(1) Stage 1 of a supply alert is intended to balance electric supply with demand and consumption without eliminating employment or curtailing commercial operations or industrial production.

(2) In stage 1 of a supply alert the governor may issue orders to direct any state or local governmental agency to implement curtailment action or provide information relating to the consumption of energy. The governor may also request utilities and electricity consumers to take voluntary action to alleviate the shortage. In implementing this rule the governor may initiate the following measures:

(a) direct each state agency and local government institution to curtail and request each utility to curtail its own uses of electricity;

(b) request each utility to seek voluntary curtailment of use in all large buildings;

(c) request each utility to seek voluntary curtailment of use by its major use customers;

(d) utilize media pronouncements to request all consumers to curtail electricity use. The utility, in consultation with local government, should support these requests and recommend specific measures to be taken by all customers. Such measures shall not be as stringent as those measures set forth in ARM 14.8.214 (2) (d) under stage 2 of a supply alert;

(e) request each deficient utility to replace, by purchase or other means, energy included in its planned resources but not generated due to outages of its major resources; and,

(f) direct the department of health and environmental sciences to examine all restrictions relating to air quality where electricity use could be affected directly or offset by other fuels and to recommend to the governor what action should be taken, if any, in each stage of a supply alert and emergency.

(3) Compliance with the provisions of subsection (2) is at the customers' discretion; utilities and local governments act in advisory and informational capacity and are self-monitoring for their own compliance.

(4) Enforcement of the provisions of subsection (2) is not applicable.