Section 113.0607. Appropriate inspection and maintenance: system reliability.

 

(1)   Preventative maintenance plan. Each utility or other person subject to this chapter, including persons who own electric generating facilities in this state who provide service to utilities with contracts of 5 years or more, shall develop and have in place its own preventative maintenance plan. This section is applicable to electric generating facilities as set forth at s. 196.491 (5) (a) 1. , Stats. Each plan shall include, among other things, appropriate inspection, maintenance and replacement cycles where applicable for overhead and underground distribution plant, transmission, generation and substation facilities.

(2)   Contents of the plan.

(a) Performance standard . The preventative maintenance plan shall be designed to ensure high quality, safe and reliable service, considering: cost, geography, weather, applicable codes, national electric industry practices, sound engineering judgment and experience.

(b) Elements of the plan .

1. Inspection.

a. The plan under sub. (1) shall include a schedule for the periodic inspection of all facilities owned and operated by the utility and used to provide electric service to its customers. The plan under sub. (1) shall describe the method for inspection of each type of equipment as designated by the reporting utility. Checklist/report forms shall be included in the plan under sub. (1) .

b. The plan under sub. (1) shall include guidelines for inspectors to determine the condition of a facility or piece of equipment.

2. Condition rating criteria. A rating criteria shall be established to grade the condition of a facility or piece of equipment. Rating criteria for generating facilities should conform to generator availability data system (GADS) requirements as reported to the national electric reliability council, or other accepted industry practices.

3. Corrective action schedule. The results of inspections, assessments and condition rating criteria shall be used to define the schedule for implementing maintenance on the facility or piece of equipment. The plan under sub. (1) shall describe how facilities or equipment corrective action schedules are added to the utility's budget.

4. Record keeping. Each utility shall maintain records to allow auditing of its preventative maintenance plan implementation. The records shall include inspection dates, condition rating, schedule for repair (if applicable) and the date of completion of the repair. Inspection and repair records shall be retained for a minimum of ten years.

5. Filing of plans. Each utility, as well as the transmission company created by s. 196.485 , Stats., shall file a plan in compliance with this rule within 180 days of acceptance of the rules or, in the alternative, within 180 days after the utility transmission company or other person subject to this chapter begins operation of a facility subject to this chapter.

6. Reporting requirements. Each utility shall provide a periodic report to the commission showing compliance with its preventative maintenance plan. The report shall include a list of inspected circuits and facilities, the condition of facilities according to established rating criteria, schedules established and success at meeting the established schedules. For generation facilities, the report shall include a summary of each generating unit's operating performance statistics based on the utility's GADS data, or other accepted industry data convention. Reported generating unit performance data shall include net dependable capacity, capacity factor, forced outage rate, scheduled outage factor, primary fuel and production technology type. The commission shall establish a periodic report schedule for each utility of at least once every 2 years.

7. Exchange of information. At least annually, utilities shall exchange planned outage information for the coming year for expected maintenance and other outages of generators of 50 MW or more and transmissions lines of 100 kV and higher voltage. Utilities shall also supply the same information for nonutility generators of 50 MW or more in their control areas. Utilities shall exchange updates of such information as soon as reasonably practicable when such updated information becomes known.

Cr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535 , eff. 8-1-00; CR 02-027 : am. (2) (a), (b) 1. a. and b. 2. and 3., and (2) (b) 6., Register December 2002 No. 564 , eff. 1-1-03.