Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FINANCE › Division - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 74 - STANDARDS FOR SMALL POWER PRODUCTION AND COGENERATION › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 6-74-1 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly
					 requires otherwise:
"Avoided costs" means the incremental or additional costs
					 to an electric utility of electric energy or firm capacity or both which costs
					 the utility would avoid by purchase from the qualifying facility.
"Avoided energy costs" means the energy costs consisting of
					 cost of fuel and generation operating and maintenance costs as a minimum with
					 fuel inventory, working cash, line loss costs considered when presented in a
					 specific proposal from a qualifying facility to the electric utility.
"Back-up power" means electric energy or capacity supplied
					 by an electric utility to replace energy ordinarily generated by a facility's
					 own generation equipment during an unscheduled outage of the facility.
"Commission" means the public utilities commission of the
					 State.
"Electric generating capacity" means the generating
					 capacity of the qualifying facility as determined from the sum of the nameplate
					 capacities on all electric generators installed at the qualifying
					 facility.
"Emergency capacity" means capacity requested by and made
					 available to an electric utility under utility dispatch by a qualifying
					 facility, above and beyond the firm capacity agreed to.
"FERC" means the United States Federal Energy Regulatory
					 Commission.
"Firm capacity" means the scheduled amounts of capacity in
					 kilowatts (kw) which a qualifying facility has a legally enforceable obligation
					 to make available to an electric utility under utility dispatch within
					 particular time periods, and which the electric utility agrees to
					 accept.
"Interconnection costs" means the reasonable costs of
					 connection, switching, metering, transmission, distribution, safety provisions
					 and administrative costs incurred by the electric utility directly related to
					 the installation and maintenance of the physical facilities necessary to permit
					 interconnected operations with a qualifying facility, to the extent such costs
					 are in excess of the corresponding costs which the electric utility would have
					 incurred if it had not engaged in interconnected operations, but instead
					 generated an equivalent amount of electric energy itself or purchased an
					 equivalent amount of electric energy or capacity from other sources.
					 Interconnection costs do not include any costs included in the calculation of
					 avoided costs.
"Legally enforceable obligation" means a binding contract
					 for purchase, which has been approved by the commission.
"Minimum purchase rate" means the avoided energy costs
					 determined in accordance with this chapter as in effect on the date that a
					 legally enforceable obligation between the qualifying facility and utility
					 becomes effective and the rate shall remain constant thereafter for the period
					 of the contract. Where there is no contract in excess of one year, the minimum
					 purchase rate shall be one hundred per cent of the avoided energy costs in
					 effect on the date the qualifying facility delivers energy to the
					 utility.
"Purchase" means the purchase of electric energy or
					 capacity or both from a qualifying facility by an electric utility.
"Qualifying facility" means a cogeneration facility or a
					 small power production facility which is a qualifying facility under §
										6-74-4 and subpart 2 of the
					 regulations of the FERC regarding qualifying cogeneration and small power
					 production facilities, 18 C.F.R. Part 292.
"Rate" means any price, rate, charge, or classification
					 made, demanded, observed, or received with respect to the sale or purchase of
					 electric energy or capacity, or any rule or practice respecting that rate,
					 charge, or classification, or any contract pertaining to the sale or purchase
					 of electric energy or capacity.
"Sale" means the sale of electric energy or capacity or
					 both by an electric utility to a qualifying facility.
"State" means the State of Hawaii.
"Supplementary power" means electric energy or capacity
					 supplied by an electric utility, regularly used by a qualifying facility in
					 addition to that which the facility generates itself.
"System emergency" means a condition on a utility's system
					 which is likely to result in imminent significant disruption of service to
					 customers or is imminently likely to endanger life or property.
"Utility dispatch" means the sole and absolute right of the
					 electric utility, through supervisory equipment or otherwise, to control, from
					 moment to moment, within the limits of sound engineering practices, the rate of
					 delivery of energy, firm capacity and emergency capacity offered by a
					 qualifying facility and accepted by the electric utility.