Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 940 CMR - OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL › Title 940 CMR 19.00 - Retail Marketing And Sale Of Electricity › Section 19.03 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
Competitive Generation Service
- the
				generation or procurement of electricity for a consumer by a competitive
				supplier, at a price which is not regulated by the Department.
Competitive Generation Service Price
-
				the price charged to a consumer for competitive generation service.
Competitive Supplier
- a retail seller
				of electricity whose price to a consumer is not regulated by the Department of
				Telecommunications and Energy and which is not a municipal light department or
				a distribution company.
Consumer
- any person or entity that
				is an end-user or prospective end-user of electricity purchased or to be
				purchased not for resale from a retail seller of electricity.
Default Generation Service
- the
				service provided by the distribution company to a consumer who is not receiving
				either standard offer generation service or competitive generation
				service.
Delivered Price
- the total price a
				consumer will pay for electricity; the total of the generation price, the
				distribution price and all other lawful charges.
Department
- the Massachusetts
				Department of Telecommunications and Energy (formerly the Department of Public
				Utilities).
Distribution Company
- a business
				entity, which is not a competitive seller of electricity, engaging in the
				distribution of electricity at retail or owning, operating, or controlling
				distribution facilities; provided, however, a distribution company shall not
				include any entity that owns or operates plant or equipment used to produce
				electricity, steam, and chilled water, or any affiliate engaged solely in the
				provision of such electricity, steam, and chilled water, where the electricity
				produced by such entity or its affiliate is primarily for the benefit of
				hospitals and nonprofit educational institutions, and where such plant or
				equipment was in operation prior to January l, 1986.
Distribution Price
- the price, as
				allowed by the Department of Telecommunications and Energy, to be charged by
				the distribution company for distribution service.
Distribution Service
- the delivery of
				electricity to the consumer by the Distribution Company over lines that operate
				at a voltage level typically equal to or greater than 110 volts and less than
				69,000 volts.
Electricity. or Electricity Products and
				Services
- the commodity of electric power, or the directly
				related products and services formerly offered only by distribution
				companies.
Electricity Information Label
- the
				graphic mechanism for informational disclosure as required by
				220 CMR
				11.06.
Generation
- the act or process of
				converting one form of energy or matter into electricity; also the quantity of
				electricity so produced.
Public Aggregator
- a municipality or
				group of municipalities that groups interested electricity consumers within its
				municipal boundaries to facilitate or otherwise arrange the purchase and sale
				of electricity pursuant to M.G.L. c. 164, § 134.
Retail Seller of Electricity
- any
				business, person or entity selling, offering to sell, arranging for the sale
				of, or engaged to market electricity or related products or services to
				consumers, including but not limited to all entities which are regulated, or
				which are required to be licensed, by the Department for these purposes.
Standard Offer Generation Service
-
				the service provided by the distribution company for a term of seven years
				after March 1, 1998, in accordance with
				220 CMR
				11.04(9).