Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 54 - ELECTRICITY GENERATION CUSTOMER CHOICE › Subchapter A - CUSTOMER INFORMATION › Section 54.2 - 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:
Aggregator
or
market
						aggregator
-An entity, licensed by the Commission, that purchases
						electric energy and takes title to electric energy as an intermediary for sale
						to retail customers.
Basic services
-Services necessary for
						the physical delivery of electricity service, including generation,
						transmission and distribution. Transition charges, although temporary in scope,
						are basic service charges (See the definition of transition charges in this
						section).
Broker
or
marketer
-An
						entity, licensed by the Commission, that acts as an agent or intermediary in
						the sale and purchase of electric energy but does not take title to electric
						energy.
CTC-Competitive Transition Charge
-A
						nonbypassable charge applied to the bill of every customer accessing the
						transmission or distribution network which (charge) is designed to recover an
						electric utility's transition or stranded costs as determined by the Commission
						in sections 2804 and 2808 of the code (relating to standards for restructuring
						of electric industry; and competitive transition charge).
Code
-The Public Utility Code,
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												§
												101-3316.
Consumer
-A retail electric customer or
						potential customer of retail electricity service.
Consumer contract
-The written disclosure
						statement of the terms of service between a customer and an EGS which satisfies
						the definition of consumer contract in section 3 of the Plain Language Consumer
						Contract Act (73 P. S. §
												2203).
Customer
-A retail electric
						customer.
Customer information
-Written, oral or
						electronic communications used by electricity providers to communicate to
						consumers prices and terms of service.
Distribution charges
-Basic service
						charges for delivering electricity over a distribution system to the home or
						business from the transmission system. These charges include basic service
						under §
											56.15(4)
						(relating to billing information) and universal service, as applicable.
EDC-Electric Distribution Company
-The
						public utility providing facilities for the jurisdictional transmission and
						distribution of electricity to retail customers, except building or facility
						owners or operators that manage the internal distribution system serving the
						building or facility and that supply electric power and other related electric
						power services to occupants of the building or facility.
EGS-Electric Generation Supplier
or
Supplier
-
(i) A person
					 or corporation, including a municipal corporation, which provides service
					 outside its municipal limits except to the extent provided prior to the
					 effective date of this chapter. (Editor's Note: The reference to ''this
					 chapter'' refers to the code.) This includes brokers and marketers, aggregators
					 or other entities that sell to end-use customers electricity or related
					 services utilizing the jurisdictional transmission or distribution facilities
					 of an electric distribution company.
(ii) The term excludes building or facility
					 owner/operators that manage the internal distribution system for the building
					 or facility and that supply electric power and other related power services to
					 occupants of the building or facility.
(iii) The term also excludes electric
					 cooperative corporations except as provided in 15 Pa.C.S. Chapter 74 (relating
					 to generation choice for customers of electric cooperatives).
Electricity providers
-The term refers
						collectively to the EDC, EGS, electricity supplier, marketer, aggregator or
						broker, as well as any third party acting on behalf of these entities.
Generation charges
-Basic service charges
						for generation supply to retail customers. This excludes charges for
						transmission or other charges related to electric service.
Historical billing data
-The minimum of
						13 months of data as recorded by the EDC, which contains dollar amount billed.
						This data is kWh consumption on-peak and off-peak or at some other prescribed
						interval of consumption and associated cost and, if applicable, at demand
						levels at the intervals recorded and associated costs of those demand
						levels.
ITC-Intangible Transition Charge
-Charges
						authorized by the Commission to be imposed on all customer bills and collected,
						through a nonbypassable mechanism by the electric utility or its successor or
						by any other entity which provides electric service to a person that was a
						customer of an electric utility located within the certificated territory of
						the electric utility on January 1, 1997, or that, after January 1, 1997, became
						a customer of electric services within the territory and is still located
						within the territory, to recover qualified transition expenses pursuant to a
						qualified rate order, in a manner that does not shift interclass or intraclass
						costs and maintains consistency with the allocation methodology for utility
						production plant accepted by the Commission in the electric utility's most
						recent base rate proceeding.
Marketer
or
Broker
-An
						entity, licensed by the Commission, that acts as an agent or intermediary in
						the sale and purchase of electric energy and does not take title to the
						electric energy.
Nonbasic services
-Optional recurring
						services which are distinctly separate and clearly not required for the
						physical delivery of electric service.
Renewable resource
-The term includes
						technologies such as solar photovoltaic energy, solar thermal energy, wind
						power, low-head hydropower, geothermal energy, landfill or other biomass-based
						methane gas, mine-based methane gas, energy from waste and sustainable biomass
						energy.
Small business customer
-The term refers
						to a person, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association or
						other business entity that receives electric service under a small commercial,
						small industrial or small business rate classification, and whose maximum
						registered peak load was less than 25 kW within the last 12 months.
Transition charges
-Basic service charges
						for costs defined as transition or stranded costs, comprised of a CTC and an
						ITC, designed to recover an EDC's transition or stranded costs as authorized by
						the Commission.
Transition or stranded costs
-An electric
						utility's known and measurable net electric generation-related costs,
						determined on a net present value basis over the life of the asset or liability
						as part of its restructuring plan, which traditionally would be recoverable
						under a regulated environment but which may not be recoverable in a competitive
						electric generation market and which the Commission determines will remain
						following mitigation by the electric utility. The term includes those items
						enumerated in the definition of "transition or stranded costs," in section 2803
						of the code (relating to definitions).
Transmission charges
-Basic service
						charges for the cost of transporting electricity over high voltage wires from
						the generator to the distribution system of an EDC.
This section cited in 52 Pa. Code §
													54.1 (relating to purpose); and 52
						  Pa. Code §
													54.3 (relating to standards and
						  pricing practices for retail electricity
						  service).