Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 860 - PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION › Division 29 - REGULATIONS RELATED TO AGREEMENTS BETWEEN ELECTRIC UTILITIES AND ELECTRIC COGENERATION AND SMALL POWER PRODUCTION FACILITIES › Section 860-029-0010 - Definitions for Division 029 Rules

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) "AC" means alternating current.
(2) "Avoided costs" means the electric
			 utility's incremental costs of electric energy or capacity or both which, but
			 for the purchase from the qualifying facility or qualifying facilities, the
			 electric utility would generate itself or purchase from another source,
			 including any costs of interconnection of such resource to the
			 system.
(3) "Back-up power" and
			 "stand-by power" mean electric energy or capacity supplied by a public utility
			 to replace energy ordinarily generated by a qualifying facility's own
			 generation equipment during an unscheduled outage of the facility.
(4) "Capacity" means the average output in
			 kilowatts (kW) committed by a qualifying facility to an electric utility during
			 a specific period.
(5) "Capacity
			 costs" mean the costs associated with supplying capacity; they are an allocated
			 component of the fixed costs associated with providing the capability to
			 deliver energy.
(6) "Certified
			 qualifying facility" means a qualifying facility that is certified as such
			 under  18 CFR Part 292.
(7)
			 "Cogeneration" means the sequential generation of electric energy and useful
			 heat from the same primary energy source or fuel for industrial, commercial,
			 heating, or cooling purposes.
(8)
			 "Cogeneration facility" means a facility which produces electric energy and
			 steam or other forms of useful energy (such as heat) by cogeneration that are
			 used for industrial, commercial, heating, or cooling purposes.
(9) "Commercial operation date" means the
			 date after start-up testing is complete on which the total Nameplate Capacity
			 Rating of the Facility is fully interconnected, fully integrated, and
			 synchronized with the System, and the qualifying facility has satisfied the
			 criteria required by the power purchase agreement to declare commercial
			 operation.
(10) "Commission" means
			 the Public Utility Commission of Oregon.
(11) "Contract Price" means during the fixed
			 price term, the applicable fixed price for On-peak Hours and Off-peak Hours
			 specified in the purchasing utility's avoided cost price schedule, and during
			 the subsequent non-fixed price term, the purchasing utility's applicable Index
			 Price in effect when the energy is generated.
(12) "Costs of interconnection" means the
			 reasonable costs of connection, switching, dispatching, metering, transmission,
			 distribution, equipment necessary for System protection, safety provisions, and
			 administrative costs incurred by an electric utility directly related to
			 installing and maintaining the physical facilities necessary to permit
			 purchases from a qualifying facility.
(13) "Demand" means the average rate in
			 kilowatts at which electric energy is delivered during a set period to be
			 determined by mutual agreement between the electric utility and the
			 customer.
(14) "Development period"
			 means the time period commencing on the Effective Date and ending at 24:00 in
			 the prevailing time zone in which the qualifying facility is located on the day
			 before the scheduled commercial operation date or such earlier date on which
			 the qualifying facility achieves the commercial operation date in compliance
			 with these rules.
(15) "Effective
			 date" means the date specified in the power purchase agreement on which the
			 power purchase agreement between the qualifying facility and the public utility
			 becomes effective.
(16) "Electric
			 utility" means a nonregulated utility or a public utility as defined in ORS
			 758.505.
(17) "Energy" means electric energy, measured
			 in kilowatt hours (kWh).
(18)
			 "Energy costs" means:
(a) For nonfirm energy,
			 the incremental costs associated with the production or purchase of electric
			 energy by the electric utility, which include the cost of fuel and variable
			 operation and maintenance expenses, or the cost of purchased energy;
(b) For firm energy, the combined allocated
			 fixed costs and associated variable costs applicable to a displaced generating
			 unit or to a purchase.