New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter II - ELECTRIC UTILITIES › Subchapter A - Service › Part 96 - Residential Electric Submetering › Section 96.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The following definitions apply for purposes of this
					 Part:
(a) Assisted living facilities.
				  Multi-unit residential premises, identified as assisted living facilities and
				  certified by the New York State Department of Health as such, which provide
				  congregate residential housing with supportive services, including on-site
				  monitoring, and personal care services and/or home care services in a homelike
				  setting.
(b) Campground,
				  recreational trailer park, marinas, and parking facilities. Facilities for use
				  on an intermittent, temporary, or irregular basis by campground, recreational,
				  trailer park, marina, or vehicle charging stations where electric service is
				  delivered by the utility to the facility owner and redistributed to individual
				  campsites, trailers, boats or plug-in electric vehicle charging stations with
				  or without submetering.
(c)
				  Condominium. Separate ownership of individual units in a multi-unit residential
				  premises. Each unit owner holds title to a unit of real property and also owns
				  a common tenancy with owners of other units for the common areas of the
				  building, which are managed by a homeowners' association, or as established in
				  the condominium bylaws.
(d)
				  Cooperative apartment. Multi-unit residential premises in which residents own a
				  share in the corporation that owns the real estate, which entitles the
				  shareholder to occupy a dwelling unit. Each shareholder is granted the right to
				  occupy one housing unit through an occupancy agreement, which is similar to a
				  lease. A board of directors manages the cooperative.
(e) Direct metering. In multi-unit
				  residential premises, the measurement of electricity use in each unit through a
				  meter that has been provided by the distribution utility company, wherein each
				  individual residential unit is assigned its own meter.
(f) Electric heating. Heat provided to an
				  entire living space with electricity primarily by means of non-portable
				  electric heating appliances.
(g)
				  HEFPA. The Home Energy Fair Practices Act, Public Service Law, sections 30-53
				  and all commission regulations adopted to implement such provisions.
(h) Master-metering. The measurement through
				  a single meter of the quantity of electricity delivered to a multi-unit
				  residential premises by a utility, wherein the owner or manager of such
				  building is the utility customer and wherein the electricity may be
				  redistributed to the individual residential units in the building either with
				  or without submetering.
(i) Rate
				  cap. The maximum rate, calculated in each billing period, that may be used to
				  compute the charges for electric service to a submetered resident. Unless a
				  different rate cap is set pursuant to sections
				  96.2(a)
				 and
				  96.8(b) and
				  (c)  of this Part, the rate cap shall be the
				  rates and charges of the distribution utility for delivery and commodity in
				  that billing period to similarly situated, direct metered residential
				  customers. Where residents are billed for time-of-use, the maximum rate for
				  purposes of calculating the rate cap shall be the average annual residential
				  rate.
(j) Resident. The occupant of
				  a unit used as a home in a multi-unit residential premises.
(k) Senior living facility. Multi-unit
				  residential premises in which energy-efficient housing and other services are
				  provided, and will be provided in the future, to resident senior citizens, in
				  which electric usage does not vary significantly from unit to unit because
				  units are uniform in size and in the types of appliances, and which promotes
				  economic development.
(l)
				  Submeterer. Any multi-unit residential premises owner or utility customer of
				  record who purchases electricity for delivery by the utility to the premises
				  and facilitates the sale or redistribution of such electricity for use by the
				  premises occupants whose units are separately metered and billed based on the
				  measurement of electricity use in each occupant's unit. Any entity acting on
				  behalf of such owner that arranges for the installation of submeters and the
				  billing of submetered usage to individual residents shall be considered the
				  agent of the submeterer. The submeterer may engage the services of a
				  submetering service provider to install meters, read meters and/or handle
				  billing.
(m) Submetering. A system
				  of measuring electricity use in a residential unit in a master-metered
				  multi-unit residential premises, or campground, trailer park, marina or parking
				  facility by means of a submeter installed on the wiring to each residential
				  unit, campsite, trailer, boat hookup or plug-in electric vehicle charging
				  station.
(n) Time-of-use rates. The
				  pricing of electricity based on actual usage during particular time intervals.
				  Time-of-use rates may be applicable to blocks of time over a 24-hour
				  period.
(o) Time-of-use meter. A
				  meter that registers accumulated energy consumption (data) over specific time
				  intervals.
(p) Utility customer.
				  For purposes of this Part, an electricity consumer whose use of electricity is
				  directly metered by the distribution utility and is a customer of record of the
				  distribution utility.