Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 117 - Assignment of costs and opportunity sales › Section PSC 117.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
			 "Capacity" means the continuous load-carrying ability of electric generation
			 expressed in megawatts.
(2)
			 "Commission" means the public service commission of Wisconsin.
(3) "Energy" means the amount of electric
			 generation or use of electric power over a period of time, expressed in
			 kilowatthours, megawatthours, or gigawatthours.
(4) "Excess capacity" means any existing
			 capacity and any planned additional capacity that is not needed to meet native
			 customers' capacity demands, contracted firm power sales, and the required
			 planning reserve margin after taking into consideration scheduled maintenance
			 outages.
(5) "Existing capacity"
			 means all installed and in-service generating capacity owned by the public
			 utility and all purchased firm capacity under contract to the public
			 utility.
(6) "Firm capacity" means
			 electric capacity that cannot be curtailed for economic reasons by either the
			 transmission provider or the supplier of capacity.
(7) "Firm power sale" means any sale by a
			 public utility of firm capacity, or firm capacity and electric energy to a
			 customer other than the public utility's native customers.
(8) "Fuel rules" means the provisions of ch.
			 PSC 116.
Note: The commission administers the fuel rules, under ch. PSC
				116, to individual public utilities in the commission's rate orders for those
				public utilities.
(9)
			 "Fully-allocated sale" means a firm power sale that does not meet the
			 definition of an opportunity sale.
(10) "Incremental cost" means the additional
			 costs that would be incurred by producing or purchasing the next available unit
			 of electric energy or capacity in order to supply the sale.
(11) "Jurisdictional cost-of-service study"
			 means a method of allocating a public utility's total revenue requirement among
			 each retail and wholesale jurisdiction using factors such as capacity demands,
			 energy requirements, and customer data.
(12) "Native customers" means the retail
			 electric customers that the public utility has a duty to serve, under ss.
			 196.03(1),
			 196.20(1),
			 and
			 196.53,
			 Stats.
(13) "Non-firm power sale"
			 means any sale of electric capacity, or electric capacity and energy, to a
			 customer other than the public utility's native customers, that is not a firm
			 power sale.
(14) "Opportunity sale"
			 means either a non-firm power sale, or a firm power sale that meets all of the
			 following conditions:
(a) The contracted sale
			 is a firm power sale that does not extend more than 3 years.
(b) The contracted sales capacity could be
			 supplied from excess capacity that existed at the time the sales contract was
			 signed by the selling public utility, and at that time excess capacity was
			 reasonably expected to exist during the entire term of the contract.
Note: Firm power sales contracts that include options for the
				purchaser to extend the contract to a period of more than 3 years shall be
				considered to extend more than 3 years.
Note: Firm power sales contracts that include a provision to
				automatically extend the contract to a period of more than 3 years, unless the
				purchaser notifies the seller that it is exercising it option to cancel the
				automatic extension, shall be considered a sale that extends more than 3
				years.