Managing Cumulative Imbalances

Noncore customers have three options for managing cumulative imbalances:

• Manage their own imbalances:
  • A noncore customer is responsible for trading imbalances, as
    well as paying any applicable imbalance charges*

• Authorize nominating marketer to trade imbalances:
  • A nominating marketer is responsible for trading imbalances,
    but the noncore customer remains responsible for any applicable
    imbalance charges*
  • A nominating marketer is designated on the customer's Natural
    Gas Service Agreement, Exhibit C

• Assign imbalances to a balancing agent:
  • A balancing agent may be a marketer managing many customer imbalances
    or may be a noncore customer managing imbalances for multiple
    premises
  • A balancing agent is responsible for trading imbalances as well
    as paying any applicable imbalance charges*
  • A balancing agent must meet Pacific Gas and Electric Company's creditworthiness
    requirements (see Gas Rule 25)
  • A noncore Balancing Aggregation Agreement (NBAA) must be executed
    between Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the balancing agent and the customer

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* Imbalance charges may include balancing, Operational Flow Order (OFO), Emergency Flow Order (EFO) and Involuntary Diversion charges.