Washington Administrative Code › Title 194 - Commerce, Department of (Energy) › Chapter 194-37 - Energy independence › Section 194-37-040 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The definitions in chapter 19.285 RCW apply throughout this
				chapter.
(1) "Annual revenue
			 requirement" and "total annual revenue requirement" mean that portion of a
			 utility's annual budget approved by its governing body for the target year that
			 is intended to be recovered through retail electricity sales in the state of
			 Washington in the target year, or as otherwise documented by the utility
			 pursuant to WAC
			 194-37-150.
(2) "Biennial target" means a utility's
			 biennial conservation target.
(3)
			 "BPA" means the Bonneville Power Administration.
(4) "Measurement protocol" means a procedure
			 or method used, consistent with industry standards, to establish with
			 reasonable certainty the amount of energy savings that will result from the
			 installation of a conservation measure. Industry standards include a range of
			 appropriate protocols reflecting a balancing of cost and accuracy, such as the
			 application of a deemed savings value established through industry processes
			 for a measure that has broad application and uniform characteristics and the
			 use of engineering calculations, metering, utility billing analysis, and
			 computer simulation for a measure installed as part of a customer-specific
			 project.
(5) "Multifuel generating
			 facility" means a generating facility that is capable of producing energy from
			 more than one nonrenewable fuel, renewable fuel, or nonfuel energy source,
			 either simultaneously or as alternatives, provided that at least one fuel
			 source (energy source) is a renewable resource and the relative quantities of
			 electricity production can be measured or calculated, and verified.
(6) "NWPCC" means Pacific Northwest Electric
			 Power and Conservation Planning Council also known as the Northwest Power and
			 Conservation Council. Its calculation of avoided costs and publications are
			 available at
www.
			 nwcouncil.org
.
(7) "REC"
			 means renewable energy credit.
(8)
			 "Regional technical forum" or "RTF" means a voluntary advisory committee that
			 reports to the executive director of the NWPCC and whose members are appointed
			 by the NWPCC's chair.
(9)
			 "Renewable energy target" means the amount, in megawatt-hours or RECs,
			 necessary for a utility to satisfy the requirements of
			 RCW
			    19.285.040(2)(a) in a
			 specific target year.
(10)
			 "Substitute resource" means reasonably available electricity or generating
			 facilities, of the same contract length or facility life as the eligible
			 renewable resource the utility invested in to comply with chapter 19.285 RCW
			 requirements, that otherwise would have been used to serve a utility's retail
			 load in the absence of chapter 19.285 RCW requirements to serve that retail
			 load with eligible renewable resources.
(11) "Target year" means a specific year in
			 which a utility must comply with the renewable energy requirements of chapter
			 19.285 RCW.
(12) "Ten-year
			 potential" means the ten-year cost effective conservation resource
			 potential.
(13) "Utility" means a
			 consumer-owned electric utility, as the term consumer-owned utility is defined
			 in
			 RCW
			    19.29A.010, that is a qualifying
			 utility.
(14) "Verification
			 protocol" means a procedure or method used, consistent with industry standards,
			 to establish with reasonable certainty that a conservation measure was
			 installed and is in service. Industry standards include a range of appropriate
			 protocols reflecting a balance of cost and accuracy, such as tracking
			 installation of measures through incentive payments and the use of on-site
			 inspection of measures installed as part of a customer-specific
			 project.
(15) "Vintage" means the
			 year in which electricity is generated.
(16) "Weather-adjusted load" means load
			 calculated after variations in peak and average temperatures from year to year
			 are taken into account.
(17)
			 "WREGIS" means the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System.
			 WREGIS is an independent, renewable energy registry and tracking system for the
			 region covered by the Western Interconnection. WREGIS creates renewable energy
			 certificates, WREGIS certificates, for verifiable renewable generation from
			 units that register in the registry and tracking system.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				     19.285.080(2). 08-07-079,
				  §
										194-37-040, filed 3/18/08,
				  effective 4/18/08.