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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982-043 Contract - Electric ServiceContract For Electric Service Experimental Residential Partial Requirements Service With Generator THIS AGREEMENT, dated this day of , 19 by and between the CITY OF ASHLAND, OREGON, a municipal corporation, ("City") and ("Customer"). W I TNE S S E T H: WHEREAS, Customer has notified City that he or she intends to install or has installed facilities on his or her property for the purpose of using as a source of power for the generation of electric energy for a portion of his or her own residential uses; and WHEREAS, the residential service schedule in City's rate ordinance provides only for service without any other source of electric supply; and WHEREAS, City pursuant to P.U.C. orders 82-514 and 82-515, and consistent with its policy of encouraging innovation in the use of renewable resources, is willing to waive the aforesaid limiting provision, and is willing to furnish partial requirements residential service to Customer's residence with generating facilities which meet the safety requirements of duly constituted authorities; NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto, each in consideration of the agreements of the other, agree as follows: 1. City shall provide facilities for furnishing volt, phase, 60 Hertz electric service for a connected residential load of approximately kilowatts described as follows: Such electric service shall be furnished at one point of delivery and metering on Customer's premises. 2. Customer shall receive and pay for service furnished hereunder in accordance with residential schedule and effective super- seding schedules of the City's rate ordinance now or hereafter adopted by the City Council. 3. An interconnection shall be provided by the Customer on the source side of the residential meter to meter the total output of the generation facilities described as follows: 4. City shall receive and pay for all separately metered kilowatt hours of customer generation in accordance with experimental Schedule 5 and effective superseding schedules of City's rate ordinance as hereafter adopted by the City Council. 5. Customer agrees to protect, indemnify and hold harmless the City of Ashland, its Mayor and City Council, officers, employees, agents, and their representatives against and from any and all loss, claims, actions, or suits, including costs and attorneys' fees, both at trial and on appeal, for or on account of injury, bodily or otherwise, to or death of any persons, or damage to or destruction of property belonging to the City or others, resulting from, or arising out of, any operations hereunder, excepting only such injury or death as may be caused solely by the fault or negligence of the City, its Mayor and City Council, officers, employees or agents. 6. Customer shall furnish and install a safety disconnect switch to be approved by the City on the Customer's side of the metering which will fully disconnect the generator circuit from City's electric service. The disconnect switch shall be located adjacent to City's meters and shall be of the visible break type in a metal enclosure which can be secured by a City padlock. City shall have the right to disconnect Customer's generating facility from City's supply at the disconnect switch when necessary to maintain safe electrical operating conditions if in the sole judgement of City, Customer's generating equipment at any time adversely affects City's operation of its electrical system or the quality of City's service to other Customers, or if Customer has failed to maintain his generating facilities in satisfactory operating condition. The disconnect switch shall be accessible at all times to City personnel. 7. Customer shall provide a meter base and all necessary wiring to measure the total generation independently from the Customer's load. For three-phase generation the Customer will also provide a meter base for a KVAR meter. Customer shall provide all necessary wiring to locate the generation metering adjacent to the residential meter. Customer shall not connect or permit connection of utilization loads to the generation circuit. -2- 8. Customer shall furnish, install, operate and maintain in good order and repair, and without cost to City, all facilities required for the safe operation of Customer's generation in parallel with City's system. These facilities shall include, but not be limited to, equipment necessary to automatically establish and maintain synchronism with City's electric supply, and circuit breaker protection which will automatically disconnect Customer's generating equipment from City's supply in the event of overload or of an outage of City's supply. These facilities should for safety be specified by a publicly licensed electrical engineer or licensed electrician and should be approved for the purpose by a nationally recognized testing laboratory or by a public authority having jurisdiction. The generator system output to City lines must at all times operate with voltage and current distortion not to exceed 10%. 9. Excepting only City-owned metering equipment, all facilities on Customer side of the point of delivery, including the required generator system disconnect switch and generator synchronizing facilities, shall be provided, installed and maintained in satisfactory operating condition by Customer, and shall remain the property and responsibility of Customer. City shall bear no liability for Customer's equipment or for consequences of its operation or misoperation. For purposes of recording the energy flows of Customer generation and load, City may at its expense, install and operate load research recorders. 10. Customer's generator and associated interconnection equipment shall meet the requirements of and be inspected and approved by state electrical inspector and any other public authority having jurisdiction as a condition of interconnection with City service. 11. Authorized City employees shall have the right to enter upon Customer's property for the purpose of operating or inspecting the disconnect and metering and making additional tests concerning output and operation and the accuracy of its meters, but such inspections or any City review, approval, test, or authorization to connect shall not relieve Customer from his obligation to install and maintain the facilities in satisfac- tory operating condition. 12. This agreement and all of the terms and provisions hereof shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto, save that no assignment hereof shall be -3- 13. effective without the written consent of City being first obtained. The furnishing and taking of service hereunder shall be subject to the rates, rules and regulations contained in City's Municipal Code. The rates, terms and provisions hereof are and shall be subject at all times to the regulatory authority of the City Council and are subject to change from time to time by superseding schedules adopted by the City Council. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, City and Customer have caused this agreement to be executed in duplicate as of the day and year first above written. CUSTOMER CITY OF ASHLAND, OREGON By: Director of Electric Utilities Approved: ~ity Administrator Approved as to form: ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL date: ~ ~ -4- (- S, ~:),~ iCE' Co~N~CT~aN DO NOT I I J CU %Tot"l ~' ~ ! \ \ Co~ouCI'OR5