Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 430 - PURCHASE AND SALE OF ELECTRIC ENERGY FROM COGENERATION AND SMALL POWER PRODUCTION FACILITIES (GENERAL ORDER 214) › Section 430.30 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Avoided costs" means the incremental costs to the electric utility
				of electric energy or capacity or both which, but for the purchase from the
				qualifying facility or qualifying facilities, the utility would generate itself or
				purchase from another source ( 18 CFR 292 ).
"Avoided energy costs" are the avoided variable costs associated
				with the production of electric energy (kilowatt-hours). These costs represent the
				avoided costs of fuel and some operating and maintenance expenses or the cost of
				purchased energy. Identifiable capacity charges included in purchase power
				agreements shall not be included in the calculation of avoided energy costs.
"Avoided total costs" means the total avoided system energy and new
				capacity costs (and not the average embedded system cost of capacity) or the avoided
				cost of a capacity purchase which result from the purchase of energy and capacity
				from a qualifying facility.
"Capacity costs" are the costs associated with providing the
				capability to deliver energy; they consist primarily of the capital costs of
				facilities used to generate and transmit electricity.
"Costs of interconnection" means the costs (initial installation and
				future) of transmission, distribution, metering, service and other physical
				facilities necessary under good engineering practices to permit interconnected
				operations with a qualifying facility, plus the engineering and administrative
				expenses incurred by the utility for the installation and maintenance of such
				physical facilities, to the extent that such costs are in excess of the
				corresponding interconnection 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. Costs of interconnection shall not
				include any costs incurred in the calculations of avoided costs, and shall be
				assessed against a qualifying facility on a nondiscriminatory basis with respect to
				other customers with similar load characteristics or other cost-related
				characteristics, without regard as to whether the customer generates all or some of
				his own electricity ( 18 CFR 292 ).
"Customer" means any entity who receives service from a utility
				irrespective of its qualifying status under this Part.
"Interruptible power" means electric energy or capacity supplied by
				the utility to the qualifying facility subject to interruption by the utility under
				certain specified conditions ( 18 CFR 292 ).
"Maintenance power" means electric energy or capacity supplied by
				the utility during scheduled outages of the qualifying facility ( 18 CFR 292
				).
"Qualifying facility" means a cogeneration facility or a small power
				production facility which meets the criteria for qualification set forth in Subpart
				B of 18 CFR 292.
"Standby power" means electric energy or capacity supplied by the
				utility to replace energy ordinarily generated by a qualifying facility's own
				generation equipment during an unscheduled outage of the facility ( 18 CFR 292
				).
"Supplementary power" means electric energy or capacity supplied by
				the utility and regularly used by a qualifying facility in addition to that which
				the facility generates itself ( 18 CFR 292 ).
"System emergency" means a condition on a utility's system which is
				likely to result in imminent disruption of service to customers or is imminently
				likely to endanger life or property.