Appendix D - BC Hydro - Transmission
Appendix D - BC Hydro - Transmission Appendix D - BC Hydro - Transmission
4.2 Clustering.At Transmission Provider's option, Interconnection Requests may be studied serially or inclusters for the purpose of the Interconnection System Impact Study.using Clusteringshall be implemented on the basis of Queue Position. If Transmission Provider elects tostudy Interconnection Requests using Clustering, all Interconnection Requests receivedwithin a period not to exceed one hundred and eighty (180) Calendar Days, hereinafterreferred to as the "Queue Cluster Window", shall be studied together without regard tothe nature of the underlying Interconnection Service, whether Energy ResourceInterconnection Service or Network Resource Interconnection Service. The deadline forcompleting all Interconnection System Impact Studies for which an InterconnectionSystem Impact Study Agreement has been executed during a Queue Cluster Windowshall be in accordance with Section 7.4, for all Interconnection Requests assigned to thesame Queue Cluster Window. Transmission Provider, may at its option, establish QueueCluster Windows for any one or more Operating Regions, in which case only thoseGenerating Facilities with Points of Interconnection within such Operating Region(s)received within the Queue Cluster Window shall be studied together using Clustering.Transmission Provider may study an Interconnection Request separately to the extentwarranted by Good Utility Practice based upon the electrical remoteness of the proposedLargeGenerating Facility. Transmission Provider may, at its option, limit the number ofInterconnection Requests Interconnection Customers may submit during a Queue ClusterWindow for the same Generating Facility.Clustering Interconnection System Impact Studies shall be conducted in such a manner toensure the efficient implementation of the applicable regional transmission expansionplan in light of the Transmission System'’s capabilities at the time of each study.The Queue Cluster Window shall have a fixed time interval based on fixed annualopening and closing dates. Any changes to the established Queue Cluster Windowinterval and opening or closing dates shall be announced with a posting on TransmissionProvider's OASIS beginning at least one hundred and eighty (180) Calendar Days inadvance of the change and continuing thereafter through the end date of the first QueueCluster Window that is to be modified.Transmission Provider may allocate the costs of Interconnection Studies carried outpursuant to Clustering, and the costs of Network Upgrades and Interconnection Facilitiesidentified as required by those Interconnection Studies, between or among theInterconnection Customers having filed the Interconnection Requests that are the subjectof the Clustering pro rata, based on the maximum MW electrical output of the GeneratingFacility (if the Interconnection Request is for a new Generating Facility) or the increasein MW electrical output of the Generating Facility (if the Interconnection Request is foran increase in the generating capacity of an existing Generating Facility) from eachInterconnection Request, notwithstanding their Queue Positions.Notwithstanding Section 11, within fifteen (15) Calendar Days of the date on which theTransmission Provider delivers the draft Interconnection Facilities Study report toInterconnection Customers whose Interconnection Requests have been studied pursuantDM_VAN/BCT0007-BCT00132/6213742.16216529.6 - 16 16-
to Clustering, each Interconnection Customer shall indicate on OASIS whether it iswilling to pay its applicable share of the good faith estimate of costs contained in theFacilities Study. Within thirty (30) Calendar Days after comments on the draftInterconnection Facilities Study report are submitted by the Interconnection Customers tothe Transmission Provider, Transmission Provider shall tender a draft SGIA, togetherwith draft appendices completed to the extent practicable, to each InterconnectionCustomer that has indicated that it is willing to pay its applicable share of the costs. Eachtendered SGIA shall be contingent on execution by each other Interconnection Customerreceiving a Service Agreement. The remaining provisions of Section 11 with respect tothe tender, negotiation and execution of SGIAs apply, except that if any one or moreSGIAs so tendered is not executed by the applicable Interconnection Customer(s) andreturned with evidence that milestones have been achieved pursuant to Section 11.3 bythe deadline for execution of the SGIA by the Interconnection Customer, theTransmission Provider shall, within fifteen (15) Calendar Days thereafter, reissue SGIAsto those Interconnection Customers that executed the previous SGIA reapportioning theInterconnection Facilities Study costs among those remaining Interconnection Customers.Each of those remaining Interconnection Customers shall have fifteen (15) CalendarDays to execute its SGIA and return it with evidence that milestones have been achievedpursuant to Section 11.3. If any one or more of those SGIAs are not executed andreturned as provided, then the Transmission Provider shall continue to reissue SGIAs asprovided for above until all issued SGIAs are executed and returned as provided, or untilthe last SGIA tendered was tendered to a single Interconnection Customer.4.3 Transferability of Queue Position.An Interconnection Customer may transfer its Queue Position to another entity only ifsuch entity acquires the specific Generating Facility identified in the InterconnectionRequest and the Point of Interconnection does not change.4.4 Modifications.Interconnection Customer shall submit to Transmission Provider, in writing,modifications to any information provided in the Interconnection Request.Interconnection Customer shall retain its Queue Position if the modifications are inaccordance with Sections 4.4.1, 4.4.24.4.2, or 4.4.5, or are determined not to be MaterialModifications pursuant to Section 4.4.3.Notwithstanding the above, during the course of the Interconnection Studies, eitherInterconnection Customer or Transmission Provider may identify changes to the plannedinterconnection that may improve the costs and benefits (including reliability) of theinterconnection, and the ability of the proposed change to accommodate theInterconnection Request. To the extent the identified changes are acceptable toTransmission Provider and Interconnection Customer, such acceptance not to beunreasonably withheld, Transmission Provider shall modify the Point of Interconnectionand/or configuration in accordance with such changes and proceed with any re-studiesnecessary to do so in accordance with Section 6.4,6.5, Section 7.6 and Section 8.58.7 asapplicable and Interconnection Customer shall retain its Queue Position.DM_VAN/BCT0007-BCT00132/6213742.16216529.6 - 17 17-
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4.2 Clustering.At <strong>Transmission</strong> Provider's option, Interconnection Requests may be studied serially or inclusters for the purpose of the Interconnection System Impact Study.using Clusteringshall be implemented on the basis of Queue Position. If <strong>Transmission</strong> Provider elects tostudy Interconnection Requests using Clustering, all Interconnection Requests receivedwithin a period not to exceed one hundred and eighty (180) Calendar Days, hereinafterreferred to as the "Queue Cluster Window", shall be studied together without regard tothe nature of the underlying Interconnection Service, whether Energy ResourceInterconnection Service or Network Resource Interconnection Service. The deadline forcompleting all Interconnection System Impact Studies for which an InterconnectionSystem Impact Study Agreement has been executed during a Queue Cluster Windowshall be in accordance with Section 7.4, for all Interconnection Requests assigned to thesame Queue Cluster Window. <strong>Transmission</strong> Provider, may at its option, establish QueueCluster Windows for any one or more Operating Regions, in which case only thoseGenerating Facilities with Points of Interconnection within such Operating Region(s)received within the Queue Cluster Window shall be studied together using Clustering.<strong>Transmission</strong> Provider may study an Interconnection Request separately to the extentwarranted by Good Utility Practice based upon the electrical remoteness of the proposedLargeGenerating Facility. <strong>Transmission</strong> Provider may, at its option, limit the number ofInterconnection Requests Interconnection Customers may submit during a Queue ClusterWindow for the same Generating Facility.Clustering Interconnection System Impact Studies shall be conducted in such a manner toensure the efficient implementation of the applicable regional transmission expansionplan in light of the <strong>Transmission</strong> System'’s capabilities at the time of each study.The Queue Cluster Window shall have a fixed time interval based on fixed annualopening and closing dates. Any changes to the established Queue Cluster Windowinterval and opening or closing dates shall be announced with a posting on <strong>Transmission</strong>Provider's OASIS beginning at least one hundred and eighty (180) Calendar Days inadvance of the change and continuing thereafter through the end date of the first QueueCluster Window that is to be modified.<strong>Transmission</strong> Provider may allocate the costs of Interconnection Studies carried outpursuant to Clustering, and the costs of Network Upgrades and Interconnection Facilitiesidentified as required by those Interconnection Studies, between or among theInterconnection Customers having filed the Interconnection Requests that are the subjectof the Clustering pro rata, based on the maximum MW electrical output of the GeneratingFacility (if the Interconnection Request is for a new Generating Facility) or the increasein MW electrical output of the Generating Facility (if the Interconnection Request is foran increase in the generating capacity of an existing Generating Facility) from eachInterconnection Request, notwithstanding their Queue Positions.Notwithstanding Section 11, within fifteen (15) Calendar Days of the date on which the<strong>Transmission</strong> Provider delivers the draft Interconnection Facilities Study report toInterconnection Customers whose Interconnection Requests have been studied pursuantDM_VAN/<strong>BC</strong>T0007-<strong>BC</strong>T00132/6213742.16216529.6 - 16 16-
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