Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 410 - STANDARDS OF SERVICE FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES AND ALTERNATIVE RETAIL ELECTRIC SUPPLIERS › Subpart A - GENERAL › Section 410.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Acceptance testing" means the approval of a group of meters based
				  on statistical testing procedures.
"Act" means the Public Utilities Act [220 ILCS 5 ].
"Alternative retail electric supplier" or "ARES" means the same as
				  that term is defined in Section 16-102 of the Act [220 ILCS
				  5/16-102 ].
"Answer time" means a measurement from the point the last digit of
				  the entity's telephone number is dialed or, if a menu-driven system is used, from
				  the point the last menu digit is dialed by the subscriber and the call is answered
				  by the entity.
"Applicant" means anyone who requests a line extension from an
				  entity providing distribution services.
"Average error" means the difference between 100% and the average
				  percent registration as defined in Section
				  410.150(d).
"Billing multiplier" means the number by which a meter register
				  reading is multiplied to obtain actual usage data. The billing multiplier shall
				  include the transformer multiplier and meter multiplier, if applicable.
"Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission.
"Commission referee test" means the accuracy test of any
				  customer's electric meter made in the presence of one or more members of Commission
				  Staff.
"Complaint" means an objection made to an entity, by a customer or
				  another entity, as to its charges, facilities or service, the disposal of which
				  complaint requires investigation or analysis.
"Creep" means a continuous apparent accumulation of energy in a
				  meter with voltage applied and the load terminals open circuited.
"Customer" has the same meaning as "retail customer."
"Demand" means the electric consumption at the point of delivery
				  measured over a specified interval of time in order to estimate the instantaneous
				  electric load.
"Deposit" means an amount paid by an applicant for service to an
				  entity providing distribution services that is intended to cover any line extension
				  expenses that exceed the free limits allowed.
"Electric cooperative" means the same as that term is defined in
				  Section 3.4 of the Electric Supplier Act [220 ILCS 30/3.4
				  ].
"Electric utility" means the same as that term is defined in
				  Section 16-102 of the Act [220 ILCS
				  5/16-102 ].
"Entity" means each electric utility while providing services
				  within its service area, each electric utility while providing electric power and
				  energy outside its service area, any ARES providing services subject to this Part,
				  and any electric cooperative or municipal system but only when it provides services
				  as an ARES outside its service territory.
"Instrument transformer" means a transformer used for metering
				  that reproduces in its secondary circuit, in a definite and known proportion, the
				  voltage or current of its primary circuit, with the phase relation substantially
				  preserved.
"Meter multiplier" means the number (other than 1) by which the
				  meter register reading is multiplied to obtain meter data not adjusted for the
				  effect of instrument transformation on the calculated amount of actual usage.
"Meter shop" means a facility containing equipment used by an
				  entity for determining the accuracy of meters.
"Metering service" means the performance of functions related to
				  the provision, installation, testing, maintenance, repair and reading of electric
				  meters used for billing of retail customers and maintaining meter usage data as well
				  as the maintenance and management of meter information and meter data with respect
				  to those meters.
"Municipal system" means any public utility owned and operated by
				  any political subdivision or municipal corporation of the State of Illinois, or
				  owned by such and operated by its lessees or agents.
"Phase-shifting transformer" means an assembly of one or more
				  transformers intended to be connected to a poly-phase circuit so as to provide
				  voltages in the proper phase relations for energizing metering equipment.
"Point of delivery" means the point at which the entity providing
				  distribution facilities connects its lines or equipment to the lines or facilities
				  owned or rented by the customer, without regard to the location or ownership of
				  transformers, substations or meters, unless otherwise provided for by written
				  contract or tariffs.
"Portable standards" means instruments (e.g., watt-hour meters,
				  voltmeters, and ammeters) that are used outside the meter shop to test customer
				  meters.
"Reference standards" means instruments (e.g., watt-hour meters,
				  voltmeters, and ammeters) that are used only for verifying the accuracy of working
				  or portable standards, and whose accuracy is traceable back to the national standard
				  maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology or its
				  successor.
"Retail customer" means the same as that term is defined in
				  Section 16-102 of the Act [220 ILCS 5/16-102].
"Service watt-hour meter" means an electricity meter used for
				  billing retail customers and maintaining meter usage data that measures and
				  registers the integral, with respect to time, of the real power that flows in the
				  circuit to which the meter is connected. This also includes meters that measure
				  demand in watts or volt-amperes.
"Test amps" means the electrical current used during meter
				  accuracy testing as designated by the manufacturer and displayed on the
				  meter.
"Transformer multiplier" means the product of the current
				  transformer ratio multiplied by the potential transformer ratio when instrument
				  transformers are part of a metering installation.
"Var-hour meter" means an electricity meter that measures and
				  registers the integral, with respect to time, of the reactive power of the circuit
				  in which it is connected. This includes meters that measure demand in vars.
"Working standards" means instruments (e.g., test benches and
				  demand boards) that are used in meter shops to test the accuracy of customer
				  meters.