California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 3 - Air Resources › Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board › Subchapter 10 - Climate Change › Article 4 - Regulations to Achieve Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions › Subarticle 3.1 - Regulation for Reducing Sulfur Hexafluoride Emissions from Gas Insulated Switchgear › Section 95351 - Definitions and Acronyms

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) For
						the purposes of this subarticle, the following definitions apply:
"Active Gas-Insulated Equipment" or "Active GIE" means
						  GIE that is non-hermetically sealed and is connected through busbars or cables
						  to an electrical power system or that is fully-charged, ready for service, and
						  being prepared for connection to the electrical power system. This does not
						  include spare GIE.
"Acquire" means to take possession and/or ownership of
						  an item or to obtain an item through lease. Equipment under temporary ownership
						  by the manufacturer during transport and equipment transported through
						  California that will never be used in California are not considered to have
						  been "acquired."
"ARB Identification Number" or "ARB ID" means the
						  unique identification number assigned to each GIE owner that reports GHG
						  emissions to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) through the California
						  Electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (Cal e-GGRT).
"Blank-off Pressure" is the lowest achievable pressure
						  of a GIE device or gas cart, as recommended by the manufacturer.
"Carbon Dioxide Equivalent" or
						  "CO2e" means the amount of CO2
						  emissions equivalent to the emissions of a given quantity of another GHG when
						  calculated using the individual global warming potentials as specified in the
						  "global warming potential" definition of this subarticle.
"Circuit Breaker" means a device designed to
						  automatically interrupt high currents in order to protect electrical equipment
						  from damage.
"Covered Gas Container" means a gas container
						  containing or designed to contain covered insulating gas.
"Covered Insulating Gas" means an insulating gas with a
						  global warming potential (GWP) greater than one. When the amount of covered
						  insulating gas must be calculated for gas blends, it must be calculated
						  pursuant to section
						  95354(m).
"Covered Insulating Gas at Activation" means the value
						  calculated in section
						  95354(a)(10)(A)6..
						  If this value is not calculated, this term means the nameplate capacity of the
						  GIE device.
"Data Year" means the calendar year for which a GIE
						  owner must submit an annual GHG emissions data report.
"Day" means one calendar day.
"Designated Representative" means the person
						  responsible for certifying, signing, and submitting the GHG emissions data
						  report.
"Electrical Power System" means the combination of
						  electrical generators (i.e., power plants), transmission and distribution
						  lines, equipment, circuits, and transformers used to generate and transport
						  electricity from the generator to consumption areas or to adjacent electrical
						  power systems.
"Emergency Event" means a situation arising from a
						  sudden and unforeseen event including, but not limited to, an earthquake,
						  flood, or fire.
"Executive Officer" means the Executive Officer of the
						  California Air Resources Board (CARB) or her or his designee.
"Failure" means the sudden and unexpected, or imminent,
						  failure of a GIE device that requires replacement of the device.
"Flow meter" means a measurement device consisting of
						  one or more individual components that is designed to measure the bulk fluid
						  movement of liquid or gas through a piped system at a designated point. Bulk
						  fluid movement can be measured with a variety of devices in units of mass flow
						  or volume.
"Gas Cart" means any device designed to transfer
						  insulating gas into or out of GIE, with the gas coming from or going into a
						  permanent or removable gas container or the gas cart itself. A gas cart may
						  utilize gas containers, but gas containers do not fall within the definition of
						  gas cart.
"Gas Container" means a single vessel containing or
						  designed to contain a gas used as an insulating gas in GIE. This includes
						  pressurized cylinders, any container that can be removed from a gas cart, or
						  other containers, but does not include GIE or the gas cart itself.
"Gas-Insulated Equipment" or "GIE" means all electrical
						  power equipment, regardless of location and insulating medium (e.g., solid
						  dielectric, vacuum, SF6, alternative gas), that provide
						  insulating and/or interrupting (arc quenching) functions related to operation
						  of electrical power systems. GIE include, but are not limited to, switchgear,
						  switches, circuit switchers, coupling capacitor potential devices,
						  gas-insulated substations, and circuit breakers. This definition includes
						  hermetically sealed GIE and non-hermetically sealed GIE.
"Gas-Insulated Equipment Characteristics" or "GIE
						  Characteristics" means, for GIE whose voltage capacity is 38 kV or less, the
						  combination of attributes listed in Table 1 (configuration, voltage capacity
						  (kV), and short-circuit current rating (kA)) of section
						  95352. For GIE whose voltage
						  capacity is greater than 38 kV, this means the combination of attributes listed
						  in Table 2 (voltage capacity (kV) and short-circuit current rating (kA)) of
						  section 95352.
"Gas-Insulated Equipment Owner" or "GIE Owner" means
						  the person who owns GIE that use covered insulating gas. "GIE owner" excludes
						  temporary ownership by the equipment manufacturer during GIE transport for
						  purposes of installation at a customer's site or repair. A GIE owner may be a
						  limited liability company, subsidiary, parent company, or other entity that is
						  an owner of the GIE that use covered insulating gas.
"Global Warming Potential" or "GWP" means the ratio of
						  the time-integrated radiative forcing from the instantaneous release of one
						  unit of a trace substance relative to that of one unit of a reference gas, in
						  this case, carbon dioxide. The GWP values for this subarticle are as specified
						  in Table A-1 of Subpart A of Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part
						  98 as published in the Federal Register on December 11, 2014, which is hereby
						  incorporated by reference. The GWP of Novec-4710 shall be the default GWP for
						  "other fluorinated GHGs" (2,000) as listed in Table A-1 of Subpart A of Title
						  40 CFR Part 98 as published to the Federal Register on December 11, 2014.
						  Reporting of Novec 5110 is not required because the default GWP in Table A-1
						  (Subpart A of Title 40 CFR Part 98 as published to the Federal Register on
						  December 11, 2014) for a compound of its type is 1.
"Greenhouse Gas" or "GHG" means
						  CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, SF6,
						  hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and other fluorinated GHGs or GHG groups
						  included in Table A-1 of Subpart A of Title 40 CFR Part 98 as published in the
						  Federal Register on December 11, 2014, which is hereby incorporated by
						  reference.
"Hermetically Sealed Gas-Insulated Equipment" or
						  "Hermetically Sealed GIE" means GIE that are pre-charged with covered
						  insulating gas, sealed at the factory, and designed by the manufacturer to not
						  be fill-able by the GIE owner or a third-party designee.
"Insulating Gas" means the gas used in GIE to provide
						  dielectric insulation and/or to interrupt electrical currents.
"Nameplate Capacity" means the design capacity of the
						  insulating gas specified by the manufacturer for optimal performance of a GIE
						  device. Nameplate capacity may be found on the nameplate attached to the GIE
						  device, may be stated within the manufacturer's official product
						  specifications, or may be the value calculated by the GIE owner pursuant to
						  section 95357.2, if applicable.
"NIST-Traceable Standards" means national, traceable
						  measurement standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and
						  Technology (NIST).
"Non-Hermetically Sealed Gas-Insulated Equipment" or
						  "Non-Hermetically Sealed GIE" means GIE that contain a covered insulating gas
						  and are designed by the manufacturer to be fillable by the GIE owner or a
						  third-party designee.
"Person" shall have the same meaning as defined in
						  Health and Safety Code section
						  39047.
"Purchase" means executing an agreement between the
						  buyer and the seller to acquire a product such that any reversal on behalf of
						  the buyer or the seller could result in a breach of the agreement and/or
						  trigger cancellation or termination charges.
"Replacement Parts" are interchangeable components used
						  to repair a GIE device.
"Spare GIE" are GIE that have been acquired by the GIE
						  owner and are intended for use by the GIE owner, but are not being used as
						  active GIE or being prepared for connection to the electrical power system
						  (e.g., they are in storage).
"Sulfur Hexafluoride Gas-Insulated Equipment" or
						  "SF6 Gas-Insulated Equipment" or
						  "SF6 GIE" means GIE configured to use
						  SF6 as the insulating gas.
"Tare weight" means the weight of an empty gas
						  container that when subtracted from the gross weight yields the amount of gas
						  in the gas container.
"Voltage Capacity" means the maximum voltage within
						  which the manufacturer specifies that a GIE device should operate. This value
						  is often reflected on the GIE nameplate as "Rated Voltage."
(b) For the purposes of this subarticle, the
						following acronyms apply:
"ARB" or "CARB" means the California Air Resources
						  Board.
"CFR" means the Code of Federal Regulations.
"CO2" means carbon
						  dioxide.
"CO2e" means carbon dioxide
						  equivalent.
"GHG" means greenhouse gas.
"GIE" means gas-insulated equipment.
"GWP" means global warming potential.
"kA" means kiloamperes.
"kV" means kilovolts.
"MT" means metric tons.
"MTCO2e" means metric tons of
						  carbon dioxide equivalent.
"NIST" means National Institute of Standards and
						  Technology.
"SF6" means sulfur
						  hexafluoride.
1. New
						  section filed 2-2-2011; operative 2-2-2011 pursuant to Government Code section
						  11343.4
						  (Register 2011, No. 5).
2. Amendment of section heading, section and
						  NOTE filed 12-30-2021; operative 1-1-2022 pursuant to Government Code section
						  11343.4(b)(3)
						  (Register 2021, No. 53). (Filing deadline specified in Government Code section
						  11349.3(a)
						  extended 60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order N-40-20 and an additional
						  60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order
						  N-71-20.)
Note: Authority cited: Sections
							 38510,
							 38560,
							 38580,
							 39600
							 and
							 39601,
							 Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections
							 38560,
							 39600
							 and
							 39601,
							 Health and Safety Code.