IMPLEMENTATION
TASK FORCE
FOURTH MEETING
MINUTES
March 3rd, 1999
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OVERVIEW:
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The Task Force (TF) reviewed the time
line of restructuring events affecting electricity utilities (retail licencing,
corporatization deadline, start of taxation start date, unbundled distribution
rates, etc). The working group dealing with the energy efficiency issue
shared the outcome of their discussions. They are suggesting a biphasic
approach to DSM with voluntary adoption of mechanisms to effect DSM in
Phase I, followed by a DSM consultative process Phase II to have consistent
approach to DSM in the gas and electricity industries. Extensive discussions
and concerns were raised regarding energy efficiency. The working group
concerned with customer service performance standards prepared a survey
that will be distributed to all electricity distributors with the purpose
of determining measurable benchmarks. The group working on reliability
standards are suggesting SAIDI (system average interruption duration index)
and CAIDI (customer average interruption duration index) as the system
reliability indicators. A survey to establish benchmarks for these two
indicators will be distributed together with the aforementioned customer
service benchmark survey.
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ASSIGNMENTS:
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The working group dealing with energy
efficiency will continue their discussions with the questions of where
DSM resides, what the role of the distributors is, and consider options
for voluntary programs outside of PBR. The task force members discussing
the sharing mechanism will look at sharing under complete rate restructuring
and under phasing-in of rate restructuring. The group developing the reliability
standards will prepare their survey for the determination of benchmarks
and will continue work on performance enforcement.
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