Category: Electricity

A variable electricity supply tariff based on higher unit charges during peak periods and lower unit charges during off-peak periods

Scheduled outages of electricity are routine interruptions planned well in advance such as those scheduled for routine maintenance or inspection of equipment

A purchasing deal whereby a private producer of electrical energy sells all or part of it to the holder of a transmission license, according to the conditions in these regulations and the appropriate production plan, whose format is determined by the Authority (non dispatchable)

A purchasing deal whereby the producer places his available capacity at the disposal of the holder of a transmission license according to a suitable production plan in a format determined by the Authority, and sells him electrical energy or part of it, according to the requirement from the system manager (dispatchable).

Intentionally engineered electrical power outage caused due to lack of available resources (electricity) to meet demand during peak hours.

The arrangement is meant for large electricity consumers such as factories, kibbutzim, hotels and governmental offices that agree to cut themselves off from the grid during peak consumption hours – and use private generators – in order to cut the load from the grid. These consumers undertake to activate their generators during certain hours (up to 100 hours per year) in return for a financial incentive for each KwH not consumed. The objective of the arrangement is to reduce hundreds of megawatts of consumption during peak hours in order to help cope with the emergency situation in Israel’s electricity economy. In November 2009, the PUA passed new regulations regarding rolling blackout arrangements according to which IEC is entitled to cut off large consumers for longer periods than agreed in the arrangement but must compensate them with even lower tariff