Parallel Generation –Non-Export Sample Clauses

Parallel Generation –Non-Export. Applicable to Customers whose DER Facility is a Qualifying Facility under PURPA that will not export energy to the Company’s Distribution System. Contracts for Interconnection where the Customer’s DER Facility is connected for Parallel Operation with the Company’s Distribution System and the Customer’s DER Facility electric output is solely for a Customer’s site use with no export of power to the Company’s Distribution System. DER Facility Interconnections with the Company’s Secondary Network Distribution System that utilize network protectors for system protection are required to be non-export Interconnections and be designed to ensure that there is no export of power at the Point of Interconnection. A non-export Interconnection is available to all Customer DER Facility technologies and sizes up to 10 MW where one of the following requirements is met: 1) A reverse power protection device is installed 2) An under-power protection device is installed 3) The DER Facility equipment has been Certified Non-Islanding and the incidental export of power will be limited by the design of the Interconnection 4) The gross nameplate rating of the generating facility will not exceed 50 percent of the minimum electrical load of the Customer’s facility over the previous 12 months. 5) The DER Facility completely offsets the facility load by being both (a) optimally sized to meet its peak demand with load following functionality on the DER controls and (b) ensuring Inadvertent Export of electric power from the DER Facility to the Distribution System occurs no more frequently than twice in any 24-hour period. Also, the Inadvertent Exports are no more than 60 seconds. For this, options 1) or 2) will also be required.