Administrative Rules of Montana › Department 38 - PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION › Chapter 38.5 - UTILITY DIVISION › Subchapter 38.5.84 - Small Generator Interconnection › Rule 38.5.8401 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 13, July 5, 2024
Terminology used in these rules has the following meanings,
				  except where the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Applicant" means a person or entity that
				has filed an application to interconnect a customer-generator facility to an
				EDS. An applicant may include a third party who owns and operates a small
				generator facility under agreement with a customer or leases a small generator
				facility to a customer.
(2) "Area
				Network" means a type of electric system served by multiple transformers
				interconnected in an electrical network circuit.
(3) "Commission" means the Montana Public
				Service Commission.
(4) "Customer"
				means any entity connected to the utility system for the purpose of receiving
				electric power from the EDS.
(5) "
				Customer-generator" means a customer that generates electricity, typically on
				the customer's side of the meter.
(6) "Electric Distribution System" or "EDS"
				(i) means the infrastructure constructed and maintained by an EDC. (ii)
				Electric Distribution System has the same meaning as the term Area EPS, as
				defined in 3.1.6.1 of IEEE Standard 1547-2003.
(7) "Electric Distribution Company" or "EDC"
				means an electric utility that distributes electricity to end users within
				Montana and is subject to regulation by the commission.
(8) "Export" means power flows past the point
				of interconnection onto the EDS.
(9) "Good Standing" means a customer's
				account is not in arrears.
(10)
				"IEEE" means the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
(11) "IEEE Standards" means the standards
				published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
(12) "Interconnect" means to connect a
				utility customer's generator to the EDS.
(13) "Interconnection" is the result of
				connecting a utility customer's generator to the electric distribution
				company's electric distribution system.
(14) "Interconnection Customer" means an
				applicant that has entered into an interconnection agreement with an EDC to
				interconnect a small generator facility and has interconnected that small
				generator facility.
(15)  "Line
				Section" means the portion of a radial distribution circuit to which an
				applicant seeks to interconnect and is bounded by automatic sectionalizing
				devices or the end of a distribution line.
(16) "Nameplate Capacity" means the maximum
				rated output of a generator, prime mover, or other electric power production
				equipment under specific conditions designated by the manufacturer and is
				usually indicated on a nameplate physically attached to the power production
				equipment.
(17) "Nationally
				Recognized Testing Laboratory" or "NRTL" means a testing laboratory that is
				recognized by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration
				to test and certify interconnection equipment pursuant to the relevant codes
				and standards.
(18) "Premises"
				means the customer-generator's service address that is identified in a
				utility's billing system and that, in the case of net metering systems, is
				limited to one net metering system, with a maximum nameplate capacity of 50 kW,
				for each classification of electric service that is provided by the utility at
				that service address.
(19) "Radial
				Distribution Circuit" means a circuit configuration in which independent
				feeders branch out radially from a common source of supply. From the standpoint
				of a utility system, the area described is between the generating source or
				intervening substations and the customer's electric service entrance equipment.
				In a radial distribution system, power flows in one direction from the utility
				to the load.
(20) "Small Generator
				Facility" means an energy resource(s) for the production, or storage and
				production and/or storage of electricity that has an aggregate nameplate
				capacity that does not exceed 10 MW, and is designed to operate in parallel
				with the electric distribution system.
AUTH:
					 69-3-103,
					 MCA; IMP:
					 69-3-102,
					 MCA