Sec.16a-49-2. Conservation and load management plan filing requirements for gas public service companies

(a) Consistent with the filing date required in Section 16-32f of the Connecticut General Statutes, as may be amended from time to time, each gas public service company shall file with the Department a comprehensive conservation and load management plan including but not limited to the following information:

(1) A forecast of gas loads and resources including but not limited to conservation and load management measures, supply contract terms, line extension and interconnections. The report shall describe the facilities and supply resources that are projected to be required to meet gas demand during the forecast period. This information may incorporate and must be consistent with the ten year report filed with the Department pursuant to Section 16-32f of the Connecticut General Statutes;

(2) A report of the status of all gas conservation and load management programs for which the company has made commitments for capital investments within the next ten years from the date of the forecast filing, including any such programs planned but not yet implemented;

(3) A report of the effect of existing and planned conservation and load management programs on the gas winter peak load, and on the projected resource requirements for the next ten years from the date of the forecast filing, including a description of the program's consistency with state energy policy;

(4) Documentation of the program elements, costs, implementation requirements, and fuel and energy savings objectives for each conservation and load management program filed pursuant to this section for the next ten years from the date of the forecast filing and documentation of fuel and energy savings achieved to date for each program; and

(5) Such other information as the Department may direct.

(b) If the conservation and load management plan filed pursuant to Section 16a-49-2 (a) of these regulations contains programs for multi-year conservation and load management investments, the gas public service company shall file the following additional information:

(1) The expected annual cost of operating the program, the capital investment requirements for each year of the program, and the anticipated savings of gas for each year of the program;

(2) Documentation as to the use of cash or energy source credits to customers as part of the program;

(3) Documentation as to the energy source or fuel used and the energy source or fuel displaced by the program;

(4) The anticipated impact of such programs on the gas public service company's gas demand and energy requirements; and

(5) Testimony regarding the requested premium above the most recently authorized rate of return for each multi-year program requiring capital investment, the requested period of amortization, and the annual and cumulative amount requested to be recovered in rate base. Such information shall address each individual multi-year investment program as well as the cumulative impact of such programs.

(Effective October 26, 1989)