Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 461 - CERTIFICATION FOR NEW UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR INSTALLERS › Section 461.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Terms defined in Section 16-128A of the Act shall have the same
				meaning for purposes of this Part as they have under Section 16-128A of the Act,
				unless further defined in this Part.
"Act" means the Public Utilities Act [ 220 ILCS 5 ].
"Applicant" means an entity that files an application with the
				Illinois Commerce Commission requesting certification pursuant to Section 16-128A of
				the Act to be an installer of new solar projects.
"Certificate holder" means an entity that has received certification
				pursuant to this Part and that is in good standing with the Commission.
"Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission.
"Company"
,
when used in connection with a
				public utility, includes any corporation, company, limited liability company,
				association, joint stock company or association, firm, partnership or individual,
				their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, owning,
				holding, operating, controlling or managing such a public utility, but not municipal
				corporations. "Company", when used other than in connection with a public utility,
				includes any corporation, company, limited liability company, association, joint
				stock company or association, firm or partnership, but does not include municipal
				corporations.
[ 220 ILCS 5/3-112 ]
"Corporation" includes any corporation, company, limited
				liability company, association, joint stock company or association, but not
				municipal corporations.
[
				220 ILCS
				5/3-113 ]
"Directly supervised" means that there is a person on-site at the
				new solar project who meets the qualifications to perform solar installations and
				who is available for consultation and review of work performed by apprentices or
				electrical contractors who are performing installations.
"Entity" means a company, corporation, person or limited liability
				partnership that is involved in the business of installing utility-scale
				generation.
"Illinois Community College Board" means the State coordinating
				board for community colleges that administers the Public Community College Act [ 110
				ILCS 805 ] in a manner that maximizes the ability of the community colleges to serve
				their communities.
"Install" means to perform the electrical wiring and connections
				necessary to interconnect the new solar project with the electric utility's
				transmission or distribution system at the point of interconnection between the
				project and the utility. "Install" in this Part specifically does not mean:
Electrical wiring and connections to interconnect the new solar
				project performed by utility workers;
Electrical wiring and connections internal to the new solar project
				performed by the manufacturer;
The on-site construction and installation of a solar panel or a
				collector substation; or
Tasks relating to construction, planning and project management
				performed by individuals such as an inspector, management planner, consultant,
				project designer or contractor for the project or their employees.
"NEC" means the National Electrical Code adopted by the National
				Fire Protection Association, Inc., 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy MA 02169 (NFPA 70),
				effective August 24 2016.
"Person"
means
an individual, firm, limited
				liability company, or co-partnership.
[
				220 ILCS
				5/3-114 ]
"Qualified person" means a person who performs installations on
				behalf of the certificate holder and who has completed at least one of the following
				programs requiring lab or field work and received a certification of satisfactory
				completion: an apprenticeship as a journeyman electrician from a USDOL-registered or
				an applicable state-agency-registered electrical apprenticeship and training
				program; a North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP)
				distributed generation technology certification program; an electrical training
				program for in-house employees established and administered by an electric utility
				regulated by the Commission; or an Associate in Applied Science degree from an
				Illinois Community College Board-approved community college program in solar
				generation technology.
"New solar projects" means utility-scale solar projects for which
				the installation begins on or after June 1, 2017.
"USDOL-registered electrician apprenticeship program" means an
				electrician apprenticeship training program that is registered with the United
				States Department of Labor (USDOL).
"USDOL certification of satisfactory completion" means that the
				person has received a nationally recognized and portable certificate of completion
				from an electrician apprenticeship program that is registered with USDOL.
"Utility-scale solar project" has the meaning ascribed in Section
				1-10 of the Illinois Power Agency Act [
				20 ILCS 3855/1-10
				].