Arizona Administrative Code › Title 14 - PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES REGULATION › Chapter 2 - CORPORATION COMMISSION - FIXED UTILITIES › Article 23 - NET METERING › Section R14-2-2302 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
For purposes of this Article, the following definitions apply
				  unless the context requires otherwise:
1. "Avoided Costs" means the incremental costs to an Electric
				  Utility for electric energy or capacity or both which, but for the purchase
				  from the Net Metering Facility, such utility would generate itself or purchase
				  from another source.
2. "Biomass" means any raw or processed plant-derived organic
				  matter available on a renewable basis, including:
a. Dedicated energy crops and trees,
b. Agricultural food and feed crops,
c. Agricultural crop wastes and residues,
d. Wood wastes and residues, including:
i. Landscape waste.
ii. Right-of-way tree trimmings.
iii. Small diameter forest thinnings that are 12 inches in
				  diameter or less.
e. Dead and downed forest products,
f. Aquatic plants,
g. Animal wastes,
h. Other vegetative waste materials,
i. Non-hazardous plant matter waste material that is
				  segregated from other waste,
j. Forest-related resources such as:
i. Harvesting and mill residue.
ii. Pre-commercial thinnings.
iii. Slash.
iv. Brush.
k. Miscellaneous waste such as:
i. Waste pallets,
ii. Crates,
iii. Dunnage, or
l. Recycled paper fibers that are no longer suitable for
				  recycled paper production, but not including:
i. Painted, treated, or pressurized wood;
ii. Wood contaminated with plastics or metals;
iii. Tires; or
iv. Recyclable post-consumer waste paper.
3. "Biogas" means gases that are derived from:
a. Plant-derived organic matter,
b. Agricultural food and feed matter,
c. Wood wastes,
d. Aquatic plants,
e. Animal wastes,
f. Vegetative wastes,
g. Wastewater treatment facilities using anaerobic digestion,
				  or
h. Municipal solid waste through:
i. A digester process,
ii. An oxidation process, or
iii. Other gasification process.
4. "Combined Heat and Power" or "CHP" (also known as
				  cogeneration) means a system that generates electricity and useful thermal
				  energy in a single, integrated system such that the useful power output of the
				  facility plus one-half the useful thermal energy output during any 12-month
				  period must be no less than 42.5 percent of the total energy input of fuel to
				  the facility.
5. "Commission" means the Arizona Corporation
				  Commission.
6. "Electric Utility" or "Utility" means an electric
				  distribution company that constructs, operates, and maintains the electrical
				  distribution system for the receipt and delivery of power.
7. "Electric Utility Customer" or "Customer" means an end-use
				  retail Customer served under a Utility's rate schedule.
8. "Fuel Cell" means a device that converts the chemical
				  energy of a fuel directly into electricity without intermediate combustion or
				  thermal cycles. For purposes of these Net Metering rules, the source of the
				  chemical reaction must be derived from Renewable Resources.
9. "Geothermal" means heat from within the earth's
				  surface.
10. "Hydroelectric" means the kinetic energy derived from
				  moving water.
11. "Net Metering" means service to an Electric Utility
				  Customer under which electric energy generated by or on behalf of that Electric
				  Utility Customer from a Net Metering Facility and delivered to the Utility's
				  local distribution facilities may be used to offset electric energy provided by
				  the Electric Utility to the Electric Utility Customer during the applicable
				  billing period.
12. "Net Metering Customer" means any Arizona Customer who
				  chooses to take electric service in the manner described in the definition of
				  Net Metering in subsection (11) and under the Net Metering tariff, as described
				  in
				  R14-2-2307.
13. "Net Metering Facility" means a facility for the
				  production of electricity that:
a. Is operated by or on behalf of a Net Metering Customer and
				  is located on the Net Metering Customer's premises;
b. Is intended primarily to provide part or all of the Net
				  Metering Customer's requirements for electricity;
c. Uses Renewable Resources, a Fuel Cell, or CHP to generate
				  electricity;
d. Has a generating capacity less than or equal to 125% of
				  the Net Metering Customer's total connected load, or in the absence of customer
				  load data, capacity less than or equal to the Customer's electric service drop
				  capacity; and
e. Is interconnected with and can operate in parallel and in
				  phase with an Electric Utility's existing distribution system.
14. "Renewable Resources" means natural resources that can be
				  replenished by natural processes, including:
a. Biogas,
b. Biomass,
c. Geothermal,
d. Hydroelectric,
e. Solar, or
f. Wind.
15. "Solar" means radiation or heat from the Earth's sun that
				  produces electricity from a device or system designed for that purpose.
16. "Wind" means energy derived from wind movement across the
				  earth's surface that produces electricity from a device or system designed for
				  that purpose.