As used in this Article 3, unless the context otherwise requires:
An electrical system bounded by interconnection (tie line)
metering and telemetry. It controls generation directly to maintain
its interchange schedule with other control areas and contributes
to frequency regulation of the interconnection.
The control area is at risk of having to shed firm load,
having taken or committed to take all feasible mitigating action short
of shedding firm load and firm sales.
The implementation of a plan to curtail electric service
to firm load customers for a short period of time and rotating this
curtailment of electric service through different areas within the
electric utility's service territory in a situation where the
demand has exceeded or is at significant risk of exceeding the supply
of electricity available to the electric utility. The action of an
electric utility to interrupt or curtail electric service to a customer
participating in or taking service under an interruptible or curtailable
rate is not included in this definition of a "controlled rotating
interruption of electric service."
Any person or entity engaged in the business of distributing,
transmitting, or otherwise delivering electricity, regardless of its
source, for use or consumption within the Village. This term shall
not include any person or entity that delivers electricity to fewer
than 50 customers within the Village.
The portions of the emergency load conservation procedures,
which immediately precede and include the controlled rotating interruption
of electrical service to firm load customers within the Village. The
emergency energy plan shall include the following steps:
A planned course of action developed by an electric utility
company to be implemented in emergency situations when the demand
for electricity exceeds, or is at significant risk of exceeding, the
supply of electricity available to the electric utility.
(A)
Every electric utility company must have adopted an emergency energy
plan no later than 30 days after the effective date of this Article
3, or within 30 days after becoming an electric utility company, whichever
is later. Every such electric utility company shall submit to the
Village President and Village Manager an emergency energy plan adopted
by the company no later than 30 days after the effective date of this
Article 3, or within 24 hours of the time the plan is adopted, whichever
is later. The electric utility company shall be required to examine
and update as needed its emergency energy plan at least annually.
The electric utility company shall notify the foregoing public officials,
in writing, of any material revisions to its plan and the rationale
for said revisions within five business days after the time said revisions
are made.
(B)
The emergency energy plan shall include, at a minimum, information
detailing:
(1)
Circumstances that would require the implementation of the emergency
energy plan;
(2)
Stages of the emergency energy plan;
(3)
The approximate geographic limits of each outage area provided
for in the emergency energy plan;
(4)
The approximate number of customers within each outage area
provided for in the emergency energy plan;
(5)
The police facilities, fire stations, hospitals, nursing homes,
schools, day-care centers, senior citizen centers, community health
centers, dialysis centers, community mental health centers, correctional
facilities, stormwater and wastewater treatment or pumping facilities,
and water-pumping stations that have been identified by the Village
and persons on life-support systems that are known to the company,
and that could be affected by controlled rotating interruptions of
electric service under the emergency energy plan; and
(6)
The anticipated sequence and duration of intentional interruptions
of electric service to each outage area under the emergency energy
plan.
(A)
Upon submittal of the emergency energy plan to the Village, the Village shall review the emergency energy plan in order to determine if the emergency energy plan is complete and to assure appropriate coordination with public health and safety agencies. The Village may reject the emergency energy plan if it does not contain all the information required under Section 13-3-2(B) of this Code, in which case the Village shall notify the electric utility company in writing of said rejection and the reasons therefor. The electric utility company shall thereafter submit a complete emergency energy plan to the Village no later than 30 days after such notice is sent by the Village.
(B)
The Village and the electric utility shall work cooperatively to:
(1)
Identify customers and facilities for which a controlled rotating
interruption of electric service would require heightened response
by Village public health and safety agencies;
(2)
Mitigate the potential impact of the plan on public health and
safety; and
(3)
Mitigate the potential impact of the plan on the duties of the
Village's public health and safety agencies.
(A)
Whenever an electric utility company determines that it may be necessary
to implement a controlled rotating interruption of electrical service
due to the demand for electricity exceeding, or being at significant
risk of exceeding, the supply of electricity available to the electric
utility company, the electric utility company shall do the following:
(1)
Take appropriate action in preparation for implementing a controlled
rotating interruption of electric service and notify the appropriate
electric utility company personnel; and
(2)
Notify the Village President and the Village Manager that the
electric utility company will be implementing its emergency energy
plan. The notification shall be made pursuant to a notification procedure
approved by the Village President and the Village Manager after consultation
with the Village President and the Village Manager. The Village President
and the Village Manager may waive the notice requirement to accommodate
exigent circumstances.
(B)
Subsequent to providing the notice as required above, an electric
utility company shall reasonably and separately advise the designated
Village officials when it implements each of the steps of the emergency
energy plan. Such steps shall include the following:
(C)
The electric utility company shall give a separate notice to the
Village President and the Village Manager immediately upon the determination
that there will be a controlled rotating interruption of electric
service pursuant to the emergency energy plan. The notification shall
include the areas to be interrupted; the sequence and estimated duration
of the service outage for each area; and the affected feeders and
number of affected customers in each area. Whenever practical, the
notification shall be made at least two hours prior to the time of
the outages, and in no case shall the notification be made less than
30 minutes prior to the outages, if the company is aware that controlled
rotating interruptions may be required.
Any electric utility company that knowingly violates this Article
3 or any rules promulgated thereunder shall be subject to a fine in
the amount set forth in the Annual Fee Resolution for each offense.
Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate and
distinct offense.
The Village may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction
for an injunction or order to compel the other party to comply with
the provisions of this Article 3.
Nothing in this Article 3 shall be construed to preclude or
interfere with the implementation by an electric utility company of
measures necessary to assure the provision of adequate, efficient,
reliable and environmentally safe service, as required by the Illinois
Public Utilities Act, 220 ILCS 5/1-101 et seq. Nothing set forth in
this Article 3 shall be deemed to modify the terms of any existing
franchise agreement or franchise ordinance otherwise applicable to
any electric utility company, or to excuse any performance required
by such agreement or ordinance, or to limit any authority that may
be exercised pursuant to such agreement or ordinance, or to limit
any remedy that may be available under such agreement or ordinance.
