§7276 Regulations to require integrated resource planning

Summary

Within one year after October 24, 1992 (by October 24, 1993), the Administrator must update the 1985 customer conservation and renewable energy rules so that any customer buying power under a long-term firm contract from the Western Area Power Administration must start integrated resource planning by October 24, 1995, following the requirements in sections 7275–7276c. For customers with annual sales or use of 25 Gigawatt Hours or less who are not members of a joint action agency or a generation-and-transmission cooperative, the Administrator may make different rules if those customers lack economic, managerial, or resource ability. Those alternate rules must still make them consider demand-side actions, new renewables, and other programs that seek the lowest possible retail cost and minimize environmental harm where practicable.