Initial Electric Schedule for Green District Pilot Tariff (GDPT)
APPLICABILITY: The Pilot Green District Participation Tariff (GDPT) is available only to Lancaster Energy (LE) customers that have executed the LE Green District Participation Agreement (GDPA), and that have installed one or more eligible distributed energy resource (DER), with remote monitoring and dispatchable direct load control capabilities, behind the customer’s utility electric meter, as verified by LE. Customers that participate in LE’s Green District Pilot Program (GDPP) can reduce annual electricity costs, enhance resiliency, support local grid health and decarbonization efforts, help the greater LE community keep energy costs low and stable, support the advancement of innovative energy technology and value-based customer programming, while also earning significant monthly bill credits for participation in this pilot tariff.
SERVICE AREA: This schedule is available to LE customers within the City of Lancaster.
SUBSCRIPTION LIMIT: Subscription to this schedule is limited to 50 customers. Customers agree to participate in the program for a two-year term.
ELIGIBILITY: This optional schedule is available to LE customers that meet the conditions detailed below.
To be eligible for the GDPT, a customer must meet and maintain the following requirements:
1. Customers must have an active LE Commercial or Industrial account with a Lancaster service address, that is in good standing.
2. The customer account may not be enrolled in another utility or third-party demand response programs or other behind-the-meter DER aggregations (e.g., Southern California Edison’s Automated Demand Response, Critical Peak Pricing, Capacity Bidding programs, as well as private third-party demand response aggregations). Accounts that are currently enrolled in a utility or other third-party demand response program or aggregation must disenroll in the third-party program prior to enrolling in the Green District Pilot Program.
Existing enrollment in any third-party demand response program or aggregation will be confirmed using the Customer Information Service Request (CISR) Form.
3. Customers participating in the Green District Pilot Program must have installed an eligible DER (using an LE- authorized contractor) that facilitates monitoring and dispatchability by LE, pursuant to this tariff.
4. Customer DER installations must be compliant with the rules, stipulations, and restrictions of all manufacturer warranties and state and local codes and regulations, including applicable interconnection requirements. By enrolling in the Pilot, customers warrant that they have all necessary authorizations and authority to enroll, and have provided any necessary notices to property owners, managers, or other stakeholders.
5. In order to participate in the GDPP, customers must be enrolled in one of the following LE rate schedules:
TOU-GS-3-B; TOU-GS-3-B-PRI; TOU-GS-3-D; TOU-GS-3-D-PRI; TOU-GS-3-E; TOU-GS-3-R; TOU-GS- 3-R-PRI; TOU-8-B-PRI; TOU-8-S-B-PRI; TOU-8-B-SEC; TOU-8-B-SUB; TOU-8-PRI-D; TOU-8-S-D-PRI; TOU-8-SECI-D; TOU-8-E-PRI; TOU-8-SEC-E; TOU-8-R-PRI; TOU-8-R-SEC; TOU-EV-7-E; TOU-EV-8; TOU-EV-9-PRI
Other rate approved rate schedules, as determined by LE, will be noted at https://lancasterenergy.com/billing- rates/
6. Customers who change onto an ineligible rate schedule will be removed from the GDPP and GDPT, and all associated monthly bill credits will be discontinued.
7. Customers must have an installed revenue grade meter, such as an AMI Meter (aka- “Smart Meter”), MV-90 Meter, or equivalent load meter capable of providing 15-minute interval data.
8. Customers must provide any information reasonably requested by LE or its authorized designees that is necessary for LE to administer this GDPT, such as specifications for pre-existing DER installations.
9. If a participating customer opts-out of LE service, the customer will be immediately removed from the GDPP and GDPT on the effective date of the optout and will be ineligible for further monthly bill credits associated with participation in the Pilot, as well as any applicable Program Year True-Up Payment, as defined below.
10. All customers taking service under the GDPT must have their DER located behind the utility electric meter and the enrolled DERs must be fully operational for as long as they remain on the GDPT. If the customer anticipates that the DER will become non-operational for any reason for a period longer than 30-days, the customer must notify LE at least 30-days prior to the start of the period of non-operation and provide LE with the expected start and end dates of the non-operation.
a. In such instances, and subject to LE’s verification and approval, LE may suspend bill credits for up to 90-days. If the DER becomes non-operational for longer than 30-days, and the customer has not received approval for a temporary suspension of the bill credits, the customer may be removed from this GDPT and the bill credits will be discontinued immediately. b. If a DER unexpectedly becomes unresponsive, the customer may receive a notice via email from LE or an LE-authorized designee alerting them to the malfunction. Notified customers will have 30 days from the date of their notice to reconnect the unresponsive DER before LE may disenroll the customer from the Pilot and terminate future bill credits.
11.Customers participating in the Pilot and who have completed a GDPA, agree to allow LE and its authorized designees to operate the applicable DER(s) consistent with this tariff and the Pilot rules and guidelines contained in the GDPA. A participating customer shall allow LE to operate the DER at LE’s discretion, subject to the following limitations:
a. LE may, at its discretion, dispatch the DERs (i.e., charge, discharge, load shift, load shed, load shape, load shimmy, and/or otherwise affect asset behavior), no more than recommended by the applicable DER vendor and/or manufacturer’s warranty, except as outlined in the Special Conditions a and b below. b. LE and partners intend to program the DERs to shift customer load to non-peak hours to reduce cost and reliance on fossil fuel, except as described in Special Condition a below. c. If connectivity to LE’s VPP is lost (including due to unplanned outages, emergencies, or other instance), DERs will be preprogrammed to go into an autonomous, self-operating mode until the situation is resolved and connectivity is resumed; see Special Conditions a, b, and c below.
16. LE reserves the right to withhold incentives for any participating customers determined to be violating the rules of the Pilot and/or the terms and conditions of the governing GDPA.
17. Customers may elect to disenroll from the Pilot and stop participation in GDPT at any time by contacting LE at:
[email protected]. All applicable terms and conditions of the governing GDPA will apply to any withdrawal. Termination of participation in GDPT, and the credits for participation, will be effective at the end of the customer’s current billing cycle.
18. All customers participating in the Green District Pilot may elect to continue service under the GDPT upon expiration of their existing GDPA, through execution of a new GDPA.
Special Conditions for Customers Participating in the Pilot:
a)Planned Grid Outages (i.e., Public Safety Power Shutoffs). In the event that SCE calls a pending grid outage (such as a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) event) in the vicinity of a customer with a participating energy storage system (ESS), LE will attempt to charge the participating ESS that are expected to be impacted by the outage to full capacity in advance of the PSPS event. If necessary, LE may charge the ESS to full capacity during any time of day, including “peak” periods, to maximize resiliency benefits for customers. LE will not utilize the ESS or other participating DERs affected by the planned grid outage during the outage event. Once the grid outage event has been resolved, and power has been restored, LE will resume its normal dispatching of all DERs. b)Unplanned Grid Outages. LE will program the participating DERs to operate independently in the event of an unplanned outage of the electric grid. If the DER is an ESS, it will be charged using on-site generation resources (if available), and only discharged to provide power for on-site usage. Once grid power has been restored, LE will resume its normal dispatching of the DER. c)Loss of Connectivity. It is the customer’s responsibility to ensure continued connectivity of the DERs to the LE VPP. If LE loses connectivity to a DER, such as due to interruption of internet or cellular connection, the DER will revert to autonomous control until connectivity is restored.
RATES AND INCENTIVES:
Rate Schedule: All usage billed under this schedule will be in accordance with the customer’s otherwise-applicable LE rate schedule.
Monthly Bill Credits: In addition, customers served under this schedule will receive a performance payment in the form of a monthly bill credit. The monthly bill credit amount will be determined as follows:
Commercial or Industrial LE Green District Participant
Commercial and Industrial customers are paid a Commercial Monthly Advanced Payment (CMAP) in the form of a bill credit as well as an annual performance payment of $0.11 per kWh of measured load flexibility shift that is delivered to LE’s VPP annually. The monthly bill credit amount will be based on the CMAP Load Shift Calculation methodology, and will be subject to the maximum credit amount. The CMAP amount will be calculated for each Program Year (a Program Year is equal to a calendar year - January 1st through December 31st) in which a customer is enrolled in the Green District Pilot.
At the end of each Program Year that a customer is enrolled in the Green District Pilot, if the customer has generated more credit during the Program Year than has been paid to the customer through their CMAP for that Program Year, the customer is eligible to receive the balance owed, which is referred to as the annual Program Year True-Up Payment. The Program Year True-Up Payment will be paid out as an additional bill credit prior to March 31st of the following Program Year. The calculation, as detailed below, is based on the total kWh of flexible load delivered to LE’s VPP, and is determined annually using LE’s adopted Measurement and Verification (M&V) method and independently validated through third-party audit (as detailed in the GDPA).
CMAP Load Shift Calculation:
A.First program year. In the First Program Year that the customer enrolls in the Pilot, LE and/or LE Authorized Designee will provide an Estimated Annual kWh of Load Shift for the proposed installations. Customer will receive a monthly bill credit valued at 33% of the Estimated Annual kWh Shift multiplied by $0.11, then divided by 12, subject to the maximum bill credit listed below.
B.Second program year. In the Second Program Year, the previous Program Year’s actual verified kWh of Load Shift, as validated annually through LE’s M&V method, will be used to set the Delivered kWh of Load Shift Amount. Customer will receive a monthly bill credit valued at 50% of the DKRA multiplied by $0.11, then divided by 12, subject to the maximum bill credit listed below.
The maximum CMAP bill credit for an eligible commercial customer to receive is $500.00. The maximum CMAP bill credit for an eligible industrial customer to receive is $1000.00.