NEW GENERATION TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROGRAM Clause Samples

NEW GENERATION TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROGRAM. A customer and BPA may jointly develop a pilot program at the individual generation project level in order to integrate new uses of technology, such as a solar project coupled with a co-located battery. The goal of the pilot is to reduce the project’s balancing reserve capacity burden placed on the Bonneville balancing authority area. In place of any normally applicable Regulation and Frequency Response, VERBS or DERBS rates, Bonneville will instead directly assign the cost of balancing reserve capacity to the pilot project customer in accordance with the following capacity rate components: (a) Regulation Reserve INC $0.264 per kilowatt-day (b) Following Reserve INC $0.256 per kilowatt-day (c) Imbalance Reserve INC $0.250 per kilowatt-day (d) DEC Balancing Reserves $0.022 per kilowatt-day These rates are applied to the balancing reserve capacity BPA determines is needed for the pilot (not the installed nameplate of the project), and shall not exceed the total cost of the normally applicable Regulation and Frequency Response, VERBS, or DERBS rates. On a monthly basis, BPA shall revisit the amount of balancing reserves required for the project based on actual operational data for that project. All other rates required for the project shall apply. A customer participating in a pilot program may still be subject to any applicable Intentional Deviation or Persistent Deviation penalties if operation of the project is not consistent with the pilot program expectations, resulting in the pilot adding to rather than reducing the Station Control Error of the project.