement shall affect the right of any Party to challenge the applicability of the definition of Departing Load to changes in the distribution of load among accounts at a customer site with multiple accounts load resulting from the reconfiguration of distribution facilities on the customer site, provided that the changes do not result in a discontinuance or reduction of service from the Utility at that location as defined in ¶3.12.

Departing Load means that portion of the Utility customer’s electric load2 for which the customer: (a) discontinues or reduces its purchase of bundled or direct access service from the Utility; (b) purchases or consumes electricity supplied and delivered by Customer Generation to replace the Utility or direct access purchases; and (c) remains physically located at the same location or elsewhere within the Utility’s service territory as of the date on which a Commission decision adopting this Settlement Agreement becomes effective.3 New customer load not meeting the definition in ¶3.12.2 shall be deemed Departing Load under this definition. Reduction in load qualifies as Departing Load only to the extent that such load is subsequently served with electricity from a source other than the Utility. For purposes of this Settlement Agreement, Departing Load shall not include, and the Departing Load charges described in this Settlement Agreement shall not apply to: Changes in usage occurring in the normal course of business resulting from changes in business cycles, termination of operations, departure from the utility service territory, weather, reduced production, modifications to production equipment or operations, changes in production or manufacturing processes, fuel switching, enhancement or increased efficiency of equipment or performance of existing Customer Generation equipment, replacement of existing Customer Generation equipment with new power generation equipment of similar size, installation of demand-side management equipment or facilities, energy conservation efforts, or other similar factors. New customer load or incremental load of an existing customer where the load is being met through a direct transaction with Customer Generation and the transaction does not otherwise require the use of transmission or distribution facilities owned by the Utility. Load temporarily taking service from a back-up generation unit during emergency conditions called by the Utility, the California Independent System Operator or any successor system operator. .