Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 58 - RESIDENTIAL LOW INCOME USAGE REDUCTION PROGRAMS › Section 58.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Administrative costs
-Expenses not directly
					 related to the provision of program services. The term may include salaries,
					 fringe benefits and related personnel costs for administration, secretarial and
					 clerical support involved in fiscal activities, planning, personnel
					 administration, and the like; office expenses, such as rents, postage, copying
					 and equipment; and other expenses, such as audit and evaluation expenses,
					 advertising and insurance.
Covered utility
-A jurisdictional electric
					 or gas local distribution utility having sales of natural gas for purposes
					 other than resale exceeding 10 billion cubic feet or sales of electric energy
					 for purposes other than resale exceeding 750 million kilowatt-hours during the
					 preceding calendar year or both.
Eligible customer
-A low income or special
					 needs customer who is a residential space heating customer, or a residential
					 water heating customer, or a residential high use electric baseload customer of
					 a covered utility.
Energy survey
-An onsite inspection of a
					 residential building for the purpose of determining the most appropriate usage
					 reduction measures.
Low income customer
-A residential utility
					 customer with household income at or below 150% of the Federal poverty
					 guidelines.
Pilot program
-A program by a covered
					 utility to develop, implement and evaluate new or innovative methods for
					 achieving usage reduction.
Program measures
-Installations which are
					 designed to reduce energy consumption.
Program services
-Services offered or
					 performed by a covered utility or its agent under this chapter.
Residential high use electric baseload
					 customer
-A residential customer of a covered utility utilizing the
					 electric service provided by the covered utility for nonspace heating or
					 nonwater heating end uses such as lighting and major and minor appliance usage
					 and utilizing greater than 125% of the usage of the covered utility's average
					 residential baseload customer.
Residential space heating customer
-A
					 residential customer of the covered utility utilizing the electric or gas
					 service provided by the covered utility as the primary heating source for the
					 customer's residence. The term includes customers with gas furnaces that have
					 historically been used for heating but may not currently be operable.
Residential water heating customer
-A
					 residential customer of the covered utility utilizing the electric or gas
					 service provided by the covered utility as the primary water heating source for
					 the customer's residence.
Special needs customer
-A customer having
					 an arrearage with the covered utility and whose household income is at or below
					 200% of the Federal poverty guidelines.
Usage reduction education
-A group or
					 individual presentation or workshop in which usage reduction objectives and
					 techniques are explained.
This section cited in 52 Pa. Code §
												58.5 (relating to administrative
						costs); and 52 Pa. Code §
												58.10 (relating to priority of
						program services).