[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the Borough of Lansdale 2-18-2009 by Ord. No.
1773 (Ch. 64 of the 1972 Code). Amendments noted
where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Electric service — See Ch. 185.
A.
The Lansdale Borough Council shall be the sole retail electric regulatory
authority for the municipality and all its retail electric consumers.
B.
The Lansdale Borough Council determines it to be desirable that the
aggregation of power needs and demand response on behalf of its retail
customers to be bid directly into the organized electric and ancillary
services markets administered by the regional transmission organization
that includes the municipality (or any successor independent system
operator or regional transmission organization) be performed by the
municipality or its authorized designee.
C.
Lansdale Borough Council or its authorized designee is the sole entity
permitted to aggregate retail customers' power needs and demand response
and bid demand response on behalf of retail customers of the municipality
directly into any federally approved independent system operator's
or regional transmission organization's organized electric markets.
D.
Retail customers on Lansdale's electric system desiring to bid their
demand response into a Commission-approved independent system operator's
or regional transmission organization's organized electric markets
may do so only by participating in the program established by the
Lansdale Borough Council or its authorized designee.
E.
Lansdale Borough Council or its authorized designee is the sole entity
permitted to bid demand response on behalf of retail customers of
the municipality directly into any Commission-approved independent
system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized
markets for energy imbalance, spinning reserves, supplemental reserves,
reactive power and voltage control, or regulation and frequency response
ancillary services (or its functional equivalent in the Commission-approved
independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's
tariff).
F.
Retail customers of Lansdale's electric system desiring to bid their
demand response into a Commission-approved independent system operator's
or regional transmission organization's organized markets for energy
imbalance, spinning reserves, supplemental reserves, reactive power
and voltage control, or regulation and frequency response ancillary
services (or its functional equivalent in the Commission-approved
independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's
tariff) may do so only by participating in the program established
by the Lansdale Borough Council or its authorized designee.
G.
The Borough Manager, as General Manager of the electricity system,
is authorized to adopt any necessary regulations to implement this
chapter.
H.
The requirements for connections to the supply lines of the Borough
are established in the Borough of Lansdale Electric Service and Meter
Installation Requirements, latest edition, as amended. The customer
shall conform to the requirements established therein.
I.
Electrical service shall be required in all inhabited properties.
Failure to obtain or maintain electrical service in a property while
it is inhabited shall deem the property unfit for human habitation
and shall further render the structure as dangerous and unsafe; apartments
in multifamily structures shall, likewise, be rendered uninhabitable.
In such instances, in addition to other remedies contained in this
chapter, the Code Enforcement Officer shall comply with the provisions
of the Borough of Lansdale Code.
