Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 50 - Energy Conservation › Article 2 - Cogeneration and Small Power Production › 3 AAC 50.820 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in
					 3 AAC 50.750 -
					 3 AAC 50.820
(1) "avoided costs" means the incremental
				  costs to an 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 or purchase from another source;
(2) "back-up power" means electric power
				  supplied by an electric utility during an unscheduled power outage of a
				  facility to replace energy ordinarily generated by the facility's own
				  generation equipment;
(3)
				  "cogeneration" means the production of electric energy and forms of useful
				  thermal energy (such as heat or steam), employed for industrial, commercial,
				  heating, or cooling purposes, through the sequential use of energy;
(4) "detent meter" means a watt-hour meter
				  which can turn in only a forward direction and which is used to measure the
				  number of kilowatt-hours sold to a qualifying facility by an electric
				  utility;
(5) "electric power" means
				  electric energy or capacity, or both;
(6) "firm power" means electric power
				  supplied to the electric utility in predetermined and reliable quantities at
				  specific times and intervals;
(7)
				  "interruptible power" means electric power supplied by an electric utility
				  subject to interruption by the electric utility under specified
				  conditions;
(8) "maintenance power"
				  means electric power supplied by an electric utility during scheduled power
				  outages of the qualifying facility;
(9) repealed 3/11/2016;
(10) "parallel operation" means a method of
				  interconnection which enables a qualifying facility to generate electric power
				  to meet its electrical consumption needs first and to automatically transmit
				  any surplus electric power to the electric utility, and which also enables the
				  qualifying facility to automatically purchase power from the electric utility
				  if the qualifying facility cannot generate enough power to meet its electrical
				  demands;
(11) "qualifying facility"
				  has the meaning given in 18
				  C.F.R. 292.101(b)(1),
				  revised as of April 1, 2015, and adopted by reference;
(12) "supplementary power" means electric
				  energy or capacity supplied by an electric utility, regularly used by a
				  qualifying facility in addition to that which the facility generates
				  itself;
(13) "system emergency"
				  means a condition on a utility's system which is likely to result in imminent
				  significant disruption of service to customers or is imminently likely to
				  endanger life or property;
(14)
				  "design capacity" means the generator's nameplate rating measured in
				  kilowatts.
A copy of  18 C.F.R. Part 292, Subpart B, mentioned in
						3 AAC 50.820(11) is available for
						inspection at the offices of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska as specified
						in 3 AAC 48.010(a).
As of Register 170 (July 2004), the regulations attorney
						made technical revisions under
						AS
						44.62.125(b)(6) to correct
						authority citations for
						3 AAC 50.820.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151