Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-21 - Competitive Retail Electric Service Providers › Section 4901:1-21-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed
			 and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in chapter:
(A) "Aggregation" means combining the
			 electric load of multiple retail customers via an agreement with the customers
			 or formation of a governmental aggregation pursuant to section
			 4928.20 of the Revised Code for
			 the purpose of purchasing retail electric generation service on an aggregated
			 basis.
(B) "Aggregator" means a
			 person, certified by the commission, who contracts with customers to combine
			 the customers' electric load for the purpose of purchasing retail electric
			 generation service on an aggregated basis.
(C) "Billing and collection agent"
			 
								has the same meaning
			 as set forth in division (A)(2) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(D) "Biomass power" means a
			 renewable generation resource that is primarily derived from the combustion of
			 organic matter. Biomass fuels may be solid, liquid, or gas and are derived from
			 feedstocks. Examples of such feedstocks include, but are not limited to:
			 agricultural crops and residues, industrial wood and logging residues, farm
			 animal wastes, the organic portion of municipal solid waste, and methane gas
			 from landfills.
(E) "Commission"
			 means the public utilities commission of Ohio.
(F) "Competitive retail electric service"
			 (CRES) 
								has the same meaning
			 as set forth in division (A)(4) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised Code, and
			 includes the services provided by an electric services company, retail electric
			 generation providers, power marketers, power brokers, aggregators, and
			 governmental aggregators.
(G)
			 "Complaint" means any customer/consumer contact when such contact necessitates
			 follow-up by or with the supplier of electric service or electric utility to
			 resolve a point of contention.
(H)
			 "Consumer" means a person who uses CRES.
(I) "Contract" means an agreement between a
			 customer and an electric services company that specifies the terms and
			 conditions for provision of CRES or services.
(J) "Certified electric services company"
			 means a person or entity, under certification by the commission, who supplies
			 or offers to supply CRES. This term does not apply to an electric distribution
			 utility in its provision of standard offer generation service.
(K) "Customer" means a person who contracts
			 with or is solicited by a CRES provider for the provision of CRES.
(L) "Customer energy usage data" means data
			 collected from a customer's meter, which is identifiable to a retail
			 customer.
(M) "Deposit" means a sum
			 of money a CRES provider collects from a customer as a precondition for
			 initiating service.
(N) "Direct
			 solicitation" means face-to-face solicitation of a customer initiated by a
			 certified electric services company at a place other than the normal place of
			 business of the provider.
(O)
			 "Distribution service" means the physical delivery of electricity to consumers
			 through facilities provided by an electric distribution utility.
(P) "Electric cooperative"
			 
								has the same meaning
			 as set forth in division (A)(5) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Q) "Electric distribution
			 utility" 
								has the same meaning
			 as set forth in division (A)(6) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(R) "Electric generation
			 service" means retail electric generation service.
(S) "Electric utility"
			 has
			 the same meaning as
			 set forth in division (A)(11) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(T) "Environmental disclosure
			 data" means both generation resource mix and environmental
			 characteristics.
(U) "Governmental
			 aggregation program" means the aggregation program established by the
			 governmental aggregator with a fixed aggregation term, which shall be a period
			 of not less than one year and no more than three years.
(V) "Governmental aggregator"
			 
								has the same meaning
			 as set forth in division (A)(13) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(W) "Mercantile customer"
			 
								has the same meaning
			 as set forth in division (A)(19) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(X) "Net metering"
			 has
			 the same meaning as
			 set forth in division (A)(31) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Y) "OCC" means the Ohio
			 consumers' counsel.
(Z) "Other
			 sources" means known electric energy generation resources that cannot
			 reasonably be included within any of the specific fuel categories.
(AA) "Person" has the
			 same meaning as set
			 forth in division (A)(24) of section
			 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(BB) "Postmark" means a mark,
			 including a date, stamped or imprinted on a piece of mail which serves to
			 record the date of its mailing, which in no event 
								can 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.
(CC) "Power broker"
			 means a person certified by the commission, who provides power
			 brokerage.
(DD) "Power brokerage"
			 means assuming the contractual and legal responsibility for the sale and/or
			 arrangement for the supply of retail electric generation service to a retail
			 customer in this state without taking title to the electric power
			 supplied.
(EE) "Power marketer"
			 means a person, certified by the commission, who provides power marketing
			 services.
(FF) "Power marketing"
			 means assuming the contractual and legal responsibility for the sale and
			 provision of retail electric generation service to a retail customer in this
			 state and having title to electric power at some point during the
			 transaction.
(GG) "Residential
			 customer" means a customer of a competitive retail electric service for
			 residential purposes.
(HH) "Retail
			 electric service" 
								has the same
			 meaning as set forth in division (A)(27) of
			 section 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(II) "Retail electric
			 generation service" means the provision of electric power to a retail customer
			 in this state through facilities provided by an electric distribution utility
			 and/or a transmission entity in this state. The term encompasses the services
			 performed by retail electric generation providers, power marketers, and power
			 brokers, but does not encompass the service provided by an electric utility
			 pursuant to section 4928.14 or division (D) of
			 section 4928.35 of the Revised
			 Code.
(JJ) "Small commercial
			 customer" means a commercial customer that is not a mercantile commercial
			 customer.
(KK) "Solicitation" means
			 any communication intended to elicit a customer's agreement to purchase or
			 contract for a CRES.
(LL) "Staff"
			 means the commission staff or its authorized representative.
(MM) "Toll-free" means telephone access
			 provided to a customer without toll charges to the customer.
(NN) "Unknown purchased resources" means
			 electric energy generation resources neither owned nor operated by a
			 competitive retail generation supplier where the electric energy generation
			 source(s) or process cannot be identified after making all reasonable efforts
			 to identify the source or process used to produce the power.