UE21404

IN THE MATTER of an application by Maritime Electric Company, Limited for approval of an Demand Side Management Plan.

Notice of Application

TAKE NOTICE that Maritime Electric Company, Limited ("Maritime Electric" or the "Company") has applied for the approval of the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission (the "Commission") a Phase III Report covering the Company’s Demand Side Management Plan for the years 2006-2010. This filing replaces the filing of November, 2006 and is in response to Commission Order UE07-06.

Demand side management plan for 2005 to 2010
6. (1) Every public utility shall, before September 1, 2006, prepare and submit to the Commission for its approval a plan of the demand side management measures that the public utility proposes to undertake during the period beginning on January 1, 2007 and ending on December 31, 2010 to ensure that the reduction in the intensity of peak demand by rate payers for electric energy from the public utility by the end of that period exceeds or is equal to the percentage reduction required to obtain the approval of the Commission under subsection (2).

Approval of plan for 2005 to 2010
(2) The Commission may, on receipt of a demand side management plan for the period referred to in subsection (1), approve the plan if the Commission is satisfied that, after the implementation of the measures set out in the plan, the intensity of the peak demand for electric energy from the public utility for the calendar year 2010 is likely to be at least 5% less than the intensity of the peak demand for electric energy from the public utility for the calendar year 2004.

Maritime Electric's Phase III Report outlines the initiatives planned to achieve the 2010 Demand Side Management (DSM) targets. Under the Act, the Commission is required to approve the plan. This filing will establish the components of the DSM plan which will work towards the 2010 legislated requirements under the Act.

HOW TO SEE THE APPLICATION

A complete copy of the application can be obtained by clicking here (36,197 KB pdf file) . Any person wishing to obtain a hard copy of the application can do so by writing to Maritime Electric at the address below.

HOW TO COMMENT

Any person wishing to comment on the filing can do so by writing to the Commission at the address below. In order to be considered, comments must be received by Thursday, January 31, 2008. Persons wishing to pose questions to Maritime Electric on the filing may do so by sending their questions, in writing, to the Company on or before Wednesday, January 16, 2008. Questions posed to Maritime Electric must be answered by the Company, in writing, on or before Friday, January 25, 2008. Copies of both written questions and written answers must be copied to, or filed with, the Commission not later than January 31, 2008 in order to be considered.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional information on the application can be obtained by contacting Maritime Electric at 629-3693. Written communications should be forwarded to:

DATED at Charlottetown, this 18th day of December, 2007.