4 CCR 723-3-3914 - Establishment of Requirements for a Qualifying Facility

(a) Within 25 days after submission of complete design information by a qualifying facility, a utility shall:

(I) establish written operations requirements for the qualifying facility so that interconnection with the qualifying facility will not cause abnormal operation of the utility's protective equipment; and

(II) inform the qualifying facility of the existing phase conductors and utility's requirements for system electrical phase sequence/rotation available to the qualifying facility and encourage the qualifying facility to use the existing phasing for the proposed interconnection. The utility shall inform the qualifying facility that any phase imbalances may affect the safety of the proposed service or neighboring customer's loads.

(b) In the event that phased loadings of interconnection cause phase imbalances, the cost of equipment to correct the imbalances shall be an interconnection cost of the qualifying facility.

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4 CCR 723-3-3914

38 CR 17, September 10, 2015, effective 9/30/2015 39 CR 06, March 25, 2016, effective 4/14/2016 39 CR 08, April 25, 2016, effective 5/15/2016 40 CR 22, November 25, 2017, effective 12/15/2017 42 CR 03, February 10, 2019, effective 3/2/2019 42 CR 07, April 10, 2019, effective 4/30/2019 42 CR 09, May 10, 2019, effective 5/30/2019 43 CR 08, April 25, 2020, effective 5/15/2020 43 CR 12, June 25, 2020, effective 7/15/2020 43 CR 20, October 25, 2020, effective 11/14/2020 44 CR 13, July 10, 2021, effective 7/30/2021 44 CR 24, December 25, 2021, effective 1/14/2022 45 CR 18, September 25, 2022, effective 10/15/2022 46 CR 02, January 25, 2023, effective 2/14/2023