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Each Member purchases from the Pool Project all of its power and energy requirements in excess of its purchased or owned resources. Power supplied by the pool is priced according to whether the purchase is "planned" or "unplanned" within the meaning of the Pooling Agreements. "Planned" purchases are those amounts of power and/or energy that a Member has scheduled through UAMPS at least one hour before such power and/or energy is required. "Unplanned" purchases are those amounts of power and/or energy that the Member required, as determined by the Member's meter(s), that do not come from the Member's own resources, including planned purchases.
Members may participate in the All-In Cost Pool that provides for Members to sell surplus resources at the all-in cost or purchase their deficit resource needs at an all-in cost form other Members. After all of the Members have satisfied their resource needs, any unutilized resource surplus is purchased by the unplanned pool and any deficit resource need is purchased from the unplanned pool. In addition to the Power Pool, UAMPS operates a power exchange through which the Members are able to enter into forward transactions with one another or with UAMPS for the purchase and sale of power and energy. The resources presently dedicated to the UAMPS Power Pool consist of power and energy from the following resources: (1) the Members' allocations of CRSP power and energy; (2) electric generating facilities owned and operated by certain Members; (3) power and energy generated by UAMPS' Hunter, San Juan and Payson Projects; (4) power and energy purchased by UAMPS under the Firm Power Project and (5) non-firm contracts with, and market purchases from, power suppliers, marketers and other throughout the West. 41 Members participate in the Pool Project. |