Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 57 - ELECTRIC SERVICE › Subchapter O - ADVANCED METER DEPLOYMENT › Section 57.252 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Advanced meter network
or
network
-A communications infrastructure that upgrades an
						existing meter system in an EDC service territory to provide for automated
						meter reading or other services and is used for customer billing.
Advanced meter standards
-A set of
						standards which define minimum compatibility, accuracy and functional
						requirements for an advanced meter, meter-related device or network as
						applicable.
Commission
-The Public Utility Commission
						of the Commonwealth.
EDC-Electric distribution company
-A
						public utility providing facilities for the jurisdictional transmission and
						distribution of electricity to retail customers, except building or facility
						owners/operators that manage an internal distribution system which serves a
						building or facility and which supplies electric power and other related
						electric power services to occupants of that building or facility.
EGS-Electric generation supplier
-A
						person or corporation, including municipal corporations which choose to provide
						service outside their municipal limits except to the extent provided prior to
						January 1, 1997, brokers, and marketers, aggregators or other entities, that
						sells to end-use customers electricity or related services utilizing the
						jurisdictional transmission or distribution facilities of an EDC or that
						purchases, brokers, arranges or markets electricity or related services for
						sale to end-use customers utilizing the jurisdictional transmission and
						distribution facilities of an EDC. The term excludes building or facility
						owner/operators that manage the internal distribution system serving the
						building or facility. The term excludes electric cooperative corporations
						except as provided in 15 Pa.C.S. Chapter 74 (relating to generation choice for
						customers of electric cooperatives).
Metering committee
or
committee
-An advisory body to the Commission which advises on
						advanced metering matters and which consists of, to the extent possible, an
						equal number of representatives of EDCs, EGSs, as well as consumer,
						environmental and EDC electrical worker union representatives.
Meter-related device
-A device identified
						through the process established under this subchapter which may be attached to
						an existing standard meter that supports the provision of generation services
						in a competitive market and meets certain advanced meter standards.
Modify a profile interval
-A function
						which permits a meter to store information on a variety of subhourly and hourly
						time intervals.
Multiple callout capability
-A function
						which permits more than one party to have remote access to an advanced
						meter.
Net incremental cost
-An analysis of the
						difference between the costs associated with existing standard meters and those
						with the advanced capabilities of the particular advanced meter or
						meter-related device at issue. The analysis should take into account the
						acquisition cost of the meter or meter-related device, including economies of
						scale, as well as costs associated with its installation, reading and
						maintenance.
Password protection
-A function which
						permits a meter to provide information only to parties with legitimate access
						rights.
Pulse output
-A function which permits a
						meter to provide pulses, when each pulse represents a specific amount of
						electric usage.
Qualified advanced meter
-A customer's
						billing meter identified through the process established under this subchapter
						that supports the provision of generation services in a competitive market and
						meets certain advanced meter standards established by the Commission.
Retail electric customer
or
customer
-A direct user of electric power as defined by
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												2803
						(relating to definitions).