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./j 1 Elk Riv:�r Munici o I al Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: Elk River M cipal Utilities Commission Tom Sagstetter—Conservation and Key Accounts John Dietz— I air Manager Al Nadeau— ice Chair Daryl Thompson—Trustee MEETING DI., TE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: May 20, 2014 5.1 SUBJECT: Dispersed Ge -ration (On-Site Generator)/Interruptible Load Program BACKGRO D: Currently E' i U offers two programs that provide financial incentives for large commercial or industrial custlihers to avoid using large amounts of energy over the ERMU coincidental billing peak. There a - two programs that customers can participate in. The first is the Dispersed Generation/Interruptible Program. This program requires that a customer completely disconnect from the distri s ution system when called on or reduce their load to a Pre-determined Demand Level (PDL). ustomers can either reduce demand by using a back-up generator or they can manually deer i ase load to reach their PDL without a back-up generator. The second pr i gram is the Off-Peak Program where customers customize their production hours to avoid majo energy consumption between the hours of 3:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. This program has lo er demand costs for the entire month as long as the customer does not run Monday throu-,h Friday between the peak hours of 3:00 to 10:00 p.m. Any demand that is recorded duri the peak hours is billed at the applicable Demand Rate for that month. At this time b s h programs are available for all commercial customers that are demand billed and have a peak loi d of at least 100 kW. The Dispersed Generation/Interruptible Program is a program that i I offered through the ERMU wholesale power provider and is strongly recommended l or only customers who have back-up generation. Customers that participate in the Dispersed 1 eneration/Interruptible Program that do not have back-up generation are challenged to 1 eet the requirements for interrupting load or operating over the coincidental billing peak if hey are not operating 24 hour per day, 7 days a week. Customers pa `icipating in the Dispersed Generation/Interruptible Program are generally given at least 30 minutes' notice to reduce load to zero, or to their PDL or below, on any given day and time. If the c ,tomer is not operating, there is no load to provide a monthly billing credit. If the customer is ping and does not drop load they can be financially penalized and removed from the program. . 'POWERED 11 p : Page 1 of 4 NATURE Reliable Public Power Provider P O W E R E D T o S E R V E 83