Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-14 - Uniform Purchased Gas Adjustment Clause › Section 4901:1-14-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
For purposes of this chapter:
(A) "Ccf" means a unit of gas equal to one
			 hundred cubic feet.
(B)
			 "Commission" means the public utilities commission of Ohio.
(C) "Commodity rate" means the portion of gas
			 costs billed by a gas or natural gas company's suppliers (expressed in dollars
			 and cents per Mcf, dekatherm, or BTU), which relates volumetrically to the cost
			 of the units of gas obtained by the company for sale to its customers. For
			 purposes of the calculations required under rule
			 4901:1-14-05 of the
			 Administrative Code, "commodity rate" means the average of the commodity rates
			 expected to be in effect during the period the new gas cost recovery rate will
			 be in effect.
(D) "Customer" means
			 each billing account of a gas or natural gas company.
(E) "Current direct cost of production" means
			 the production and gathering expenses associated with utility production
			 volumes from old wells which are included in accounts 750 through 769 of the
			 "Uniform System of Accounts for Class A and B Gas Utilities," and accounts 710,
			 711, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717, and 719 of the "Uniform System of Accounts for
			 Class C and D Gas Utilities."
(F)
			 "Demand and service charges" means the portion of gas costs billed by a gas or
			 natural gas company's suppliers or other service providers (expressed in
			 dollars and cents per Mcf, dekatherm, or BTU), which relates to the cost of
			 demand, capacity reservation or use, transportation, storage, balancing,
			 gathering and other related services which are costs to the company of
			 obtaining the gas that it sells prior to and including the physical delivery of
			 the gas to the company's own system to the extent such charges are not included
			 in the "commodity rate" as defined in paragraph (C) of this rule. For purposes
			 of the calculations required under rule
			 4901:1-14-05 of the
			 Administrative Code, "demand and service charges" mean the average of the
			 demand charges expected to be in effect during the period the new gas cost
			 recovery rate will be in effect.
(G) "Expected gas cost (EGC)" means the
			 weighted average cost of primary gas supplies, utility production from old
			 wells, and includable propane expressed in dollars and cents per Mcf and
			 determined in accordance with the appendix to rule
			 4901:1-14-05 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(H) "Gas"
			 means any vaporized fuel transported or supplied to consumers by a gas or
			 natural gas company, including, but not limited to, natural gas, synthetic gas,
			 liquefied natural gas, and propane.
(I) "Gas company" and "natural gas company"
			 have the meanings set forth in section
			 4905.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(J) "Gas costs" or "cost of
			 gas" means the cost to a gas or natural gas company of obtaining the gas which
			 it sells to its customers. The cost of gas 
								includes demand, capacity
			 reservation or use, transportation, storage, balancing, gathering, and other
			 related costs to the company for services rendered or supplies provided by
			 others prior to and including the physical delivery of the gas to the company.
			 The cost of gas does not include the cost of utility storage otherwise
			 recovered in base rates.
(K) "Gas
			 cost recovery rate (GCR)" means the quarterly update, or other periodic update
			 as approved by the commission, of the gas cost adjustment determined in
			 accordance with the appendix to rule
			 4901:1-14-05 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(L)
			 "Includable gas supplies" means primary gas supplies, includable propane, and
			 utility production volumes.
(M)
			 "Includable propane" means propane used for peak shaving purposes, and propane
			 used for volumetric purposes at the end of a supply period to avoid monetary
			 penalties.
(N) "Jurisdictional
			 sales" means total historic, forecasted, and/or weather-normalized historic
			 sales, less sales to customers under municipal ordinance rates, except sales
			 under municipal ordinances which have adopted, by reference or otherwise, rates
			 established by the commission.
(O)
			 "Mcf" means a unit of gas equal to one thousand cubic feet.
(P) "New well" is either a well where
			 drilling commenced after December 4, 1982, or an old well which is completed to
			 a different pool after December 4, 1982.
(Q) "Old well" is a well where drilling
			 commenced before December 4, 1982.
(R) "Pool" has the meaning set forth in
			 paragraph (A)(35) of rule
			 1501:9-1-01 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(S) "Primary
			 gas supplies" means historic, forecasted, and/or weather-normalized historic:
(1) Supplies of natural gas or liquefied
			 natural gas obtained from producers, interstate pipelines, brokers/marketers,
			 or other suppliers;
(2) Supplies of
			 synthetic gas purchased under agreements approved by the commission under
			 section 4905.303 of the Revised Code,
			 and other supplies of synthetic gas, except short-term supplies, purchased
			 under contracts approved by the commission;
(3) Supplies of gas obtained from other gas
			 or natural gas companies;
(4)
			 Supplies of gas, other than utility production volumes from old wells, obtained
			 from Ohio producers;
(5) Supplies
			 of gas made available to a gas or natural gas company under self-help
			 arrangements;
(6) Special purchases
			 of natural gas not included in short-term supplies; and
(7) Utility production volumes from new wells
			 provided that such volumes are priced no higher than the price currently being
			 paid by the utility to independent Ohio producers for gas from like
			 wells.