Examples of Reference Resource in a sentence
The Reference Resource shall be the Resource within that group with the highest ERCOT approved Verifiable O&M Costs.
QSEs choosing to submit Variable O&M costs above LSL must submit O&M costs (including the costs of emission credits) of the PPA for operations above LSL but these are capped at the average cost of the Reference Resource.
The selection of the Reference Resource used to determine O&M cost caps shall be made from a group of comparable specific Resources.
If the Verifiable Cost of a Reference Resource for a PPA changes, the cap for that PPA may also change, on a monthly basis.
As before, if the costs of the PPA units are more than the Cap, the fuel and O&M components for the PPA Resource are set equal to the same components in the Reference Resource (Resource 2).
The PPA O&M cap will be set equal to the O&M costs of the Reference Resource for the entire PPA Resource IHR range.
The selection of the Reference Resource for operations above LSL will be done on the basis of the highest simple average ERCOT approved Verifiable O&M Costs, above LSL, for all comparable Resources without a PPA, for that verifiable cost type.
Thus, when no Reference Resource is available, zero O&M cost will be added to the fuel cost at LSL.
In cases where the PPA submitted costs are less than those of the Reference Resource, the verifiable costs will be treated as O&M only and will not have a fuel component.Example 2: PPAs indicating both Fuel and O&M costsExample 2 below demonstrates the calculation of the PPA Cap when the PPA verifiable cost filing by the QSE representing the PPA includes fuel and O&M costs stated separately.
The selection of the Reference Resource for each of the four VC types (Cold, Hot, Intermediate Startup and Operation at LSL) will be done on the basis of the highest ERCOT approved Verifiable O&M Costs for a comparable non-PPA Resource for that VC type.