| (80) Person--Includes an individual, a partnership
of two or more persons having a joint or common interest, a mutual
or cooperative association, and a corporation, but does not include
an electric cooperative.
(81) Power cost recovery factor (PCRF)--A charge or
credit that reflects an increase or decrease in purchased power costs
not in base rates.
(82) Power generation company (PGC)--A person that:
(A) generates electricity that is intended to be sold
at wholesale, including the owner or operator of electric energy storage
equipment or facilities to which the Public Utility Regulatory Act,
chapter 35, subchapter E applies;
(B) does not own a transmission or distribution facility
in this state, other than an essential interconnecting facility, a
facility not dedicated to public use, or a facility otherwise excluded
from the definition of "electric utility" under this section; and
(C) does not have a certificated service area, although
its affiliated electric utility or transmission and distribution utility
may have a certificated service area.
(83) Power marketer--A person who becomes an owner
of electric energy in this state for the purpose of selling the electric
energy at wholesale; does not own generation, transmission, or distribution
facilities in this state and does not have a certificated service
area.
(84) Power region--A contiguous geographical area that
is a distinct region of the North American Electric Reliability Council.
(85) Pre-interconnection study--A study or studies
that may be undertaken by a utility in response to its receipt of
a completed application for interconnection and parallel operation
with the utility system at distribution voltage. Pre-interconnection
studies may include, but are not limited to, service studies, coordination
studies, and utility system impact studies.
(86) Premises--A tract of land or real estate or related
commonly used tracts including buildings and other appurtenances thereon.
(87) Price to beat (PTB)--A price for electricity,
as determined under PURA §39.202, charged by an affiliated retail
electric provider to eligible residential and small commercial customers
in its service area.
(88) Proceeding--A hearing, investigation, inquiry,
or other procedure for finding facts or making a decision, including
adopting, amending, or repealing a rule or setting a rate. The term
includes a denial of relief or dismissal of a complaint.
(89) Proprietary customer information--Any information
obtained by a retail electric provider, an electric utility, or a
transmission and distribution business unit, as defined in §25.275(c)(16)
of this title, on a customer in the course of providing electric service
or by an aggregator on a customer in the course of aggregating electric
service that makes possible the identification of any individual customer
by matching such information with the customer's name, address, account
number, type or classification of service, historical electricity
usage, expected patterns of use, types of facilities used in providing
service, individual contract terms and conditions, price, current
charges, billing records, or any information that the customer has
expressly requested not be disclosed. Information that is redacted
or organized in such a way as to make it impossible to identify the
customer to whom the information relates does not constitute proprietary
customer information.
(90) Provider of last resort (POLR)--A retail electric
provider (REP) certified in Texas that has been designated by the
commission to provide a basic, standard retail service package in
accordance with §25.43 of this title (relating to Provider of
Last Resort (POLR)).
(91) Public retail customer--A retail customer that
is an agency of this state, a state institution of higher education,
a public school district, or a political subdivision of this state.
(92) Public utility or utility--An electric utility
as that term is defined in this section, or a public utility or utility
as those terms are defined in PURA §51.002.
(93) Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA)--The enabling
statute for the Public Utility Commission of Texas, located in the
Texas Utilities Code Annotated, §§11.001 et. seq.
(94) Purchased power market value--The value of demand
and energy bought and sold in a bona fide third-party transaction
or transactions on the open market and determined by using the weighted
average costs of the highest three offers from the market for purchase
of the demand and energy available under the existing purchased power
contracts.
(95) Qualified scheduling entity--A market participant
that is qualified by ERCOT in accordance with section 16, Registration
and Qualification of Market Participants of ERCOT's protocols, to
submit balanced schedules and ancillary services bids and settle payments
with ERCOT.
(96) Qualifying cogenerator--As defined by 16 U.S.C. §796(18)(C).
A qualifying cogenerator that provides electricity to the purchaser
of the cogenerator's thermal output is not for that reason considered
to be a retail electric provider or a power generation company.
(97) Qualifying facility--A qualifying cogenerator
or qualifying small power producer.
(98) Qualifying small power producer--As defined by
16 U.S.C. §796(17)(D).
(99) Rate--A compensation, tariff, charge, fare, toll,
rental, or classification that is directly or indirectly demanded,
observed, charged, or collected by an electric utility for a service,
product, or commodity described in the definition of electric utility
in this section and a rule, practice, or contract affecting the compensation,
tariff, charge, fare, toll, rental, or classification that must be
approved by a regulatory authority.
(100) Rate class--A group of customers taking electric
service under the same rate schedule.
(101) Rate year--The 12-month period beginning with
the first date that rates become effective. The first date that rates
become effective may include, but is not limited to, the effective
date for bonded rates or the effective date for interim or temporary
rates.
(102) Ratemaking proceeding--A proceeding in which
a rate may be changed.
(103) Registration agent--Entity designated by the
commission to administer registration and settlement, premise data,
and other processes concerning a customer's choice of retail electric
provider in the competitive electric market in Texas.
(104) Regulatory authority--In accordance with the
context where it is found, either the commission or the governing
body of a municipality.
(105) Renewable demand side management (DSM) technologies--Equipment
that uses a renewable energy resource (renewable resource) as defined
in this section, that, when installed at a customer site, reduces
the customer's net purchases of energy (kWh), electrical demand (kW),
or both.
(106) Renewable energy--Energy derived from renewable
energy technologies.
(107) Renewable energy credit (REC)--A tradable instrument
representing the generation attributes of one MWh of electricity from
renewable energy sources, as authorized by the PURA §39.904 and
implemented under §25.173(e) of this title (relating to Goal
for Renewable Energy).
(108) Renewable energy credit account (REC account)--An
account maintained by the renewable energy credits trading program
administrator for the purpose of tracking the production, sale, transfer,
purchase, and retirement of RECs by a program participant.
(109) Renewable energy resource (renewable resource)--A
resource that produces energy derived from renewable energy technologies.
(110) Renewable energy technology--Any technology that
exclusively relies on an energy source that is naturally regenerated
over a short time and derived directly from the sun, indirectly from
the sun, or from moving water or other natural movements and mechanisms
of the environment. Renewable energy technologies include those that
rely on energy derived directly from the sun, on wind, geothermal,
hydroelectric, wave, or tidal energy, or on biomass or biomass-based
waste products, including landfill gas. A renewable energy technology
does not rely on energy resources derived from fossil fuels, waste
products from fossil fuels, or waste products from inorganic sources.
(111) Repowering--Modernizing or upgrading an existing
facility in order to increase its capacity or efficiency.
(112) Residential customer--Retail customers classified
as residential by the applicable bundled utility tariff, unbundled
transmission and distribution utility tariff or, in the absence of
classification under a residential rate class, those retail customers
that are primarily end users consuming electricity at the customer's
place of residence for personal, family or household purposes and
who are not resellers of electricity.
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