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D.C. Municipal Regulations (Last Updated: September 13, 2017) |
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Title 15. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CABLE TELEVISION |
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Chapter 15-5. FUEL ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE AUDIT AND REVIEW PROGRAM |
Section 15-511. ANNUAL PROJECTIONS
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511.1The company shall submit to the Commission on February 15th of each year a forecast of fuel costs, power plant operating parameters, and its planned maintenance budget and timetable for each month of the forecast year.
511.2Forecasts shall be developed for each generating unit and for PEPCO's entire generating system of the following generating system operating performance indices:
(a)Operating availability factor;
(b)Equivalent availability factor;
(c)Capacity factor;
(d)Heat rate;
(e)Forced outage rate;
(f)Equivalent forced outage rate;
(g)Planned outage rate; and
(h)Maintenance outage rate.
511.3Forecasts shall be made of fuel prices, consumption and expenditures by fuel type and quality for each generating plant and for the total PEPCO system, and of the company's planned maintenance budget and timetable.
511.4All forecasts shall be accompanied by upper and lower limit forecast bounds (i.e., a forecast band). The range of this band shall reflect the potential variations from forecast values which may result from unanticipated but reasonable divergencies from expected performance under normal operating conditions.
511.5Prior to the development of the forecasts, PEPCO shall submit a forecast procedure explaining its preferred methodology for computing forecast values.
511.6Staff shall review this approach and the specific forecast method that the company follows. The forecasts are not to be strictly historically based; they should incorporate expected improvements in operating performance over the forecast period.