New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter III - AIR RESOURCES › Subchapter A - PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AIR CONTAMINATION AND AIR POLLUTION › Part 222 - Distributed Generation Sources › Section 222.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The definitions
				  of Part 200 and Subpart 201-2 of this Title apply to this Part unless they are
				  inconsistent with the definitions in subdivision (b) of this Section.
(b) The following definitions also
				  apply to this Part:
(1) 'Compression
				  ignition'. A type of stationary internal combustion engine that is not a spark
				  ignition engine.
(2) 'Demand
				  response program'. The Emergency Demand Response Program or Special Case
				  Resources demand response programs sponsored by the New York Independent System
				  Operator or similarly designed programs sponsored by distribution utilities and
				  approved by the Public Service Commission.
(3) 'Demand response source'. A distributed
				  generation source enrolled in a demand response program.
(4) 'Demand response event'. Activation of a
				  demand response program by the New York Independent System Operator or a
				  distribution utility.
(5)
				  'Distribution utility'. A retail distributor of electricity.
(6) 'Distributed generation source'. A
				  stationary reciprocating or rotary internal combustion engine that feeds into
				  the distribution grid or produces electricity for use at the host facility or
				  both. This includes, but is not limited to, emergency power generating
				  stationary internal combustion engines and demand response sources.
(7) 'Economic dispatch source'. A distributed
				  generation source intended to provide electricity for general use to a
				  building, structure, or collection of structures in place of electricity
				  supplied by the distribution utilities. Demand response and price-responsive
				  generation sources are considered economic dispatch sources. Economic dispatch
				  sources do not include emergency generators or distributed generation sources
				  that provide electricity to power equipment or structures not served by
				  distribution utilities.
(8) 'Lean
				  burn engine'. A natural gas-fired spark ignition engine that is not a rich burn
				  engine.
(9) 'Maximum load relief'.
				  Maximum power (kilowatts) pledged by a demand response source during demand
				  response events or the maximum load the source operates at as a
				  price-responsive generation source.
(10) 'Model year'. Means either:
(i) The calendar year in which the engine was
				  originally produced, or
(ii) The
				  annual new model production period of the engine manufacturer if it is
				  different than the calendar year. This must include January 1 of the calendar
				  year for which the model year is named. It may not begin before January 2 of
				  the previous calendar year and it must end by December 31 of the named calendar
				  year.
(11)
				  'Price-responsive generation source'. A distributed generation source used to
				  provide electricity for short periods of time when the cost of electricity
				  supplied by the distribution utility is high.
(12) 'Rich burn engine'. Any four-stroke
				  spark ignited engine where the manufacturer's recommended operating air-to-fuel
				  ratio divided by the stoichiometric air-to-fuel ratio at full load conditions
				  is less than or equal to 1:1.
(13)
				  'Spark ignition'. A natural gas fueled engine or any other type of engine with
				  a spark plug (or other sparking device) and with operating characteristics
				  similar to the theoretical Otto combustion cycle. Dual-fuel engines in which a
				  liquid fuel (typically diesel fuel) is use d for compression ignition and
				  gaseous fuel (typically natural gas) is used as the primary fuel at an annual
				  average ratio of less than 2 parts diesel fuel to 100 parts total fuel on an
				  energy equivalent basis are spark ignition engines.
(14) 'Three-way catalyst emission controls'.
				  A control technology (also known as non-selective catalytic reduction) that
				  reduces NOx, volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide emissions from rich
				  burn engines.