[Adopted 1-26-2009 by Ord. No. 566-2009]
The Borough Council of Lehighton, as the retail electric regulatory authority for the municipality and its retail electric consumers, determines it to be desirable that the aggregation of demand response on behalf of its retail customers to be bid directly into the organized electric and ancillary services markets administered by the regional transmission organization that includes the Borough be performed by the Borough or its authorized designee.
The Borough, or its authorized designee is the sole entity permitted to aggregate retail customers' demand response and bid demand response on behalf of retail customers of the Borough directly into any Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized electric markets.
Retail customers on the Borough's electric system desiring to bid their demand response into a Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized electric markets may do so only by participating in the program established by the Borough or its authorized designee.
The Borough or its authorized designee is the sole entity permitted to bid demand response on behalf of retail customers of the Borough directly into any Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized markets for energy imbalance, spinning reserves, supplemental reserves, reactive power and voltage control, or regulation and frequency response ancillary services (or its functional equivalent in the Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's tariff).
Retail customers of the Borough's electric system desiring to bid their demand response into a Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's organized markets for energy imbalance, spinning reserves, supplemental reserves, reactive power and voltage control, or regulation and frequency response ancillary services (or its functional equivalent in the Commission-approved independent system operator's or regional transmission organization's tariff) may do so only by participating in the program established by the Borough or its authorized designee.