Common use of DIRECT ASSIGNMENT CHARGES Clause in Contracts

DIRECT ASSIGNMENT CHARGES. BPA shall directly assign to the customer the cost of incremental balancing reserve capacity purchases that are necessary to provide Dispatchable Energy Resource Balancing Service to the customer if: a. the customer elected to self-supply but is unable to self-supply the Dispatchable Energy Resource Balancing Service; or b. a customer has a projected generator interconnection date after FY 20197 but chooses to interconnect during the FY 20186-20197 rate period; c. a customer operating in another Balancing Authority Area chooses to dynamically transfer into the BPA Balancing Authority Area during the FY 20186-20197 rate period; or d. the customer elected to dynamically transfer its resource out of BPA’s Balancing Authority Area but the resource remains in the BPA Balancing Authority Area after the date specified in the customer election. the customer elected to dynamically transfer its resource out of BPA’s balancing authority area, but chooses to keep its resource in the BPA balancing authority area. When determining the balancing reserve capacity requirement for a resource subject to direct assignment charges, BPA will round the incremental increase down to the nearest whole megawatt. Customers that are subject to direct assignment charges will be billed for all costs incurred above $0.3050.29 per kilowatt-day for any incremental balancing reserve capacity acquisitions. Customers billed for direct assignment charges will also be billed at the DERBS rates in section 1.