New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 14 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Chapter 8 - RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY › Subchapter 11 - SUCCESSOR SOLAR INCENTIVE PROGRAM › Section 14:8-11.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
For the purposes of this subchapter, the following words and
				  terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Associated disturbed areas" means areas, that may themselves
				  not have been contaminated, but after considering tax and property records, as
				  well as historical land use, are, or were, the site of an accessory use to
				  contaminated areas or landfills. Examples include access roads, lay-down areas,
				  and former building sites that were previously part of an industrial or
				  landfill complex.
"Associated solar facility" means the solar facility linked
				  to a storage facility by the bid into the CSI Program.
"Co-location" means siting two or more SuSI-eligible solar
				  facilities on the same property or on contiguous properties, such that the
				  individual facilities are eligible for a higher incentive value than they would
				  be if they were combined into one single facility. In the case of net metered
				  projects, SuSI-eligible solar facilities shall be not be deemed co-located if
				  they serve separate net metering customers as defined at
				  N.J.A.C.
				  14:8-4.
"Commencing commercial operation" means having obtained
				  permission to operate (PTO) from the relevant electric distribution
				  company.
"Contaminated site or landfill" means the same as that term
				  is defined pursuant to the Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act,
				  N.J.S.A.
				  48:3-51.
"Municipal electric utility" means a municipal, county, or
				  other governmental entity, or a regional cooperative, which owns and/or
				  operates an electric distribution system in New Jersey.
"New Jersey SREC-II Qualification Life" means the period of
				  time during which a SuSI-eligible facility may create NJ SREC-IIs.
"Normalized storage bid" means the bid into the CSI Program,
				  calculated in dollars per megawatt hour, that corresponds to an incentive for a
				  storage facility capable of discharging the equivalent of four hours of the
				  nominal electricity generation capacity of the associated solar facility, where
				  both the solar generation capacity and the Storage discharge capacity are
				  measured in direct current (DC).
"PJM Environmental Information Services" or "PJM-EIS" means
				  the unregulated affiliate of PJM Interconnection LLC that operates the
				  Generation Attribute Tracking System (GATS).
"Public entity" means a customer that is a State entity,
				  school district, county, county agency, county authority, municipality,
				  municipal agency, municipal authority, New Jersey public college, or New Jersey
				  public university.
"Site plan" means a development plan of one or more lots on
				  which is shown:
(1) the existing and
				proposed conditions of the lot, including, but not limited to, topography,
				vegetation, drainage, flood plains, marshes and waterways, and any contaminated
				sites or landfills;
(2) the
				location of all existing and proposed buildings, drives, parking spaces,
				walkways, means of ingress and egress, drainage facilities, utility services,
				landscaping, structures, signs, lighting, and screening devices; and
(3) any other information that may be
				reasonably required in order to make an informed determination on the
				requirements of this subchapter.
"Storage facility" means a device that is capable of
				  absorbing energy from the grid or from a Distributed Energy Resource, storing
				  it for a period of time using mechanical, chemical, or thermal processes, and
				  thereafter discharging the energy back to the grid or directly to an
				  energy-using system to reduce the use of power from the grid.
"SuSI Program registration manager" means the agent of the
				  Board contracted to administer the registration process for SuSI-eligible
				  facilities.