Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 39 - UTILITIES › Part 3 - RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICE › Subpart 2 - SPECIAL RULES - ELECTRICITY › Chapter 29 - SPECIAL RULE FOR COGENERATION & SMALL POWER PRODUCTION › Rule 39-3-2-29

Current through June 25, 2024
SECTION 100. DEFINITIONS
1. GENERAL RULE Terms defined in the Public
				  Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) shall have the same meaning for
				  purposes of this rule as they have under PURPA, unless further defined in this
				  rule.
2. DEFINITIONS The following
				  definitions apply for purposes of this rule.
a. "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, such
				  utility would generate itself or purchase from another source.
b. "Back-up power" means electric energy or
				  capacity supplied by an electric utility to replace energy ordinarily generated
				  by a qualifying facility's own generation equipment during an unscheduled
				  outage of the qualifying facility.
c. "Commission" means the Mississippi Public
				  Service Commission.
d.
				  "Interconnection costs" means the reasonable costs of connection, switching,
				  metering, transmission, distribution, safety provisions and administrative
				  costs actually incurred by the electric utility directly related to the
				  installation and maintenance of the physical facilities necessary to permit
				  interconnected operations with a qualifying facility.
e. "Interruptible power" means electric
				  energy or capacity supplied by an electric utility subject to interruption by
				  the electric utility under specified conditions.
f. "Long-term contract" means a contract
				  which is for a term greater than one year.
g. "Maintenance power" means electric energy
				  or capacity supplied by an electric utility to a qualifying facility during
				  scheduled outages of the qualifying facility.
h. "New qualifying facility capacity" means
				  electric capacity of a qualifying facility, construction of which was commenced
				  on or after November 9, 1978.
i.
				  "Purchase" means the purchase of electric energy or capacity or both from a
				  qualifying facility by an electric utility.
j. "Qualifying facility" means a cogeneration
				  facility or a small power production facility which is a qualifying facility
				  under Subpart B of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Regulations under
				  Section 201 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 as in effect
				  on the effective date of this rule.
k. "Rate" means any price, rate, charge, or
				  classification made, demanded, observed or received with respect to the sale or
				  purchase of electric energy or capacity, or any rule, regulation, or practice
				  respecting any such rate, charge, or classification, and any contract
				  pertaining to the sale or purchase of electric energy or capacity.
l. "Sale" means the sale of electric energy
				  or capacity or both by an electric utility to a qualifying facility.
m. "Supplementary power" means electric
				  energy or capacity supplied by an electric utility and regularly used by a
				  qualifying facility in addition to that which the facility generates
				  itself.
n. "System emergency" means
				  a condition on a utility's system which is likely to result in imminent
				  significant disruption of service to the utility's customers or is imminently
				  likely to endanger life or property.