Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 57 - ELECTRIC SERVICE › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 57.1 - 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:
Alternate route
or
alternative
						route
-A reasonable right-of-way which includes not more than 25% of
						the right-of-way of the applicant's proposed route.
Commence construction
-To begin clearing
						or disturbing the land or the first act in erecting thereon an artificial
						structure, but does not include action necessary for the purpose of gathering
						survey, geological, environmental or similar data.
Customer
-A party supplied with electric
						service by a public utility.
Customer's installation
-Wiring and
						equipment on the premises of a customer, and poles, wires or cables and other
						facilities necessary to bring the terminus of the wiring of a customer to a
						location where it may be connected to the service line.
Electric supply line
-The wires or
						cables, with the necessary supporting or containing structures and
						appurtenances, used in connection with an overhead or underground system of a
						public utility, providing electric power, located on a public highway or
						utility right-of-way and used to transmit or distribute electric energy.
Electric utility
-A public utility as
						defined in
						66 Pa.C.S. §
												102
						(relating to definitions).
Eminent domain application
-An
						application filed with the Commission by a public utility for a certificate of
						public convenience for approval of the exercise of the power of eminent domain
						to acquire rights-of-way for the construction, operation and maintenance of an
						aerial transmission line.
Existing transmission line
						right-of-way
-A right-of-way of sufficient width to accommodate two or
						more transmission lines on May 20, 1978 and on which at least one transmission
						line was erected as of May 20, 1978, or a right-of-way of sufficient width to
						accommodate two or more lines for which siting approval was received and on
						which at least one line has been constructed.
HV transmission line
or
HV
						line
-An overhead electric supply line with a design voltage greater
						than 100,000 volts.
Line extension
-An addition to the public
						utility electric supply line necessary to serve the premises of a customer
						which addition is so located that it cannot be supplied by means of a service
						line from the existing electric supply line.
Proposed route
-The right-of-way on which
						the applicant desires to construct an HV transmission line.
Public utility
-Persons or corporations
						in this Commonwealth owning or operating equipment or facilities for
						generating, transmitting, distributing or furnishing electricity for the
						production of light, heat or power to or for the public for compensation. The
						term does not include either of the following:
(i) A person or corporation not otherwise a
					 public utility who or which furnishes service only to himself or
					 itself.
(ii) A
bona
					 fide
cooperative association which furnishes service only to its
					 stockholders or members on a nonprofit basis.
Service line
-The wires or cables and
						appurtenances which connect the electric supply line of the public utility with
						the customer's installation and which comply with either of the
						following:
(i) If overhead-open-wire or
					 cable-construction, the span, normally 100 feet, extending to a suitable
					 support provided by the customer.
(ii) If the electric supply line is of
					 underground construction, the underground facilities extending to but not
					 exceeding 18 inches inside the property line of the customer.
Service point
-The location of
						interconnection designated by the electric utility in its Commission-approved
						tariff where the utility's service supply lines terminate and the customer's
						facilities for receiving service begin.
Service terminal
-The point at which the
						service lines of the public utility terminate and the customer's facilities for
						receiving the service begin.
Siting application
-An application filed
						with the Commission by a public utility under §
											57.71 (relating to
						application).
Transmission line
-An overhead electric
						supply line with a design voltage greater than 35,000 volts.
Transmission line right-of-way
-A right
						enjoyed over the property of another subject to certain conditions which arise
						by reason of one of the following:
(i)
					 A lease.
(ii) An
					 easement.
(iii) A right to use or
					 license.
(iv) An option to buy with
					 right of possession.
(v) Ownership
					 in fee simple absolute or any lesser estate of land, obtained for the purpose
					 of constructing and maintaining a transmission line or HV
					 line.
The provisions of this §
													57.1 issued under the Public
						  Utility Code,
						  66 Pa.C.S. §
														§
														331,
						  501,
						  504 and
						  1501.
This section cited in 52 Pa. Code §
													57.144 (relating to transmission
						  line projection).