Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 15 - Cogeneration and Small Power Production › Rule 199-15.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
Terms defined in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act
				  of 1978 (PURPA),  16 U.S.C. 2601, et seq., shall have the same meaning for
				  purposes of these rules as they have under PURPA, unless further defined in
				  this chapter.
"AEP facility"
means any of the
				  following:
(1) an electric production
				facility which derives 75 percent or more of its energy input from solar
				energy, wind, waste management, resource recovery, refuse-derived fuel,
				agricultural crops or residues, or wood burning;
(2) a hydroelectric facility at a
				dam;
(3) 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;
				or
(4) transmission or distribution
				facilities necessary to conduct the energy produced by the facility to the
				purchasing utility.
"Alternate energy purchase (AEP) program"
means a utility program that allows customers to contribute voluntarily to the
				  development of alternate energy in Iowa.
"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.
"Backup power"
means electric energy or
				  capacity supplied by an electric utility to qualifying facilities and AEP
				  facilities to replace energy ordinarily generated by a facility's own
				  generation equipment during an unscheduled outage of the facility.
"Commission"
means the Iowa utilities
				  commission.
"Disconnection device"
means a lockable
				  visual disconnect or other disconnection device capable of isolating,
				  disconnecting, and de-energizing the residual voltage in a distributed
				  generation facility.
"Distributed generation facility"
means a
				  qualifying facility, an AEP facility, or an energy storage facility.
"Electric meter"
means a device used by an
				  electric utility that measures and registers the integral of an electrical
				  quantity with respect to time.
"Interconnection costs"
means the reasonable
				  costs of connection, switching, metering, transmission, distribution, safety
				  provisions and administrative costs incurred by the electric utility directly
				  related to the installation and maintenance of the physical facilities
				  necessary to permit interconnected operations with qualifying facilities and
				  AEP facilities, to the extent the costs are in excess of the corresponding
				  costs which the electric utility would have incurred if it had not engaged in
				  interconnected operations, but instead generated an equivalent amount of
				  electric energy itself or purchased an equivalent amount of electric energy or
				  capacity from other sources. Interconnection costs do not include any costs
				  included in the calculation of avoided costs.
"Interruptible power"
means electric energy
				  or capacity supplied by an electric utility subject to interruption by the
				  electric utility under specified conditions.
"Maintenance power"
means electric energy or
				  capacity supplied by an electric utility during scheduled outages of qualifying
				  facilities and AEP facilities.
"Purchase"
means the purchase of electric
				  energy or capacity or both from qualifying facilities and AEP facilities by an
				  electric utility.
"Qualifying facility"
means a cogeneration
				  facility or a small power production facility which is a qualifying facility
				  under  18 CFR Part 292, Subpart B.
"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 rate, charge, or classification, and any contract pertaining to
				  the sale or purchase of electric energy or capacity.
"Sale"
means the sale of electric energy or
				  capacity or both by an electric utility to qualifying facilities and AEP
				  facilities.
"Supplementary power"
means electric energy
				  or capacity supplied by an electric utility, regularly used by qualifying
				  facilities and AEP facilities in addition to that which the facility generates
				  itself.
"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.