Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 62 - NATURAL GAS SUPPLY CUSTOMER CHOICE › Subchapter D - LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR NATURAL GAS SUPPLIERS › Section 62.101 - 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:
Act
-66 Pa.C.S §§ 2201-2212
						(relating to Natural Gas Choice and Competition Act).
Aggregator
-An entity, licensed by the
						Commission, that purchases natural gas and takes title to it as an intermediary
						for sale to retail customers.
Applicant
-A person or entity seeking to
						obtain a license to supply retail natural gas supply services to retail
						customers.
Broker
-An entity, licensed by the
						Commission, that acts as an agent or intermediary in the sale and purchase of
						natural gas that does not take title to natural gas supply.
City natural gas distribution
						operation
-A collection of real and personal assets used for
						distributing natural gas to retail gas customers owned by a city or a municipal
						authority, nonprofit corporation or public corporation formed under section
						2212(m) of the act (relating to city natural gas distribution
						operations).
License
-A license granted to an NGS
						under this subchapter.
Licensee
-A person or entity that has
						obtained a license to provide natural gas supply services to retail
						customers.
Marketing
-The publication, dissemination
						or distribution of informational and advertising materials regarding the
						licensed NGS's natural gas supply services and products to the public by
						personal contact, print, broadcast, electronic media, direct mail or by
						telecommunication.
NGDC-Natural gas distribution
						company
-The term as defined in section 2202 of the act (relating to
						definitions).
NGS-Natural gas supplier
-The term as
						defined in section 2202 of the act.
Natural gas supply services
-The term as
						defined in section 2202 of the act.
Nonselling marketer
-An individual or
						commercial entity, such as a telemarketing firm, door-to-door salesman or
						company, or auction-type web site, under contract to a licensed NGS, that
						provides marketing services to retail customers for natural gas supply
						services.
Nontraditional marketer
-A
						community-based organization, civic, fraternal or business association, or
						common interest group that works with a licensed NGS as an agent to market
						natural gas service to its members or constituents. A nontraditional marketer
						may not require its members or constituents to obtain its natural gas service
						through a specific licensed NGS.
Offer to provide service
-The extension
						of an offer to provide services or products communicated orally or in writing
						to a customer.
Retail gas customer
-The term as defined
						in section 2202 of the act.
Supplier of last resort
-A supplier
						approved by the Commission under section 2207(a) of the act (relating to
						obligation to serve) to provide natural gas supply services to customers who
						contracted for natural gas that was not delivered, or who did not select an
						alternative NGS, or who are not eligible to obtain competitive natural gas
						supply, or who return to the supplier of last resort after having obtained
						competitive natural gas supply.
This section cited in 52 Pa. Code §
													62.222 (relating to
						  definitions).