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" shall have
			 the meaning 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) shall have the meaning 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" shall have the meaning set forth in division (A)(5) of
			 section 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Q) "Electric distribution utility" shall have the
			 meaning 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"
			 shall have the meaning 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" shall have the meaning set forth in division (A)(13)
			 of section 4928.01 of the Revised Code.
(W)
			 "Mercantile customer" shall have the meaning set forth in division (A)(19) of
			 section 4928.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(X) "Net metering" shall have
			 the meaning 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" shall have the meaning 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 shall 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" shall have the meaning 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.