REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on a Resolution Amending Silicon Valley Power Rate Schedule SB-1 - Standby General Service with Respect to Determination of Reservation Capacity, and Rate Schedule NM - Net Energy Metering Service with Respect to Implementation of an Aggregate Metering Option
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Deliver and Enhance High Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
Through its Electric Utility, Silicon Valley Power (SVP), the City of Santa Clara provides electric service in the City of Santa Clara using a variety of rate schedules including SVP's Standby Service Schedule (SB-1) and Net Energy Metering Service Schedule (NM) associated with customers who self-generate all of a portion of their electric needs.
Schedule SB-1
Rate Schedule SB-1 provides for standby service for customers with self-generation. When a customer uses self-generation in parallel with service from SVP, SVP's Standby Service (Schedule SB-1) is available for any planned or unplanned reduction in customer's generation output and resulting impact on SVP's grid power scheduling and management. This back-up responsibility (or standby service) means that SVP must have the infrastructure and ability to increase power deliveries in order to back-up customers with self-generation, if their own generation is not available for any reason. SB-1 is designed to recover SVP's ongoing cost of being ready to provide this standby service.
Schedule SB-1 was revised by City Council action on December 19, 2017 (Resolution #17-8485) to improve the applicability of Schedule SB-1 to a wider variety of self-generation configurations. Including cases where self-generation was less than 100% of typical customer load. Schedule SB-1 was further amended by City Council action on November 19, 2019 (Resolution #19-8782) to streamline the calculation of capacity reservation charges or amount of capacity required to standby, while achieving substantially the same amount of demand r...
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