Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 41 - Ratemaking Principles Proceeding › Rule 199-41.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Affiliate"
means a party that directly, or
				  indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or
				  is under common control with a rate-regulated public utility.
"AFUDC"
means allowance for funds used during construction.
"Alternate energy production facility"
means any or all of the
				  following:
1. A solar, wind turbine, waste management, resource
				  recovery, refuse-derived fuel, agricultural crops or residues, or woodburning
				  facility.
2. Land, systems, buildings, or improvements that are located
				  at the project site and are necessary or convenient to the construction,
				  completion, or operation of the facility.
3. Transmission or distribution facilities necessary to
				  conduct the energy produced by the facility to users located at or near the
				  project site.
A facility which is a qualifying facility under 18 CFR Part
				  292, Subpart B, is not precluded from being an alternate energy production
				  facility under this chapter.
"Baseload generation"
refers to generating
				  units designed for normal operation to serve all or part of the minimum load of
				  the system on an around-the-clock basis. These units are operated to maximize
				  system mechanical and thermal efficiency and minimize system operating
				  costs.
"Combined-cycle combustion turbine"
means an
				  electric generating technology in which the efficiency of electric generation
				  is increased by using otherwise lost waste heat exiting from one or more
				  combustion turbines. The exiting heat is routed to a boiler or to a heat
				  recovery steam generator for utilization by a steam turbine in the production
				  of electricity.
"Control"
means the possession, direct or
				  indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
				  policies of an enterprise through ownership, by contract or otherwise.
"Emission allowance"
means an authorization,
				  allocated by the federal Environmental Protection Agency under the Acid Rain
				  Program, to emit up to one ton of sulfur dioxide during or after a specified
				  calendar year.
"Facility"
means a facility for which
				  advance ratemaking principles may be sought pursuant to Iowa Code section
				  476.53(3)
"a."
The term includes energy storage systems located at the
				  site of an alternate energy production facility.
"kWh"
means kilowatt-hour.
"Opportunity sales"
means sales of
				  electricity from a particular facility at market price after all contracted and
				  firm transactions have been met.
"Repowering"
means either the complete
				  dismantling and replacement of generation equipment at an existing project site
				  or the installation of new parts and equipment to an existing alternate energy
				  production facility in order to increase energy production, reduce load,
				  increase service capacity, improve project reliability, or extend the useful
				  life of the facility.
"Utility"
means either a rate-regulated
				  electric public utility selling to retail customers in Iowa or a rate-regulated
				  public utility acquiring a water, sanitary sewage, or storm water
				  utility.