Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-106 - Electric companies-Purchases of electricity from qualifying facilities › Section 480-106-007 - Definitions "Avoided costs"

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
means the incremental costs to a utility of electric energy,
				capacity, or both that, but for the purchase from the qualifying facility or
				qualifying facilities, the utility would generate itself or purchase from
				another source.
"Back-up power"
means electric energy or capacity
				supplied by a utility to replace energy ordinarily generated by a qualifying
				facility's own generation equipment during an unscheduled outage of the
				qualifying facility.
"Capacity"
means the capability to produce or
				avoid the need to produce electric energy and ancillary electrical services,
				measured in kilowatts (kW) including, but not limited to, the criteria
				described in WAC 480-106-050(5)(b).
"Commission"
means the Washington utilities and
				transportation commission.
"Energy"
means electric energy, measured in
				kilowatt-hours (kWh) or megawatt-hours (MWh).
"Integrated resource plan"
or
"IRP"
means the filing made every two years by a utility in accordance with WAC
				480-100-238
				Integrated resource planning.
"Interconnection costs"
means the reasonable costs
				of connection, switching, metering, transmission, distribution, safety
				provisions, and administration incurred by the utility directly related to the
				installation and maintenance of the physical facilities necessary to permit
				interconnected operations with a qualifying facility that are in excess of the
				corresponding costs the utility would have incurred if it had not engaged in
				interconnected operations. Interconnection costs do not include any costs
				included in the calculation of avoided costs.
"Interruptible power"
means electric energy or
				capacity supplied by a utility subject to interruption by the utility under
				specified conditions.
"Legally enforceable obligation"
means the binding
				commitment of a qualifying facility to sell, and of a utility to purchase, the
				energy, capacity, or both provided by the qualifying facility over a specified
				term in accordance with these rules.
"Maintenance power"
means electric energy or
				capacity supplied by a utility during scheduled outages of a qualifying
				facility.
"Qualifying facility"
means a cogeneration
				facility or a small power production facility that is a qualifying facility
				under 18 C.F.R. Part 292 Subpart B.
"Request for proposals"
or
"RFPs"
means the documents describing a utility's solicitation of
				bids for delivering electric capacity, energy, or both, or conservation that
				was issued consistent with chapter 480-107 WAC.
"Supplementary power"
means electric energy or
				capacity supplied by a utility that a qualifying facility regularly uses in
				addition to the energy or capacity that the qualifying facility generates
				itself.
"System emergency"
means a condition on a
				utility's system that is likely to result in an imminent, significant
				disruption of service to customers or is imminently likely to endanger life or
				property.
"Utility"
means an electrical company as defined
				in
				RCW
				80.04.010 that is subject to the commission's
				jurisdiction under
				RCW
				80.01.040,
				80.04.010,
				and chapter 80.28 RCW.