Criteria for Sector Membership Sample Clauses

Criteria for Sector Membership. The Sectors for each Principal Committee, the criteria for eligibility for membership in each Sector and the minimum requirement that a NEPOOL Participant must meet as a member of a Sector in order to appoint an individual voting member of the Sector and the Principal Committees are as follows: (a) a Generation Sector, which a NEPOOL Participant shall be eligible to join if (i) it (A) owns or leases with rights equivalent to ownership facilities for the generation of electric energy that are located within the New England Control Area which are currently in operation, or (B) has proposed generation for operation within the New England Control Area either which has received approval under Sections 18.4 and/or 18.5 of the First Restated NEPOOL Agreement between July 1, 2002 and the Effective Date or received approval on or after the Effective Date under Sections I.3.9 and/or I.3.10 of the Tariff or for which completed environmental air or environmental siting applications have been filed or permits exist, and (ii) it is not a Publicly Owned Entity. Purchasing all or a portion of the output of a generation facility shall not be sufficient to qualify a NEPOOL Participant to join the Generation Sector. A NEPOOL Participant which joins the Generation Sector shall be entitled but not required to designate an individual voting member of each Principal Committee, and an alternate to the member, if its operating or proposed generation facilities in the New England Control Area have or will have, when placed in operation, an aggregate Governance Rating of at least 15 MW. A NEPOOL Participant which joins the Generation Sector but elects not to or is not eligible to designate an individual voting member, shall be represented by a group voting member and an alternate to that member for each Principal Committee (collectively, the “Generation Group Member”). The Generation Group Member shall be appointed by a majority of the NEPOOL Participants in the Generation Sector electing or required to be represented by that member. The Generation Group Member shall have the same percentage of the Sector vote as the individual voting members designated by other NEPOOL Participants in the Generation Sector which meet the 15 MW threshold and designate an individual voting member. (b) a Transmission Sector, which a NEPOOL Participant shall be eligible to join if it is a Governance Transmission Owner and is not a Publicly Owned Entity. Taking transmission service shall not be sufficien...