Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 57 - ELECTRIC SERVICE › Subchapter C - PURCHASE AND SALE OF ENERGY AND CAPACITY › Section 57.31 - 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:
Avoided costs
-The incremental costs to
						an electric utility of electric energy or capacity, or both, which, but for the
						purchase from the qualifying facility or qualifying facilities, the utility
						would generate itself or purchase from another source.
Back-up power
-Electric energy or
						capacity supplied by an electric utility to replace energy or capacity
						ordinarily generated by a qualifying facility's own generation equipment which
						equipment is not available during an unscheduled outage of the facility.
Capacity payment
-A payment to a supplier
						of electric capacity by a purchasing utility as provided in §
											57.34(c) 
						(relating to purchases of energy and capacity).
Competitive bidding
or
auction
or
solicitation
-An established
						procedure through which offers from qualifying facilities and other suppliers
						of electric generation or providers of demand-side management programs, or
						both, are solicited, obtained and selected in order to meet a specified need
						for electric capacity and associated energy.
DSM-demand-side management
-Programs
						designed to influence use of electricity on the customer side of the
						meter.
EWG-exempt wholesale
						generator
-Independent power producers and utility affiliated
						generators created under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (
						42 U.S.C.A. §
												13201 ), and defined at
						15 U.S.C.A. §
												79z -
						5a(a), which sell
						power exclusively to wholesale power markets.
Energy payment
-A payment to a qualifying
						facility by a purchasing utility for energy, as defined in §
						57.34(b).
Independent power producer
-An electric
						power supplier which is not a qualifying facility or a public utility.
Interconnection costs
-The reasonable
						costs of connection, switching, metering, transmission, distribution, safety
						provisions and administration incurred by the electric utility directly related
						to the installation and maintenance of the physical facilities necessary to
						permit interconnection operations with a qualifying facility to the extent
						these costs are in excess of the corresponding costs which the electric utility
						would have incurred or charged to the entire customer base to serve the
						supplier of electric capacity if it had been a customer only.
Interruptible power
-Electric energy or
						capacity supplied by an electric utility subject to interruption by the
						electric utility under specified conditions.
Maintenance power
-Electric energy or
						capacity supplied by an electric utility during scheduled outages of the
						qualifying facilities.
Net generating capacity
-The gross
						generation of a power plant minus all of the power that the plant consumes for
						internal uses.
Power Plant Life Extension Program
-A
						utility program involving major capital investment in an existing baseload
						generating facility which will result in a continuation of the facility's
						operation beyond its normal operating life.
Purchases
-The buying of electric energy
						or capacity, or both, from a qualifying facility by an electric utility.
Qualifying facility
-A cogeneration
						facility or a small power production facility which meets the criteria
						contained in 18 CFR Part 292 (relating to regulations under sections 201 and
						210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 with regard to small
						power producers and cogenerators).
Rate
-A price, rate, charge or
						classification made, demanded, observed or received with respect to the sale or
						purchase of electric energy or capacity; a rule, regulation or practice
						respecting a rate, charge or classification; and a contract pertaining to the
						sale or purchase of electric energy or capacity.
Sale
-The selling of electric energy or
						capacity, or both, by an electric utility to a qualifying facility.
Short-term capacity purchase
-A purchase
						of capacity and associated energy under a contract of not more than 5 years in
						duration.
Standard schedule
-A tariff schedule
						available to small qualifying facilities as defined at § 57.34(f).
Supplementary power
-Electric energy or
						capacity, supplied by an electric utility, regularly used by a qualifying
						facility in addition to that which the facility generates itself.
System emergency
-A condition on a
						utility's system which is likely to result in imminent significant disruption
						of service to customers or is imminently likely to endanger life or
						property.
Utility peak periods
-The seasonal
						cost-causative peaks of the electric utility.
This section cited in 52 Pa. Code §
													57.145 (relating to qualifying
						  facility and independent power
						  producer).