933.123 RETAIL DEMAND RESPONSE.
(a) The City or its authorized designees shall be permitted to bid demand response on behalf of retail electric customers of the City directly into any independent system operator’s or regional transmission organization’s organized electric markets, as approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”).
(b) The Director of Public Service is authorized to approve or disapprove retail electric customers’ request to enroll with a third-party curtailment service provider and/or PJM Interconnection, LLC’s (“PJM”) for PJM’s Capacity Only Option demand response program. If approved by the Director of Public Service, the third-party curtailment service provider and/or PJM would be an authorized designee of the City.
(c) Retail electric customers on the City's electric system desiring to bid their demand response into a FERC-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized electric markets may do so only by participating in the Demand Response program established by the City or its authorized designee.
(d) The City or its authorized designees is permitted to bid demand response on behalf of retail customers of the City directly into any FERC-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized markets for energy imbalance, spinning reserves, supplemental reserves, reactive power and voltage control, or regulation and frequency response ancillary services (or its functional equivalent in the FERC-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's tariff).
(e) Retail customers of the City's electric system desiring to bid their demand response into a FERC-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized markets for energy imbalance, spinning reserves, supplemental reserves, reactive power and voltage control, or regulation and frequency response ancillary services (or its functional equivalent in the FERC-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's tariff) may do so only by participating in the program established by the Municipality or its authorized designee.
(f) The Director of Public Service is authorized to enter into agreements with retail electric customers of the City's Electric System for the purpose of bidding such customers' load into Demand Response markets, either individually or on an aggregate basis. The Director is also authorized to promulgate any regulations necessary to implement this Section.
(Ord. 32-2017. Passed 4-24-17.)