WAC 194-22-030 Curtailment stages. State curtailment directives apply to all retail loads served within the state of Washington. Under this plan, curtailment is requested or ordered as a percentage of historical, base billing period electric energy consumption, weather normalized at the discretion of each utility, for all individual residential, general, and major use consumers in the state of Washington. Curtailment stages are associated with increasing energy deficits, and are therefore likely to be implemented in a sequential manner, however, circumstances may require nonsequential implementation.

The five curtailment stages are:

Curtailment

Stage #	Nature	Percent	Type of Curtailment
Stage 1	Voluntary	No specified %	Uniform among all consumers
Stage 2	Voluntary	5%+	Uniform among all consumers
Stage 3	Mandatory	5 to 15%	Uniform among all consumers
Stage 4	Mandatory	15%	Residential consumers
		15%+	General use consumers
		15%+	Major use consumers
Stage 5	Mandatory	% associated with Stage 4+ additional curtailment	Continued consumer curtailment plus utility action, including plant closures and possible black-outs

[Statutory Authority: RCW 43.21F.045. 94-20-103, § 194-22-030, filed 10/4/94, effective 11/4/94.]