West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 150 - Public Service Commission › Title 150 - EXEMPT LEGISLATIVE RULE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Series 150-03 - Government of Electric Utilities › Section 150-3-12 - Cogeneration and Small Power Production

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
12.1. Definitions.
12.1.1. Terms defined in the Public Utility
				Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA),
				16
				U.S.C. 2601, et seq., shall have the same
				meaning for purposes of this Rule 12 as they have under PURPA, unless further
				defined in this rule.
12.1.1.a. "Qualifying
				facility" means a cogeneration facility or a small power production facility
				which satisfies the criteria for qualifying facilities set forth in Subpart B
				of Part 292 of the rules of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
				Qualifying Cogeneration and Small Power Production Facilities,
				18 C.F.R.
				§
												292.201 through §
											292.207.
12.1.1.b. "Purchase" means the purchase of
				electric energy or capacity or both from a qualifying facility by an electric
				utility.
12.1.1.c. "Sale" means the
				sale of electric energy or capacity or both by an electric utility to a
				qualifying facility.
12.1.1.d.
				"System emergency" means a condition on a utility's system which is likely to
				result in imminent significant disruption of service to customers or is
				imminently likely to endanger life or property.
12.1.1.e. "Rate" means any price, rate,
				charge, or classification made, demanded, observed or received with respect to
				the sale or purchase of electric energy or capacity, or any rule, regulation,
				or practice respecting any such rate, charge, or classification, and any
				contract pertaining to the sale or purchase of electric energy or
				capacity.
12.1.1.f. "Avoided costs"
				means the incremental costs to an electric utility of electric energy or
				capacity or both which, but for the purchase from the qualifying facility or
				qualifying facilities, such utility would generate itself or purchase from
				another source.
12.1.1.g.
				"Interconnection costs" means the reasonable cost of connection, switching,
				metering, transmission, distribution, safety provisions and administrative
				costs incurred by the electric utility directly related to the installation and
				maintenance of the physical facilities necessary to permit interconnected
				operations with a qualifying facility, to the extent such costs are in excess
				of the corresponding costs which the electric utility would have incurred if it
				had not engaged in interconnected operations, but instead generated an
				equivalent amount of electric energy itself or purchased an equivalent amount
				of electric energy or capacity from other sources. Interconnection costs do not
				include any costs included in the calculation of avoided costs.
12.1.1.h. "Supplementary power" means
				electric energy or capacity or both supplied by an electric utility, regularly
				used by a qualifying facility in addition to that which the facility generates
				itself.
12.1.1.i. "Back-up power"
				means electric energy or capacity or both supplied by an electric utility to
				replace energy ordinarily generated by a facility's own generation equipment
				during an unscheduled outage of the facility.
12.1.1aj. "Interruptible power" means
				electric energy or capacity or both supplied by an electric utility subject to
				interruption by the electric utility under specified conditions.
12.1.1.k. "Maintenance
				power" means electric energy or capacity or both supplied by an electric
				utility during scheduled outages by the qualifying facility.
12.1.1.l. "Commission" means Public Service
				Commission of West Virginia.