[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60414-60415]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26025]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Bonneville Power Administration


Opportunity for Public Comment; Regarding Bonneville Power 
Administration's Conservation and Renewables Discount Implementation 
Manual

AGENCY: Bonneville Power Administration, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of public review of Draft Conservation and Renewables 
Discount Implementation Manual and Regional Technical Forum 
Recommendations.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce a public review of 
the Draft Conservation and Renewables Discount (C&R Discount) 
Implementation Manual and the supporting Regional Technical Forum (RTF) 
recommendations/material. Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is 
publishing a draft C&R Discount Implementation Manual, for public 
comment, as a result of the decision in BPA's 2002 Wholesale Power Rate 
Case (WP-02) to establish guidelines for the C&R Discount Program. 
After the public comment period, the C&R Discount Implementation Manual 
will be published in its final version and will be used to implement 
the C&R Discount Program.
    Interested parties can find the Draft C&R Discount Implementation 
Manual at http://www.bpa.gov/Energy/N/c&r.htm and RTF work products can 
be found at the Northwest Power Planning Council's web site http://www.nwppc.org/rtf.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before November 27, 2000. The 
number, dates, and locations of the public review meetings have not 
been determined. These details will be posted on BPA's web page, http://www.bpa.gov/Energy/N/c&r.htm, as soon as they are available.

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the Draft C&R Discount Implementation 
Manual can be sent to Mark Johnson--PNG/1, BPA, P.O. Box 3621, 
Portland, OR, 97208-3621 or e-mailed to him at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Johnson--PNG-1, Bonneville Power 
Administration, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, OR 97208-3621, e-mail: 
[email protected], Phone: 503-230-7669.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of BPA's 2002 Power Rate Proposal, 
0.5 mills per kWh was added to the basic rate for Subscription Power 
Purchases and settlement benefits. This 0.5 mills is referred to as the 
Conservation and Renewables Discount.
    BPA is offering the C&R Discount to customers purchasing under the 
Priority Firm Power (PF-02), New Resource Firm Power (NR-02), and 
Residential Load (RL-02) rate schedules. Purchasers of the Slice 
product and benefits provided as a cash payment in settlement of the 
Residential Exchange Program will also be eligible for the C&R 
Discount.
    Customers purchasing under the Industrial Firm Power rate (IP-02) 
will be eligible to the extent that the C&R Discount does not reduce 
their effective rate below the DSI floor rate. Regional public agency 
customers with Pre-Subscription contracts with collared pricing 
provisions may be eligible for the C&R Discount subject to contract 
provisions.
    The amount of the C&R Discount will be a fixed monthly amount based 
on the customer's forecasted purchases and Residential Exchange Program 
settlement benefits from BPA under its Subscription contract.
    Purchasers accepting the monthly C&R Discount agree to abide by the 
implementation provisions specified in the C&R Discount Implementation 
Manual. This notice announces a public review of the Draft C&R Discount 
Implementation Manual.
    The Northwest Power Planning Council (Council) formed a Regional 
Technical Forum (RTF) to facilitate the development of conservation and 
renewable resources in the Pacific Northwest and assist BPA in 
implementing a conservation and renewables discount on BPA's new rates. 
The RTF was asked, by BPA, to make the following recommendations to BPA 
to facilitate the operation of the conservation and renewable resources 
discount program.
     A list of eligible conservation measures and programs, 
their estimated savings, and the estimated regional power system value 
associated with those savings.
     A process for updating the list as technology and standard 
practices change and an appeals process through which customers can 
demonstrate that different savings and value estimates should apply.
     A set of protocols by which the savings and system value 
of measures/programs not on the list could be estimated. These would 
include complex commercial or industrial projects.
     Recommended protocols for measurement and evaluation of 
savings.
    With respect to renewables, the RTF was asked to:

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     Develop a list of pre-approved Demonstration (RD&D) 
activities.
     Develop quality control criteria for direct application 
renewables and distributed resources that will be credited based on a 
``deemed'' amount of output.
     Develop evaluation criteria to be used on a case-by-case 
basis to determine whether or not a proposed activity is RD&D.
     Develop criteria for determining what constitutes a 
``new'' facility, as opposed to an expansion or addition to an existing 
facility.
     When requested by Bonneville, assist in evaluating 
proposals for which eligibility may be unclear.
    The RTF recommendations and the Draft C&R Discount Implementation 
Manual will be the subject of the public review noticed hereunder. It 
is BPA's intent to give customers and interested parties the 
opportunity to comment before publishing final versions of the C&R 
Discount Manual and BPA's decisions on how to implement the RTF's 
recommendations.

    Issued in Portland, Oregon on September 25, 2000.
Judith A. Johansen,
Administrator and Chief Executive Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-26025 Filed 10-10-00; 8:45 am]
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