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3. Maintenance power - QFs will occasionally have to <br />'take their generation equipment out of service-fore <br />maintenance. Power may be purchased to stand. in <br />for generation equipment during these- scheduled <br />outages. <br />4." Interruptible ower - The QF may arrange with the <br />uti ity or interruptible service, for any of the <br />kinds of power listed above. The utility would ;~ <br />then have the right- to curtail power for specified <br />periods if their system would benefit by it. In <br />return, the QF would.- pay less for interruptible y <br />service than for "firm" service. <br />Data from utilities <br />QFs would be severely limited in their negotiations. with <br />utilities if they were unable to obtain certain data upon which <br />avoided .costs .and rates -are based. The FE RC rules and the PUC. <br />decisions require utilities to file (with the ,PUC) estma.tecl <br />avoided costs associated with energ y production and capacity <br />additions. If data are .incomplete or inadequate, the.-QF" can <br />petition-the PUC to order the utility to provide necessary data.,. <br />A word of caution is in order. Much utility data is extre~ne~"y <br />complex and QFs should be prepared to seek expert advice or spetad <br />considerabYe effort interpreting it. <br />Standard rates for small QFs <br />QFs with generation capacity equal to or less than 100 kW <br />are guaranteed standard rates for sale to utilities.. Utilities <br />must- file standard rates with the PUC for small QFs .B These <br />rates .may vary, according to the QF technology. In other words, <br />small hydro producers, may have a different standard rate from <br />small wind generators, The reason for different standards rates <br />is that there are different- electric supply characteristics for <br />each technology. Therefore these different technologies each <br />allow utilities to avoid different capacity costs. Thus, stars- <br />lard rates- for each technology may differ, though they would be <br />the same for QFs using the same technology. <br />Freedom from some regulation <br />All cogenerators and small power producers with capacity ofa <br />30 MW or less are exempt from federal utility regulation:, <br />addition, QFs' up to 80 MW in Colorado are exempt- from all state- <br />laws governing the financial and organizational aspects of eleC- <br />trio utilities.9 The only requirements governing QFs are .set <br />forth in-PUC Decision (Section 5.000, p. 42). QFs are not exempt <br />from laws-and regulations normally applied to parties other than" <br />electric utilities. <br />4 <br />