Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 62 - NATURAL GAS SUPPLY CUSTOMER CHOICE › Subchapter C - CUSTOMER INFORMATION DISCLOSURE › Section 62.72 - 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:
Basic services
-Services necessary for
						the physical delivery of natural gas to a retail customer, consisting of
						natural gas distribution services and natural gas supply services.
Billed price
-The disclosed NGS price on
						the customer bill.
City gate
-The point where interstate
						pipelines deliver gas into NGDC facilities.
Commission
-The Pennsylvania Public
						Utility Commission.
Commodity charges
or
natural gas
						supply charges
-Basic service charges for natural gas supply services
						to retail customers, excluding charges for natural gas distribution
						services.
Consumer
-A retail gas customer.
Customer
-A person that buys retail
						natural gas.
Customer information
-Written, oral or
						electronic communications used by natural gas providers to communicate to
						consumers prices and terms of service.
Disclosure statement
-The written
						disclosure of the terms of service between an NGS and a customer which
						satisfies the definition of "consumer contract" in section 3 of the Plain
						Language Consumer Contract Act (73 P. S. §
												2203).
Disclosure statement prices
-The
						disclosed NGS prices in the disclosure statement.
Distribution charges
-Basic service
						charges for the delivery of natural gas to a retail customer from the point of
						receipt into the NGDC's distribution system. These charges include basic
						service under §
											56.15(4)
						(relating to billing information) and universal service, as applicable.
Efficiency information
-The existing NGDC
						efficiency information included in the NGDC's consumer education
						program.
Historical billing data
-The minimum of
						12 months of data as recorded by the NGDC, which contains usage data and dollar
						amount billed, unless 12 months of this data is not available, in which case
						the NGDC shall provide as much billing data as available. This data is thousand
						cubic feet (Mcf), hundred cubic feet (ccf) or dekatherms (Dth) consumption at
						some prescribed interval of consumption and associated cost.
Marketed prices
-The disclosed prices on
						NGS marketing customer information.
NGDC-Natural gas distribution company
-A
						public utility or city natural gas distribution operation that provides natural
						gas distribution services and which may provide natural gas supply services and
						other services. For purposes of this subchapter, the term does not include the
						following:
(i) Any public utility
					 subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission which has annual gas operating
					 revenues of less than $6 million per year, except when the public utility
					 voluntarily petitions the Commission to be included within this definition or
					 when the public utility seeks to provide natural gas supply services to retail
					 gas customers outside its service territory.
(ii) A natural gas public utility subject to
					 the jurisdiction of the Commission that is not interconnected to an interstate
					 gas pipeline by means of a direct connection or an indirect connection through
					 the distribution system of another natural gas public utility or through a
					 natural gas gathering system.
NGS-Natural gas supplier
-An entity other
						than an NGDC, but including NGDC marketing affiliates, which provides natural
						gas supply services to retail gas customers utilizing the jurisdictional
						facilities of an NGDC.
(i) The term
					 includes an NGDC that provides natural gas supply services outside its
					 certificate service territories.
(ii) The term includes a municipal
					 corporation, its affiliates or any joint venture, to the extent that it chooses
					 to provide natural gas supply services to retail customers located outside of
					 its corporate or municipal limits, as applicable, other than the following:
(A) As provided prior to July 1, 1999, the
					 effective date of 66 Pa.C.S. Chapter 22 (relating to Natural Gas Choice and
					 Competition Act), under a certificate of public convenience if required under
					 66 Pa.C.S. (relating to Public Utility Code).
(B) The total natural gas supply services in
					 de minimis amounts.
(C) Natural gas
					 supply services requested by, or provided with the consent of, the public
					 utility in whose certificated territory the services are provided.
(D) Natural gas supply services provided to
					 the municipal corporation itself or its tenants on land it owns or leases, or
					 is subject to an agreement of sale or pending condemnation, as of September 1,
					 1999, to the extent permitted by applicable law independent of 66 Pa.C.S.
					 Chapter 22.