Transportation service (schedule TS).
Richmond, Va., City Code § 28-241
in effectSec. 28-241. - Transportation service (schedule TS).
(a) Scope. The gas rates, terms and conditions in this section shall apply to customers provided transportation service under schedule TS.
(b) Applicability. Gas service under schedule TS is applicable as follows:
(1) This rate schedule is available throughout the service territory served by the City to all gas owned by a nonresidential customer that is transported to and on the City's gas distribution system. This service is applicable only to customers that take in excess of 120,000 ccf over a consecutive 12-month period at the delivery point set forth in the service agreement for transportation between the City and the customer (referred to as the "service agreement"). The customer must deliver its gas to the receipt point approved by the City and set forth in the service agreement. Once the City has received the customer's gas at the receipt point, the City will transport the gas, minus the lost and unaccounted for adjustment determined under Subsection (g)(2) of this section to the delivery point. This service is available only to those customers who execute a service agreement for the service provided in this section.
(2) Daily balancing service is mandatory for all customers under this rate schedule.
(3) This service requires the installation and use of telemetering equipment at the delivery point. The City shall install, own, and maintain the telemetering and other equipment at the delivery point necessary to transmit the telemetering information to the City. The customer shall provide the dedicated telephone line necessary for the reliable operation of the telemetering equipment and the transmission of the telemetering information. The City will meter the customer's takes of gas at the delivery point. The customer shall pay for the installation of electronic measurement equipment if measurement equipment is not so equipped. Payment will be required prior to initiation of transportation service.
(c) Character of service. The City shall be obligated to deliver gas to the delivery point up to the lesser of the customer's transportation maximum daily quantity (TMDQ) and the daily volume of gas received by the City from the customer at the receipt, point minus the lost and unaccounted for adjustment determined under Subsection (g)(2) of this section.
(d) Service agreement. A service agreement shall be provided in accordance with the following:
(1) The customer shall execute a service agreement with the City which specifies the TMDQ, the receipt point, the delivery point, and the pressure at the delivery point. The service agreement shall be in the form as attached to this rate schedule on file in the City offices.
(2) The service agreement shall have an initial term of one year and then shall continue in effect for additional terms of one year until terminated by the customer or the City upon at least 30 days' written notice given prior to the end of the initial term or of any additional term.
(3) If a customer takes gas from the City under this rate schedule at more than one delivery point, these delivery points will be included in one service agreement and will be treated as a single delivery point for purposes of the customer charge, the distribution charge, the daily and monthly imbalances and imbalance charges, the TMDQ, and meeting the minimum take requirement to qualify for service under this rate schedule.
(e) Transportation maximum daily quantity (TMDQ). After consulting with a customer, the City will assign the customer a TMDQ. This TMDQ will remain in effect for the term of the service agreement unless modified by written agreement of the City and the customer.
(f) Rates and charges for transportation service. The customer shall pay the rates and charges each month for gas for transportation service under schedule TS as follows:
Gas rates and charges each month for transportation service under Schedule TS; these amounts do not include the cost of gas received at the receipt point for the customer
Customer charge, per month | $444.64
Distribution charge
For the amount taken up to 15,000 ccf, per ccf | $0.216
For amounts taken from 15,010 ccf to 115,000 ccf, per ccf | $0.216
For the amount taken over 115,000 ccf, per ccf | $0.216
Charge for daily imbalance in excess of ten percent, per ccf | $0.066
(g) Receipt and delivery. Receipt and delivery shall be in accordance with the following:
(1) The receipt point shall be at a pipeline City gate station as assigned by the City and as specified in the service agreement.
(2) The City shall retain a percentage of volumes delivered to the receipt point for a lost and unaccounted for adjustment, and the City shall be obligated to deliver at the delivery point only the remainder of the volumes received. As of the effective date of this rate schedule, the percentage of volumes retained shall be 2½ percent.
(h) Load balancing. Load balancing shall be in accordance with the following:
(1) The City shall provide the customer with daily balancing service within the parameters set forth in this subsection.
(2) The customer shall provide the City with good faith, nonbinding nominations when requested by the City.
(3) The customer's daily imbalance shall be equal to the difference between:
a. The volume of gas actually delivered on a day to the receipt point by or on behalf of the customer, minus the lost and unaccounted for adjustment determined under Subsection (g)(2) of this section (net daily receipts); and
b. The customer's actual usage as determined from daily meter readings at the delivery point (daily deliveries).
A daily underdelivery shall be deemed to occur whenever net daily receipts are less than daily deliveries. A daily overdelivery shall be deemed to occur whenever net daily receipts are greater than daily deliveries.
(4) The City's charge for daily imbalances is set forth in Subsection (f) of this section and shall apply to daily deliveries in excess of 110 percent of net daily receipts or the volume by which daily deliveries are below 90 percent of net daily receipts. The imbalance charge is in addition to and not in lieu of other transportation charges established by this rate schedule.
(5) Failure of the customer's transportation gas to arrive at the City gate shall result in one of two possibilities. If enough system supply is available, the customer shall purchase all gas in excess of the customer's net daily receipts at the sum of the customer's distribution charge, the balancing charge as set forth in Subsection (f) of this section and the greater of either the City WACOG or 105 percent of the highest Transco Zone 6 (non-New York) price for the current month. If enough system supply is not available, the customer shall purchase all gas in excess of the customer's net daily receipts at the sum of the customer's distribution charge, the balancing charge as set forth in Subsection (f) of this section, the peak shaving price and the storage capacity price.
(6) When the customer's daily deliveries exceed the actual usage at the delivery point, the City shall purchase these "overtendered" quantities at the lower of the City WACOG or 95 percent of the Transco Zone 6 (non-New York) price for the current month.
(7) If on any day the daily imbalance, as set forth in Subsection (h)(3) of this section, exceeds ten percent, the customer shall pay a pro rata share of any upstream gas pipeline penalties incurred based upon the customer's daily imbalance in the same direction as the imbalance for which the penalty was incurred.
(i) Utility tax. All bills rendered under this rate schedule shall be subject to any applicable utility tax.
(j) Force majeure. If either the City or the customer is rendered unable, either wholly or in part, to carry out its obligations under this section because of a force majeure, the obligations of the party affected by such force majeure, other than the obligation to make payments under this section, shall be suspended during the continuance of any inability so caused, but for no longer period. Such force majeure shall, insofar as possible, be remedied with all reasonable dispatch. The term "force majeure," as used in this subsection, shall include acts of God; strikes; lockouts; wars; riots; insurrections; terrorism; epidemics; landslides; lightning; earthquakes; fires; storms; floods; washouts; interruptions by government or court orders; civil disturbances; explosions; breakage, freezing, or accident to lines of pipe or facilities; failure of interstate or intrastate pipeline transportation, but only if caused by an event constituting force majeure curtailment or discontinuation by such pipeline of transportation or other services; and any other cause, whether of the kind defined in this subsection or otherwise, not within the control of the party claiming suspension and which, by the exercise of reasonable foresight, such party is unable to avoid and, by the exercise of due diligence, such party is unable to overcome.
(Code 1993, § 29-241.1; Code 2004, § 106-203; Code 2015, § 28-195; Code 2020, § 28-195; Ord. No. 2009-57-80, § 1, 5-26-2009; Ord. No. 2010-82-95, § 1, 5-24-2010; Ord. No. 2011-57-84, § 1, 5-23-2011; Ord. No. 2012-50-65, § 1, 5-14-2012; Ord. No. 2013-53-85, § 1, 5-28-2013; Ord. No. 2014-63-113, § 1, 5-27-2014; Ord. No. 2015-71-102, § 1, 5-15-2015; Ord. No. 2016-071, § 1, 5-13-2016; Ord. No. 2017-059, § 1, 5-15-2017; Ord. No. 2018-091, § 1, 5-14-2018; Ord. No. 2019-068, § 1, 5-13-2019; Ord. No. 2021-056, § 1, 5-24-2021; Ord. No. 2022-071, § 1, 5-9-2022; Ord. No. 2023-071, § II(3), 5-8-2023; Ord. No. 2024-099, § III(§ 8), 5-13-2024)
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