Code of Maine Rules › 65 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › 407 - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 322 - METERING, BILLING, COLLECTIONS, AND ENROLLMENT INTERACTIONS AMONG TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES AND COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY PROVIDERS › Section 407-322-1 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A. Aggregator. "Aggregator" means an entity
				that gathers individual customers together for the purpose of purchasing
				electricity, provided such entity is not engaged in the purchase or resale of
				electricity directly with a competitive electricity provider, and provided
				further that such customers contract for electricity directly with a
				competitive electricity provider.
B. Broker. "Broker" means an entity that acts
				as an agent or intermediary for a customer in the sale and purchase of
				electricity but that does not take title to electricity, provided such entity
				is not engaged in the purchase or resale of electricity directly with a
				competitive electricity provider, and provided further that such customers
				contract for electricity directly with a competitive electricity
				provider.
C. Bulk Power System
				Administrator. "Bulk power system administrator" means the Independent System
				Operator of the New England bulk power system (ISO-NE) or an equivalent
				functional organization that carries out financial settlement with competitive
				electricity providers operating in the portion of Maine that is not in ISO-NE's
				territory.
D. Competitive
				Electricity Provider. "Competitive electricity provider" means a marketer,
				broker, aggregator, or any other entity selling electricity to the public at
				retail in Maine.
E. Customer.
				"Customer" means any person who has applied for, been accepted for or is
				receiving generation service from a competitive electricity provider for retail
				use. This term includes an applicant for generation services when the context
				addresses the process of application for generation service in this
				Chapter.
F. Customer-Specific
				Information. "Customer-specific information" is information that describes the
				usage, technical configuration or type of utility service subscribed to by a
				particular customer of a transmission and distribution utility and is available
				to the utility solely by virtue of the utility-customer relationship.
G. Consumer-owned Utility. "Consumer-owned
				utility" means any transmission and distribution utility wholly owned by its
				consumers, as described in
				 35-A M.R.S.A.
				§3201(6).
H. Current Charge. "Current charge" means an
				amount that a transmission and distribution utility or a competitive
				electricity provider has billed to a customer and whose due date has not yet
				passed.
I. Due Date. "Due date"
				means the last day a transmission and distribution or a competitive electricity
				provider bill must be paid to avoid payment of late fees or the initiation of
				collection action for a past due amount.
J. EBT Standards. "EBT Standards" means the
				standards, established by the Electronic Business Transactions Standards
				working group and adopted by rule, that govern the procedures, electronic
				protocols, and data formats for transferring data electronically among
				transmission and distribution utilities and competitive electricity
				providers.
K. Enroll. "Enroll"
				means the assignment of a customer to a competitive electricity
				provider.
L. Generation Service.
				"Generation service" means the provision of electric power to a retail consumer
				through a transmission and distribution utility but does not encompass any
				activity related to the transmission or distribution of that power.
M. Investor-Owned Utility. "Investor-owned
				utility" means a large investor-owned transmission and distribution utility or
				a small investor-owned transmission and distribution utility, as described in
				35-M.R.S.A. §3201(12) and 35-M. R.S.A. §3201(16).
N. Marketer. "Marketer" means an entity that
				as an intermediary purchases and takes title to electricity for sale to retail
				customers.
O. Notification to
				Cancel. "Notification to cancel" means notification from a competitive
				electricity provider to a transmission and distribution utility that the
				competitive electricity provider will no longer provide generation service to a
				customer.
P. Notification to
				Enroll. "Notification to enroll" means notification from a competitive
				electricity provider to a transmission and distribution utility that the
				competitive electricity provider has agreed to provide generation service to a
				customer.
Q. Past Due Charge. "Past
				due charge" means an amount that a transmission and distribution utility or a
				competitive electricity provider has billed to a customer that has not been
				paid in full by the due date of the bill.
R. Prior Competitive Electricity Provider.
				"Prior competitive electricity provider" means a competitive electricity
				provider that had provided generation service to a customer but no longer does
				so.
S. Residential and Small
				Non-Residential Customers. "Residential and Small Non-Residential Customers"
				means customers defined as residential by the terms and conditions of the
				transmission and distribution utility and non-residential customers that meet
				the availability criteria to take service under a core customer class of the
				transmission and distribution utility that does not include a demand
				charge.
T. Standard Offer Provider.
				"Standard offer provider" means an entity selected pursuant to Chapter 301 or
				by a COU pursuant to
				 35-A M.R.S.A.
				§3212 to provide all or a specified
				portion of electric generation service to consumers receiving standard offer
				service.
U. Standard Offer Service.
				"Standard offer service" means electric generation service provided to any
				electricity consumer who does not obtain electric generation service from a
				competitive electricity provider.
V. Transmission and Distribution Utility.
				"Transmission and distribution utility" means a person, its lessees, trustees,
				receivers or trustees appointed by a court, owning, controlling, operating or
				managing a transmission and distribution plant for compensation within the
				state.