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TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
x
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RATE
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x
Effective January 1, 2007
(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January I, 2003)
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1.0
DESCRIPTION:
A special wholesale rate offered to Tri-State Members to promote and attract
growth in the Tri-State service area.
2.0
PURPOSE:
To assist in safeguarding the territorial integrity of Tri-State's Members,
improve resource utilization, enhance rate stability, and promote growth.
3.0
AVAILABILITY:
This rate schedule shall be available to each Tri-State Member for use in
facilitating growth, promoting strategic load expansion, and counteracting
loss ofload due to loss of service territory.
4.0
ELI(;I1JILITY:
4.1
Any Member's single-metered commercial, industrial or wholesale
load whose non-coincident peak demand is at least 150 kW in size and
which is not served by any Tri-State Member at the time the Member
enters into a contract with the customer as provided herein. Eligibility
shall be confirmed by a Certificate of Eligibility completed by the
Member Manager and approved by Tri-State prior to execution of the
contract between the Member and the customer.
otice No. 11
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Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
x
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
ECONONOCDEVELOPMffiNTRATE
4.2
5.0
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(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January 1, 2003)
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All loads to be served under this Rate Schedule must be approved by X
the Tri-State Board of Directors.
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CHARGE:
5.1
Charge:
Loads which are approved by Tri-State to receive service under this
tariff will be billed monthly using a mills per kilowatt-hour charge.
This charge will be negotiated between Tri-State and the Member and
between the Member and the Customer and set forth in a contract
between Tri-State and the Member.
5.2
6.0
Effective January 1,2007
Billing Adjustment:
Billings under this Rate Schedule NM-SE-3 may be increased by an
amount equal to any new or any increase in existing taxes, fees or
other charges incurred by Tri-State and levied, assessed or required by
any governmental authority on the service rendered.
CONDITIONS:
The rate granted pursuant to this Rate Schedule NM-SE-3 shall be supported
by a Contract, between Tri-State and the Member, and a contract between the
Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
x
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RATE
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Member and the customer, which shall have a term of no less than three (3)
years, nor more than ten (10) years. The contract between the Member and
the customer and any amendment or modification thereto shall be reviewed
by Tri-State for eligibility and compliance with the terms and conditions
contained in the Member's contract(s) with Tri-State and this Rate Schedule
NM-SE-3 prior to execution of the contract between the Member and the
Customer. New Mexico Members have been furnished a confidential
schedule SE-3 which sets forth specific details and conditions which are
applicable to service under this schedule NM-SE-3 and which shall control in
case of conflict herewith.
6.1
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Effective January 1, 2007
(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January 1, 2003)
Cost Recovery:
The Member shall not add on more than ten percent (10%) of the
effective rate charged by Tri-State under this Rate Schedule NM-SE-3.
However, the Member's rate to the customer may include, where
appropriate, a capital recovery factor to compensate the Member for
facilities installed in order to serve the load subject to this Rate
Schedule NM-SE-3. Such capital recovery factor shall be added only
with the prior approval of Tri-State as to amount and duration.
Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
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THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
X
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RATE
Effective January 1,2007
x
(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January 1,2003)
X
Metering/Docnmentation:
Member shall install, or cause to be installed, a single metering and
recording device, or equivalent, at the Point(s) of Delivery to each
customer where Member is providing service under this Rate
Schedule. Such metering and recording device(s) shall be of a type
and accuracy acceptable to Tri-State. Such metering and recording
device(s) shall: (a) be capable of measuring and registering energy
delivered; (b) be capable of measuring and recording thirty (30)
minute integrated demand for each thirty (30) minute time interval;
and (c) shall have sufficient recording capability or memory to store at
least thirty-six (36) days of thirty (30) minute integrated demand data.
Data from such metering and recording device(s) shall be provided to
Tri-State in a format that can be readily imported into Tri-State's MV90 meter data acquisition system. If telephone lines or other
acceptable communications are reasonably available and economically
feasible, such metering and recording device(s) shall be capable of
being interrogated remotely for data acquisition. Such metering and
recording device(s) shall be read no less frequently than once a month.
Metering data shall be provided to Tri-State monthly. Upon request,
copies of any bills which the Member has sent to the customer for any
month shall be provided to Tri-State.
Advice Notice No. 11
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. Shafer
Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
x
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RATE
Effective January 1,2007
x
(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January 1, 2003)
6.3
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6.4
Auditable:
Tri-State shall have the right, upon reasonable notice to the Member
to: (a) inspect facilities for metering of and interconnection with the
customer; (b) review all billing and metering records for the customer;
and (c) test the meter(s) at Tri-State's expense.
Duration:
The Economic Development Rate Schedule NM-SE-3 is guaranteed
through December 31, 2007 and will continue thereafter until a new X
tariff is adopted. Once a contract has been executed under this Rate
Schedule NM-SE-3, that contract shall define the rate for that load for
the entire term of the contract.
6.5
Non-Performance:
6.5.1 In order to maintain eligibility for the rate level granted
pursuant to this Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, the customer's
monthly metered non-coincident peak demand ofthe load must
equal or exceed 150 kW:
Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
x
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RATE
Effective January 1,2007
x
(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January 1, 2003)
X
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Once during the first twelve (12) months of operation and
Nine (9) months of each twelve (12) month period
thereafter
The qualifying load will become ineligible for the rate level
granted pursuant to this Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, when it is
determined that the customer does not comply with the above
requirements.
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6.5.2
6.6
When this Rate Schedule NM-SE-3 is applicable only to the
customer's new/additional load the customer's twenty-four
(24) month average kW usage is to be excluded in determining
the non-coincident peak demand eligibility requirements in
paragraph 6.4.1.
Dual Service:
This Rate Schedule NM-SE-3 shall be applicable only to a load, or
portion thereof, not currently being served by a Tri-State Member.
Where a customer currently receives service from a Tri-State Member,
that customer's loads currently being served are excluded. Such
exclusion shall be deemed, each month, to be equal to the average
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Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
x
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
ECONONnC DEVELOPMENT RATE
Effective January 1,2007
x
(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January 1, 2003)
X
monthly kilowatt-hour and kilowatt sales to said customer over the
twenty-four (24) months prior to the addition of the new load and
agreed to in the contract for this load, deemed the Customer Base
Load (CBL).
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7.0
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Other:
New Mexico Members have been furnished a confidential schedule
SE-3 which sets forth specific details and conditions which are
applicable to service under this schedule NM-SE-3, and which shall
control in case of conflict herewith.
ADJUSTMENTS
7.1
Adjustment for Character and Conditions of Service:
If the delivery of that portion of service purchased by Tri-State from
the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) is made over the
facilities of a third party and the costs for that transmission were borne
by the Member prior to the effective date of this Rate Schedule, then
the cost of such transmission service as applicable to deliveries of
WAPA power shall continue to be borne by the Member.
Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
x
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RATE
Effective January 1,2007
(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January 1, 2003)
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7.2
Adjustments for Transformer Losses:
Transfonner losses shall be detennined pursuant to Board of Directors
Policy 109.
7.3
Adjustments for Transmission Losses:
If metering is remote from the Point of Delivery, appropriate increases
to the demand and energy readings will be agreed upon between the
Member and Tri-State.
7.4
Adjustments for Power Factor:
None. The Member will nonnally be required to maintain a power
factor at the Point of Delivery of between ninety-five percent (95%)
lagging and ninety-five percent (95%) leading.
DEFINITIONS:
8.1
Point of Delivery:
A point at which Tri-State is obligated to deliver electric power and
energy to a Member. Each Point of Delivery shall be as specified in
Schedule B of Tri-State's Contract for Electric Service with a
Member.
. . Shafer
Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
x
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RATE
Effective January 1, 2007
x
(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January \,2003)
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8.3
Tri-State Peak PeriodlMember Coincident Peak (TPPIMCP)
Billing Demand:
The Member's highest thirty (30) minute integrated total demand
measured in each monthly billing period during the Tri-State Summer
Peak Period or the Winter Peak Periods. For Members receiving
service at more than one Point of Delivery, the demand shall be the
maximum coincident peak demand for all of the Member's Points of
Delivery, the same as if the service were provided to the Member at
one Point of Delivery.
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Total Variable Cost of Supplying Power:
Tri-State's total variable cost of supplying power is the greater of: (a)
total fuel cost expenses (coal, natural gas, and fuel oil) plus other
variable operation and maintenance expenses associated with power
production or, (b) total short-term market purchase expenses
excluding firm power purchases from Western Area Power
Administration and Basin Electric; both stated in mills per kilowatt
hour.
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Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
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9.0
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
x
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RATE
Effective January 1, 2007
x
(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January 1, 2003)
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8.4
Tri-State Summer Peak Period:
The summer peak period is from 7:00 AM through 10:00 PM (the
billing 'l2 hour period ending 7:30 AM through the billing 'l2 hour
period ending at 10:00 PM) daily during the months of April through
September.
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8.S
Tri-State Winter Peak Periods:
The winter peak periods are from 5:30 AM through 12:00 PM (the
billing Y2 hour period ending 6:00 AM through the· billing 'l2 hour
period ending at 12:00 PM) and from 4:30 PM through 10:30 PM (the
billing 'l2 hour period ending 5:00 PM through the billing 'l2 hour
ending at 10:30 PM) daily during the months of October through
March.
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BILLING MECHANISM:
9.1
If for any qualifying load, the monthly demand does not achieve the
levels specified in Section 6.4, the Member's demand for the
customer's load shall be deemed to be zero and the Member shall be
billed at Tri-State's Class A rate.
Advice Notice No. 11
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Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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RATE SCHEDULE
TRI-STATE
NM-SE-3
Generation and Transmission
Association, Inc.
x
THIRD REVISED RATE SCHEDULE NM-SE-3
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RATE
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Effective January 1, 2007
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(Superseding Second Revised Rate Schedule NM-SE-3, Effective January 1,2003)
X
The customer's contribution to the Member's demand, relative to the
load receiving Rate Schedule NM-SE-3 billing, at the time of
TPP/MCP will be subtracted, without losses, from the Member's X
TPP/MCP Billing Demand.
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EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT:
A load which qualifies for this rate shall not qualify for any other special rate,
energy efficiency credit or discount from Tri-State while this rate is in effect.
Advice Notice No. 11
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Executive Vice President and
General Manager
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