Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-27 - Certification of Governmental Aggregators and Retail Natural Gas Suppliers › Section 4901:1-27-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed
			 and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(A) "Abandonment" means to cease being a
			 retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator in this state.
(B) "Applicant" means
			 a person who files an application for certification or certification renewal
			 under this chapter.
(C) "Application form" means a form, approved by the
			 commission, that an applicant seeking certification or certification renewal as
			 a retail natural gas supplier or as a governmental aggregator shall file with
			 the commission as set forth in this chapter.
(D) "Billing or
			 collection agent" has the meaning set forth in division (I) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(E) "Commission" means the public utilities commission
			 of Ohio.
(F) "Commodity sales service" has the meaning set
			 forth in division (C) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(G) "Comparable service" has the meaning set forth in
			 division (D) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(H) "Competitive retail natural gas service" has the
			 meaning set forth in division (J) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(I) "Consumer" has the meaning set forth in division
			 (E) of section 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(J) "Contract" means an agreement between a customer
			 and retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator that specifies the
			 terms and conditions for provision of competitive retail natural gas
			 service.
(K) "Customer" means a person who contracts with or is
			 solicited by a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator for the
			 provision of a competitive retail natural gas service.
(L)
			 "Existing customer" means a person who has a contract with a retail natural gas
			 supplier or governmental aggregator for the provision of competitive retail
			 natural gas service.
(M)
								 "Gas company" means a company that meets the
			 definition of a gas company set forth in section
			 4905.03 of the Revised Code and
			 that also meets the definition of a public utility under section
			 4905.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(N) "Governmental
			 aggregator" has the meaning set forth in division (K)(1) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised Code. For
			 purposes of this chapter, "governmental aggregator" specifically excludes a
			 municipal corporation acting exclusively under Section 4 of Article XVIII, Ohio
			 Constitution, as an aggregator for the provision of competitive retail natural
			 gas service.
(O) "Mercantile
			 customer" has the meaning set forth in division (L) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(P) "Natural gas company" has
			 the meaning set forth in division (G) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Q) "Person" has the meaning
			 set forth in division (H) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(R) "Regulated sales service"
			 means the provision of natural gas commodity service to consumers at the gas
			 cost recovery rate or any alternate gas cost pricing mechanism approved by the
			 commission pursuant to Chapter 4901:1-19 of the Administrative Code.
(S) "Regulated sales service customer" means
			 a person who has an agreement by contract and/or tariff with a natural gas
			 company or gas company to receive regulated sales service.
(T) "Retail natural gas aggregation service"
			 means combining the natural gas load of multiple retail residential customers
			 or small commercial customers via an agreement with the customers for the
			 purpose of purchasing competitive retail natural gas service on an aggregated
			 basis.
(U) "Retail natural gas
			 aggregator" means a person who contracts with customers to combine the
			 customers' natural gas load for the purposes of purchasing competitive retail
			 natural gas service on an aggregated basis.
(V) "Retail natural gas brokerage service"
			 means assuming the contractual and legal responsibility for the sale and/or
			 arrangement for the supply of competitive retail natural gas service to a
			 retail customer in this state without taking title to the natural
			 gas.
(W) "Retail natural gas
			 broker" means a person who provides retail natural gas brokerage
			 service.
(X) "Retail natural gas
			 marketing service" means assuming the contractual and legal responsibility for
			 the sale and provision of competitive retail natural gas service to a retail
			 natural gas service customer in this state and having title to natural gas at
			 some point during the transaction.
(Y) "Retail natural gas marketer" means a
			 person who provides retail natural gas marketing service.
(Z) "Retail natural gas service" has the
			 meaning set forth in division (M) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(AA) "Retail natural gas
			 supplier" has the meaning set forth in division (N) of section
			 4929.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(BB) "Small commercial
			 customer" means a commercial customer which is not a mercantile customer under
			 paragraph (P) of this rule.
(CC)
								 "Staff" means
			 the commission staff.