[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 18, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 18CFR131.80]
[Page 456-459]
TITLE 18--CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES
CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
PART 131_FORMS--Table of Contents
Sec. 131.80 FERC Form No. 556, Certification of qualifying facility status for an existing or a proposed small power production or cogeneration facility.
(See Sec. 292.207 of this chapter.)
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FERC FORM 556, OMB No. 1902-0075 Expires --------
Certification of Qualifying Facility Status for an Existing or a
Proposed Small Power Production or Cogeneration Facility
(To be completed for the purpose of demonstrating up-to-date
conformance with the qualification criteria of Section 292.203(a)(1) or
Section 292.203(b), based on actual or planned operating experience)
General instructions: Part A of the form should be completed by all
small power producers or cogenerators. Part B applies to small power
production facilities. Part C applies to cogeneration facilities. All
references to sections are with regard to Part 292 of Title 18 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, unless otherwise indicated.
Part A--General Information To Be Submitted by all Applicants
1a. Full name:
Docket Number assigned to the immediately preceding submittal filed
with the Commission in connection with the instant facility, if any:
QF------ - ------ - ------.
Purpose of instant filing (self-certification or self-
recertification (Section 292.207(a)(1)), or application for Commission
certification or recertification (Sections 292.207 (b) and (d)(2))):
1b. Full address of applicant:
1c. Indicate the owner(s) of the facility (including the percentage
of ownership held by any electric utility or electric utility holding
company, or by any persons owned by either) and the operator of the
facility. Note that any combination of direct and/or indirect electric
utility or electric utility holding company ownership cannot exceed 50
percent of the total ownership (Sections 292.206 and 292.202(n)). For
non-electric utility owners, identify the upstream owners, including
owners holding 10 percent or more of the equity interest of such non-
electric utility owners. Additionally, state whether or not any of the
non-electric utility owners or their upstream owners are engaged in the
generation or sale of electric power, or have any ownership or operating
interest in any electric facilities other than qualifying facilities. In
order to facilitate review of the application, the applicant may also
provide an ownership chart identifying the upstream ownership of the
facility. Such chart should indicate ownership percentages where
appropriate.
1d. Signature of authorized individual evidencing accuracy and
authenticity of information provided by applicant:
2. Person to whom communications regarding the filed information may
be addressed:
Name:
Title:
Telephone number:
Mailing address:
3a. Location of facility to be certified:
State:
County:
City or town:
Street address (if known):
3b. Indicate the electric utilities that are contemplated to
transact with the qualifying facility (if known) and describe the
services those electric utilities are expected to provide: utilities
interconnecting with the facility and/or providing wheeling service
(Section 292.303(c) and (d)): utilities purchasing the useful electric
power output (Sections 292.101(b)(2), 292.202(g) and 292.303(a)):
utilities providing supplementary power, backup power, maintenance
power, and/or interruptible power service (Sections 292.101(b) (3) and
(8), 292.303(b) and 292.305(b)):
4a. Describe the principal components of the facility including
boilers, prime movers and electric generators, and explain their
operation. Include transmission lines, transformers and switchyard
equipment, if included as part of the facility.
4b. Indicate the maximum gross and maximum net electric power
production capacity of the facility at the point(s) of delivery and show
the derivation.
4c. Indicate the actual or expected installation and operation dates
of the facility, or the actual or expected date of completion of the
reported modification to the facility:
4d. Describe the primary energy input (e.g., hydro, coal, oil
(Section 292.202(l)), natural gas (Section 292.202(k)), solar,
geothermal, wind, waste, biomass (Section 292.202(a)), or other). For a
waste energy input that does not fall within one of the categories on
the Commission's list of previously approved wastes, demonstrate that
such energy input has little or no current commercial value and that it
exists in the absence of the qualifying facility industry (Section
292.202(b)).
5. Provide the average annual hourly energy input in terms of Btu
for the following fossil fuel energy inputs, and provide the related
percentage of the total average annual hourly energy input to the
facility (Section 292.202(j)). For any oil or natural gas fuel, use
lower heating value (Section 292.202(m)):
Natural gas:
Oil:
Coal (applicable only to a small power production facility):
6. Discuss any particular characteristic of the facility which the
cogenerator or small power producer believes might bear on its
qualifying status.
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Part B--Description of the Small Power Production Facility
7. Describe how fossil fuel use will not exceed 25 percent of the
total annual energy input limit (Sections 292.202(j) and 292.204(b)).
Also, describe how the use of fossil fuel will be limited to the
following purposes to conform to Federal Power Act Section 3(17)(B):
Ignition, start-up, testing, flame stabilization, control use, and
minimal amounts of fuel required to alleviate or prevent unanticipated
equipment outages and emergencies directly affecting the public.
8. If the facility reported herein is not an eligible solar, wind,
waste or geothermal facility, and if any other non-eligible facility
located within one mile of the instant facility is owned by any of the
entities (or their affiliates) reported in Part A at item 1c. above and
uses the same primary energy input, provide the following information
about the other facility for the purpose of demonstrating that the total
of the power production capacities of these facilities does not exceed
80 MW (Section 292.204(a)):
Facility name, if any (as reported to the Commission):
Commission Docket Number: QF------ - ------ - ------
Name of common owner:
Common primary energy source used as energy input:
Power production capacity (MW):
An eligible solar, wind, waste or geothermal facility, as defined in
Section 3(17)(E) of the Federal Power Act, is a small power production
facility that produces electric energy solely by the use, as a primary
energy input, of solar, wind, waste or geothermal resources, for which
either an application for Commission certification of qualifying status
(Section 292.207(b)) or a notice of self-certification of qualifying
status (Section 292.207(a)) was submitted to the Commission not later
than December 31, 1994, and for which construction of such facility
commences not later than December 31, 1999, or if not, reasonable
diligence is exercised toward the completion of such facility, taking
into account all factors relevant to construction of the facility.
Part C--Description of the Cogeneration Facility
9. Describe the cogeneration system (Sections 292.202(c) and
292.203(b)), and state whether the facility is a topping-cycle (Section
292.202(d)) or bottoming-cycle (Section 292.202(e)) cogeneration
facility.
10. To demonstrate the sequentiality of the cogeneration process
(Section 292.202(s)) and to support compliance with other requirements
such as the operating and efficiency standards (item 11 below), provide
a mass and heat balance (cycle) diagram depicting average annual hourly
operating conditions. Also, provide:
Using lower heating value (Section 292.202(m)), all fuel flow inputs
in Btu/hr., separately indicating fossil fuel inputs for any
supplementary firing in Btu/hr. (Section 292.202(f)):
Average net electric output (kW or MW) (Section 292.202(g));
Average net mechanical output in horsepower (Section 292.202(g));
Number of hours of operation used to determine the average annual
hourly facility inputs and outputs; and
Working fluid (e.g., steam) flow conditions at input and output of
prime mover(s) and at delivery to and return from each useful thermal
application:
Flow rates (lbs./hr.):
Temperature (deg.F):
Pressure (psia):
Enthalpy (Btu/lb.):
11. Compute the operating value (applicable to a topping-cycle
facility under Section 292.205(a)(1)) and the efficiency value (Sections
292.205(a)(2) and Section 292.205(b)), based on the information provided
in and corresponding to item 10, as follows:
Pt=Average annual hourly useful thermal energy output
Pe=Average annual hourly electrical output
Pm=Average annual hourly mechanical output
Pi=Average annual hourly energy input (natural gas or oil)
Ps=Average annual hourly energy input for supplementary
firing (natural gas or oil)
Operating standard=5% or more
Operating value=Pt/
(Pt+Pe+Pm)
Efficiency standard applicable to natural gas and oil fuel used in a
topping-cycle facility:
=45% or more when operating value is less than 15%, or 42.5% or more
when operating value is equal to or greater than 15%.
Efficiency value=(Pe+Pm+0.5Pt)/
(Pi+Ps)
Efficiency standard applicable to natural gas and oil fuel used for
supplementary firing component of a bottoming-cycle facility:
=45% or more
Efficiency value=(Pe+Pm)/Ps
For Topping-Cycle Cogeneration Facilities
12. Identify the entity (i.e., thermal host) which will purchase the
useful thermal energy output from the facility (Section 292.202(h)).
Indicate whether the entity uses such output for the purpose of space
and water heating, space cooling, and/or process use.
13. In connection with the requirement that the thermal energy
output be useful (Section 292.202(h)):
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For process uses by commercial or industrial host(s), describe each
process (or group of similar processes using the same quality of steam)
and provide the average annual hourly thermal energy made available to
the process, less process return. For a complex system, where the
primary steam header at the host-side is divided into various sub-uses,
each having different pressure and temperature characteristics, describe
the processes associated with each sub-use and provide the average
annual hourly thermal energy delivered to each sub-use, less process
return from such sub-use. Provide a diagram showing the main steam
header and the sub-uses with other relevant information such as the
average header pressure (psia), the temperature (deg.F), the enthalpy
(Btu/lb.), and the flow (lb./hr.), both in and out of each sub-use. For
space and water heating, describe the type of heating involved (e.g.,
office space heating, domestic water heating) and provide the average
annual hourly thermal energy delivered and used for such purpose. For
space cooling, describe the type of cooling involved (e.g., office space
cooling) and provide the average annual hourly thermal energy used by
the chiller.
For Bottoming-Cycle Facilities
14. Provide a description of the commercial or industrial process or
other thermal application to which the energy input to the system is
first applied and from which the reject heat is then used for electric
power production.
[Order 575, 60 FR 4855, Jan. 25, 1995]