Clean Electricity Regulations (SOR/2024-263)

Marginal note:Electricity generation capacity

• 6 (1) Subject to subsection (6), a unit’s electricity generation capacity is

  • (a) the unit’s maximum gross power, measured at the electrical terminals of the unit’s generators and determined in accordance with subsections (2) to (4); or

  • (b) if the responsible person has not determined the unit’s maximum gross power, the unit’s most recent maximum continuous rating.

• Marginal note:Performance test

  (2) To determine a unit’s maximum gross power, the responsible person must conduct, in the presence of the performance test verifier referred to in subsection (3), a performance test that

  • (a) is conducted on or after January 1, 2025;

  • (b) is a continuous test that lasts at least two hours;

  • (c) does not compromise the continued operation of the unit by exceeding the operating specifications for temperature, pressure or electrical conductivity recommended by the manufacturer of the equipment that is part of the unit;

  • (d) does not require that the planned maintenance schedule of the unit be altered; and

  • (e) has results that are adjusted to standard conditions.

• Marginal note:Performance test verifier

  (3) The performance test verifier is an individual who

  • (a) is independent of the responsible person; and

  • (b) has demonstrated knowledge of the performance testing of units that generate electricity using fossil fuel and at least five years’ experience with respect to such testing.

• Marginal note:Performance test report

  (4) A responsible person that conducts a performance test must submit to the Minister a performance test report prepared by the performance test verifier that contains the information set out in Schedule 1.

• Marginal note:Report submitted after registration

  (5) A responsible person that submits a performance test report for a unit after the registration report for the unit is submitted under subsection 7(1), paragraph 7(2)(a) or subsection 8(2) must submit to the Minister, no later than 60 days after the day on which the test is conducted, the performance test report along with the updated registration report referred to in subsection 7(4).

• Marginal note:Change of electricity generation capacity

  (6) If, during a calendar year in which a unit is subject to an emission limit under subsection 9(1), the maximum gross power or maximum continuous rating of the unit changes, the unit’s electricity generation capacity for that calendar year is determined by the formula

  

  where

  i

  is the i^th period of the calendar year, where “i” goes from 1 to n and where n is the number of periods in the calendar year during which the unit’s electricity generation capacity differs from the preceding or subsequent period;

  C_i

  is the electricity generation capacity of the unit during the i^th period of the calendar year;

  D_i

  is the length of the i^th period of the calendar year, expressed in days; and

  N

  is the number of days during the calendar year that the unit’s electricity generation capacity is greater than zero.

• Marginal note:Rounding

  (7) The electricity generation capacity determined under subsection (2) or (6) is to be rounded to the nearest whole number or, if equidistant between two consecutive whole numbers, to the higher number.