Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-10 - Electric Companies › Section 4901:1-10-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
As used in this chapter:
(A) "Advanced meter" means any electric meter
			 that meets the pertinent engineering standards using digital technology and is
			 capable of providing two-way communications with the electric utility to
			 provide usage and/or other technical data.
(B) "Advanced meter opt-out service" means a
			 service provided by an electric utility under the terms and conditions of a
			 commission-approved tariff, which allows a customer to take electric
			 distribution service using a traditional meter.
(C) "Applicant" means a person who requests
			 or makes application for service.
(D) "Commission" means the public utilities
			 commission of Ohio.
(E)
			 "Competitive retail electric service provider" or "CRES" means a provider of
			 competitive retail electric service, subject to certification under section
			 4928.08 of the Revised
			 Code.
(F) "Consolidated billing"
			 means that a customer receives a single bill for electric services provided
			 during a billing period for services from both an electric utility and a
			 competitive retail electric service provider.
(G) "Consumer" means any person who receives
			 service from an electric utility or a competitive retail electric service
			 provider.
(H) "Critical customer"
			 means any customer or consumer on a medical or life-support system who has
			 provided appropriate documentation to the electric utility that an interruption
			 of service would be immediately life-threatening.
(I) "Customer" means any person who has an
			 agreement, by contract and/or tariff with an electric utility or by contract
			 with a competitive retail electric service provider, to receive
			 service.
(J) "Customer energy usage
			 data" means data collected from a customer's meter, which is identifiable to a
			 retail customer.
(K) "Customer
			 premises" means the residence(s), building(s), or office(s) of a
			 customer.
(L) "Director of the
			 service monitoring and enforcement department" means the director of the
			 service monitoring and enforcement department of the commission or the
			 director's designee.
(M) "Electric
			 distribution utility" or "EDU" has the meaning set forth in
			 division (A)(6) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(N) "Electric light company"
			 has
			 the meaning set forth in division (A)(4) of section
			 4905.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(O) "Electric services
			 company" has the meaning set forth in division (A)(9) of
			 section 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(P) "Electric utility" as
			 used in this chapter has the meaning set forth in division (A)(11) of
			 section 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Q) "Electric utility call
			 center" means an office or department or any third party contractor of an
			 electric utility designated to receive customer calls.
(R) "Fraudulent act" means an intentional
			 misrepresentation or concealment by the customer or consumer of a material fact
			 that the electric utility relies on to its detriment. Fraudulent act does not
			 include tampering.
(S)
			 "Governmental aggregation program" means the aggregation program established by
			 the governmental aggregator with a fixed aggregation term,
			 of one to three
			 years.
(T) "Major event"
			 encompasses any calendar day when an electric utility's system average
			 interruption duration index (SAIDI) exceeds the major event day threshold using
			 the methodology outlined in section 3.5 of standard 1366-2012 adopted by the
			 institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) in "IEEE Guide for
			 Electric Power Distribution Reliability Indices." The threshold will be
			 calculated by determining the SAIDI associated with adding 2.5 standard
			 deviations to the average of the natural logarithms of the electric utility's
			 daily SAIDI performance during the most recent five-year period. For purposes
			 of this definition, the SAIDI will be determined in accordance with paragraph
			 (C)(3)(e)(iii) of rule
			 4901:1-10-11 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(U)
			 "Mercantile customer" has the meaning set forth in division (A)(19) of
			 section 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(V) "Momentary interruption"
			 means an interruption of electric service with a duration of five minutes or
			 less.
(W) "Non-jurisdictional
			 services" means services which do not meet the definition of "retail electric
			 service" set forth in division (A)(27) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(X) "Outage coordinator"
			 means the commission's service monitoring and enforcement department director
			 or the director's designee.
(Y)
			 "Person" has the meaning set forth in division (A)(24) of
			 section 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Z) "Postmark" means a mark,
			 including a date, stamped or imprinted on a piece of mail which services to
			 record the date of its mailing, which in no event will be earlier
			 than the date on which the item is actually deposited in the mail. For
			 electronic mail, postmark means the date the electronic mail was
			 transmitted.
(AA) "Renewable energy
			 credit" means the fully aggregated attributes associated with one megawatt hour
			 of electricity generated by a renewable energy resource as defined in division
			 (A)(35) of section 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(BB) "Slamming" means the
			 transfer of or requesting the transfer of a customer's competitive electric
			 service to another provider without obtaining the customer's consent.
(CC) "Staff" means the commission staff or
			 its authorized representative.
(DD)
			 "Sustained outage" means the interruption of service to a customer for more
			 than five minutes.
(EE) "Tampering"
			 means to interfere with, damage, or by-pass a utility meter, conduit, or
			 attachment with the intent to impede the correct registration of a meter or the
			 proper functions of a conduit or attachment so far as to reduce the amount of
			 utility service that is registered on or reported by the meter. Tampering
			 includes the unauthorized reconnection of a utility meter, conduit, or
			 attachment that has been disconnected by the utility.
(FF) "Time differentiated rates" means rates
			 that vary from one time period to another, such as hourly, daily, or
			 seasonally.
(GG) "Traditional
			 meter" means any meter with an analog or digital display that does not have the
			 capability to communicate with the utility using two-way
			 communications.
(HH) "Transmission
			 outage" means an outage involving facilities that would be included in rate
			 setting by the federal energy regulation commission.
(II) "Universal service fund" means a fund
			 established pursuant to section
			 4928.51 of the Revised Code, for
			 the purpose of providing funding for low-income customer assistance programs,
			 including the percentage of income payment plan program, customer education,
			 and associated administrative costs.
(JJ) "Voltage excursions" are those voltage
			 conditions that occur outside of the voltage limits as defined in the electric
			 utility's tariffs and are beyond the control of the electric utility.