Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part C · Chapter 84 — Department of Energy
§ 7276. Regulations to require integrated resource planning
Statutory text
Regulations
Within 1 year after , the Administrator shall, by regulation, revise the Final Amended Guidelines and Acceptance Criteria for Customer Conservation and Renewable Energy Programs published in the Federal Register on (50 F.R. 33892), or any subsequent amendments thereto, to require each customer purchasing electric energy under a long-term firm power service contract with the Western Area Power Administration to implement, within 3 years after , integrated resource planning in accordance with the requirements of sections 7275 to 7276c of this title.
Certain small customers
Notwithstanding subsection (a), for customers with total annual energy sales or usage of 25 Gigawatt Hours or less which are not members of a joint action agency or a generation and transmission cooperative with power supply responsibility, the Administrator may establish different regulations and apply such regulations to customers that the Administrator finds have limited economic, managerial, and resource capability to conduct integrated resource planning. The regulations under this subsection shall require such customers to consider all reasonable opportunities to meet their future energy service requirements using demand-side techniques, new renewable resources and other programs that will provide retail customers with electricity at the lowest possible cost, and minimize, to the extent practicable, adverse environmental effects.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984
Pub. L. 98–381 title II § 202 · 98 Stat. 1333
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7276
(Pub. L. 98–381, title II, § 202, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title I, § 114, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2800.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 98–381, title II, § 202, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title I, § 114, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2800.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 202. (a) Within one year after the date of enactment of this Regulations. 42 USC 7276. Act, Western shall amend its existing regulations (46 Fed. Reg. 56140) to reflect— (1) the elements to be considered in the energy conservation programs required by this title, and (2) Western’s criteria for evaluating and approving such programs. Such amended regulations shall be promulgated only after public Public information. notice and opportunity to comment in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 551–706). 5 USC note prec. 551. (b) The following elements shall be considered by Western in evaluating energy conservation programs: (1) energy consumption efficiency improvements; (2) use of renewable energy resources in addition to hydroelectric power; (3) load management techniques; (4) cogeneration; (5) rate design improvements, including— (i) cost of service pricing; (ii) elimination of declining block rates; (iii) time of day rates; (iv) seasonal rates; and (v) interruptible rates; and (6) production efficiency improvements. (c) Where a purchaser is implementing one or more of the foregoing elements under a program responding to Federal, State, or other initiatives that apply to conservation and renewable energy development, in evaluating that purchaser’s energy conservation program submitted pursuant to this title, Western shall make due allowance for the incorporation of such elements within the energy conservation program required by this title.
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984, and not as part of the Department of Energy Organization Act which comprises this chapter.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 7276, Pub. L. 98–381, title II, § 202, , 98 Stat. 1341, related to regulations of Western Area Power Administration, including amendment of regulations after notice and comment, evaluation of energy conservation programs, and allowance by Western for incorporation of elements of such programs, prior to the general amendment of title II of Pub. L. 98–381 by section 114 of Pub. L. 102–486.
Credits
(Pub. L. 98–381, title II, § 202, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title I, § 114, , 106 Stat. 2800.)