Section 451.330  Technical Qualifications under Subpart D

a)         An applicant that uses electric generation, transmission or distribution facilities that it owns, controls, or operates in serving customers shall be deemed to possess sufficient technical capabilities to serve retail customers identified in this Subpart if it maintains a technical staff on duty or on call 24 hours each day to operate and maintain applicant's facilities as needed, and meets the criteria in subsections (b) and (c) of this Section.

b)         An applicant shall be deemed to possess sufficient technical capabilities to serve retail customers identified in this Subpart if it has individuals on its staff with demonstrated four years electric sales experience, four years electric system operational experience, six months experience with OASIS reservation processes, six months experience with NERC tagging processes, and two years experience working with rules and practices established by NERC and MAIN and/or MAPP and provides, or has arranged to provide, the following:

1)         A scheduling facility with 24 hour manned operation for coordination with control centers of scheduling changes, reserve implementation, curtailment orders, and interruption plan implementation; and

2)         The applicant shall designate in its application, and shall agree thereafter to maintain, a telephone number, fax number, and address where its staff can be directly reached at all times. Maintenance of an answering service or machine, pager, or similar message-taking procedure does not satisfy this requirement.

c)         The applicant shall include in its application an exhibit containing occupational background information on the persons who are being used to meet the requirements of this Section.

d)         In the event the applicant does not meet length of experience qualifications set forth above, the applicant shall demonstrate the extent its technical resources and abilities match the services that it intends to provide to its customers. The Commission may impose such terms and conditions as deemed necessary in order to insure the applicant is technically qualified, commensurate with the anticipated scope of the service to be provided and customers to be served.

(Source:  Added at 23 Ill. Reg. 13820, effective December 1, 1999)