Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 45, November 9, 2024
Section 59.82 - Annual Conservation Report(a) For purposes of this subchapter, each jurisdictional gas utility with sales of 8 billion cubic feet per year or more including transportation volume, shall submit its Annual Conservation Activities Report and incorporate it with the reporting requirements found at § 59.81(a) (relating to periodic reporting requirements for major gas utilities) on or before June 1 of each year except for Form 1 which is due March 1. The report shall contain a description of conservation and load management programs implemented or operational during the past calendar year and programs which are proposed to be implemented within 1 year following the filing of the report. (1) A conservation program shall include a method designed to produce a reduction in total annual energy use, regardless of its effect on peak demand.(2) A load management program shall include a method to reduce the peak or maximum load or demand, with little or no change in total annual energy use.(b) The description shall conform to the Form-IRP-Gas-5 and shall contain: (1) A descriptive title of the program.(2) The purpose or objective.(3) The details of program activity and implementation schedule.(4) An accounting of the monetary and personnel resources actually or proposed to be expended or devoted to the program.(5) The actual or anticipated results of the program in terms of energy savings, reduction of utility on peak demand or other appropriate measure of the program's objective.(c) The report shall also contain, for each class or type of energy user the number of customers in each class as of the end of the previous year, the total energy consumed by each class and the individual target consumption reductions for each class, as indicated on Form-IRP-Gas-6.(d) The report shall include a summary of programs, as indicated on Form-IRP-Gas-7.(e) For each program with an annual utility expenditure of more than $100,000 or more than 0.1% of total annual revenue, whichever is less, excepting informational, educational or research and development programs, the utility shall submit a cost-benefit analysis using the common evaluation methodology in § 59.83 (relating to evaluation methodology), as indicated on Forms-IRP-Gas-8 and IRP-Gas-9.(f) The Commission, through its Bureau of Conservation, Economics and Energy Planning, may issue a list of specific conservation and load management programs which shall be considered for implementation by each designated utility. The utility shall provide information documenting the consideration of these and other conservation and load management options and supporting the utility's decision of whether or not to implement the options.(g) Utilities shall maintain copies of the annual conservation reports open to public inspection during normal business hours. Customers shall be notified, in writing, of the availability of the reports for public inspection. Notification may be included with customers' monthly bills.(h) The following forms have been provided for under this chapter as a format to be used in preparing the annual conservation report:(1) Form-IRP-Gas-5-Program Description.(2) Form-IRP-Gas-6-Energy Users.(3) Form-IRP-Gas-7-Program Summary.(4) Form-IRP-Gas-8-Cost-Benefit Analysis Inputs.(5) Form-IRP-Gas-9-Cost-Benefit Analysis Results.