Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 330 - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY › Division 140 - SELF DIRECTION OF PUBLIC PURPOSES CHARGES BY LARGE RETAIL ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS › Section 330-140-0020 - Definitions as Used in This Division

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) "Above-market costs of new renewable
			 energy resources" means the portion of the net present value cost of producing
			 power (including fixed and operating costs, delivery, overhead and profit) from
			 a new renewable energy resource that exceeds the market value of an equivalent
			 quantity and distribution (across peak and off-peak periods and seasonality) of
			 power from a nondifferentiated source with the same term of contract.
(2) "Attest" means attestation services as
			 defined in ORS
			 673.010(1).
(3) "Certification of Qualifying Expenditure
			 for Cost-effective Energy Efficiency Resources" means written notification from
			 the Oregon Department of Energy to a large electricity consumer that certifies
			 the cost of an installed energy efficiency project is eligible under these
			 rules to be claimed as a credit against the amount charged in rates pursuant to
			 ORS
			 757.054(4)
			 that is owed by the large electricity consumer
(4) "Certification of Qualifying Expenditure
			 for New Energy Conservation" means written notification from the Oregon
			 Department of Energy to a large electricity consumer that certifies the cost of
			 an installed energy conservation project that was pre-certified prior to
			 January 1, 2022, is eligible to be claimed as a credit against the amount
			 charged in rates pursuant to ORS
			 757.054(4)
			 owed by the large electricity consumer under these rules.
(5) "Certification of Qualifying Expenditure
			 for Investments in Distribution System-Connected Technologies" means a written
			 notification from the Oregon Department of Energy to a large electricity
			 consumer that certifies the cost of an installed distribution system-connected
			 technologies project is eligible under these rules to be claimed as a credit
			 against public purpose charges owed by the large electricity
			 consumer.
(6) "Certification of
			 Qualifying Expenditure for New Renewable Energy Resources" means written
			 notification from the Oregon Department of Energy to a large electricity
			 consumer that certifies the contracted cost of new renewable energy resource
			 purchases is eligible under these rules to be claimed as a credit against
			 public purpose charges owed by the large electricity consumer.
(7) "Commission" means the Public Utility
			 Commission of Oregon.
(8)
			 "Consumer-owned utility" means a municipal electric utility, a people's utility
			 district or an electric cooperative.
(9) "Cost-effective energy efficiency" means
			 all available energy efficiency resources that are cost effective, reliable,
			 and feasible.
(10) "Direct access"
			 means the ability of a retail electricity consumer to purchase electricity and
			 certain ancillary services, as determined by the Commission for an electric
			 company or the governing body of a consumer-owned utility, directly from an
			 entity other than the distribution utility.
(11) "Direct service industrial consumer"
			 means an end-user of electricity that obtains electricity directly from the
			 transmission grid and not through a distribution utility.
(12) "Distribution" means the delivery of
			 electricity to retail electricity consumers through a distribution system
			 consisting of local area power poles, transformers, conductors, meters,
			 substations and other equipment.
(13) "Distribution system-connected
			 technologies" means one of the following two technologies, connected to the
			 distribution grid at the large electricity consumer's site, and installed for
			 use by the large electricity consumer:
(a) a
			 "smart inverter" that is part of a solar generation system and is capable of
			 providing grid support; or
(b) a
			 battery energy storage system with a smart inverter and/or integrated controls
			 capable of providing grid support, installed as either stand-alone storage or
			 storage paired with a renewable energy system, and charged by either on-site
			 renewable energy or the electric grid.