Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 54 - ELECTRICITY GENERATION CUSTOMER CHOICE › Subchapter G - DEFAULT SERVICE › Section 54.182 - 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:
Alternative energy portfolio standards
-A
						requirement that a certain percentage of electric energy sold to retail
						customers in this Commonwealth by EDCs and EGSs be derived from alternative
						energy sources, as defined in the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act
						(73
						P. S. §
												§
												1648.1-1648.8).
Bilateral contract
-The term as defined
						in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												2803
						(relating to definitions).
Commission
-The Pennsylvania Public
						Utility Commission.
Competitive bid solicitation process
-A
						fair, transparent and nondiscriminatory process by which a default service
						provider awards contracts for electric generation supply to qualified suppliers
						who submit the lowest bids.
DSP-Default service provider
-The term as
						defined in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												2803.
Default service
-Electric generation
						supply service provided pursuant to a default service program to a retail
						electric customer not receiving service from an EGS.
Default service implementation plan
-The
						schedule of competitive bid solicitations and spot market energy purchases,
						technical requirements and related forms and agreements.
Default service procurement plan
-The
						electric generation supply acquisition strategy a DSP will use in satisfying
						its default service obligations, including the manner of compliance with the
						alternative energy portfolio standards requirement.
Default service program
-A filing
						submitted to the Commission by a DSP that identifies a procurement plan, an
						implementation plan, a rate design to recover all reasonable costs and other
						elements identified in §
											54.185 (relating to default
						service programs and periods of service).
Default service rate
-The rate billed to
						a default service customer resulting from compliance with a Commission-approved
						default service program.
EDC-Electric distribution company
-The
						term has the same meaning as defined in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												2803.
EGS-Electric generation supplier
-The
						term has the same meaning as defined in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												2803.
FERC
-The Federal Energy Regulatory
						Commission.
Maximum registered peak load
-The highest
						level of demand for a particular customer, based on the PJM Interconnection,
						LLC, "Peak Load Contribution Standard," or its equivalent, and as may be
						further defined by the EDC tariff in a particular service territory.
PTC-Price-to-compare
-A line item that
						appears on a retail customer's monthly bill for default service. The PTC is
						equal to the sum of all unbundled generation and transmission related charges
						to a default service customer for that month of service.
RTO-Regional transmission organization
-A
						FERC-approved regional transmission organization.
Retail customer
or
retail
						electric customer
-These terms have the same meaning as defined in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												2803.
Spot market energy purchase
-The purchase
						of an electric generation supply product in a FERC-approved real time or day
						ahead energy market.
This section cited in 52 Pa. Code §
													54.123 (relating to transfer of
						  customers to default service).