| (113) Retail customer--The separately metered end-use
customer who purchases and ultimately consumes electricity.
(114) Retail electric provider (REP)--A person that
sells electric energy to retail customers in this state. A retail
electric provider may not own or operate generation assets. The term
does not include a person not otherwise a retail electric provider
who owns or operates equipment used solely to provide electricity
charging service for consumption by an alternatively fueled vehicle,
as defined by Section 502.004, Transportation Code.
(115) Retail electric provider (REP) of record--The
REP assigned to the electric service identifier (ESI ID) in ERCOT's
database. There can be no more than one REP of record assigned to
an ESI ID at any specific point in time.
(116) Retail stranded costs--That part of net stranded
cost associated with the provision of retail service.
(117) Retrofit--The installation of control technology
on an electric generating facility to reduce the emissions of nitrogen
oxide, sulfur dioxide, or both.
(118) River authority--A conservation and reclamation
district created under the Texas Constitution, article 16, section
59, including any nonprofit corporation created by such a district
pursuant to the Texas Water Code, chapter 152, that is an electric
utility.
(119) Rule--A statement of general applicability that
implements, interprets, or prescribes law or policy, or describes
the procedure or practice requirements of the commission. The term
includes the amendment or repeal of a prior rule, but does not include
statements concerning only the internal management or organization
of the commission and not affecting private rights or procedures.
(120) Separately metered--Metered by an individual
meter that is used to measure electric energy consumption by a retail
customer and for which the customer is directly billed by a utility,
retail electric provider, electric cooperative, or municipally owned
utility.
(121) Service--Has its broadest and most inclusive
meaning. The term includes any act performed, anything supplied, and
any facilities used or supplied by an electric utility in the performance
of its duties under PURA to its patrons, employees, other public utilities
or electric utilities, an electric cooperative, and the public. The
term also includes the interchange of facilities between two or more
public utilities or electric utilities.
(122) Spanish-speaking person--A person who speaks
any dialect of the Spanish language exclusively or as their primary
language.
(123) Standard meter--The minimum metering device necessary
to obtain the billing determinants required by the transmission and
distribution utility's tariff schedule to determine an end-use customer's
charges for transmission and distribution service.
(124) Stranded cost--The positive excess of the net
book value of generation assets over the market value of the assets,
taking into account all of the electric utility's generation assets,
any above-market purchased-power costs, and any deferred debit related
to a utility's discontinuance of the application of Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards Number 71 ("Accounting for the Effect of Certain
Types of Regulation") for generation-related assets if required by
the provisions of PURA Chapter 39. For purposes of PURA §39.262,
book value shall be established as of December 31, 2001, or the date
a market value is established through a market valuation method under
PURA §39.262(h), whichever is earlier, and shall include stranded
costs incurred under PURA §39.263.
(125) Submetering--Metering of electricity consumption
on the customer side of the point at which the electric utility measures
electricity consumption for billing purposes.
(126) Summer net dependable capability--The net capability
of a generating unit in megawatts (MW) for daily planning and operational
purposes during the summer peak season, as determined in accordance
with requirements of the reliability council or independent organization
in which the unit operates.
(127) Supply-side resource--A resource, including a
storage device, that provides electricity from fuels or renewable
resources.
(128) System emergency--A condition on a utility's
system that is likely to result in imminent, significant disruption
of service to customers or is imminently likely to endanger life or
property.
(129) Tariff--The schedule of a utility, municipally-owned
utility, or electric cooperative containing all rates and charges
stated separately by type of service, the rules and regulations of
the utility, and any contracts that affect rates, charges, terms or
conditions of service.
(130) Termination of service--The cancellation or expiration
of a sales agreement or contract by a retail electric provider by
notification to the customer and the registration agent.
(131) Tenant--A person who is entitled to occupy a
dwelling unit to the exclusion of others and who is obligated to pay
for the occupancy under a written or oral rental agreement.
(132) Test year--The most recent 12 months for which
operating data for an electric utility, electric cooperative, or municipally-owned
utility are available and shall commence with a calendar quarter or
a fiscal year quarter.
(133) Texas jurisdictional installed generation capacity--The
amount of an affiliated power generation company's installed generation
capacity properly allocable to the Texas jurisdiction. Such allocation
shall be calculated pursuant to an existing commission-approved allocation
study, or other such commission-approved methodology, and may be adjusted
as approved by the commission to reflect the effects of divestiture
or the installation of new generation facilities.
(134) Transition bonds--Bonds, debentures, notes, certificates,
of participation or of beneficial interest, or other evidences of
indebtedness or ownership that are issued by an electric utility,
its successors, or an assignee under a financing order, that have
a term not longer than 15 years, and that are secured or payable from
transition property.
(135) Transition charges--Non-bypassable amounts to
be charged for the use or availability of electric services, approved
by the commission under a financing order to recover qualified costs,
that shall be collected by an electric utility, its successors, an
assignee, or other collection agents as provided for in a financing
order.
(136) Transmission and distribution business unit (TDBU)--The
business unit of a municipally owned utility/electric cooperative,
whether structurally unbundled as a separate legal entity or functionally
unbundled as a division, that owns or operates for compensation in
this state equipment or facilities to transmit or distribute electricity
at retail, except for facilities necessary to interconnect a generation
facility with the transmission or distribution network, a facility
not dedicated to public use, or a facility otherwise excluded from
the definition of electric utility in a qualifying power region certified
under PURA §39.152. Transmission and distribution business unit
does not include a municipally owned utility/electric cooperative
that owns, controls, or is an affiliate of the transmission and distribution
business unit if the transmission and distribution business unit is
organized as a separate corporation or other legally distinct entity.
Except as specifically authorized by statute, a transmission and distribution
business unit shall not provide competitive energy-related activities.
(137) Transmission and distribution utility (TDU)--A
person or river authority that owns, or operates for compensation
in this state equipment or facilities to transmit or distribute electricity,
except for facilities necessary to interconnect a generation facility
with the transmission or distribution network, a facility not dedicated
to public use, or a facility otherwise excluded from the definition
of "electric utility", in a qualifying power region certified under
PURA §39.152, but does not include a municipally owned utility
or an electric cooperative. The TDU may be a single utility or may
be separate transmission and distribution utilities.
(138) Transmission line--A power line that is operated
at 60 kilovolts (kV) or above, when measured phase-to-phase.
(139) Transmission service--Service that allows a transmission
service customer to use the transmission and distribution facilities
of electric utilities, electric cooperatives and municipally owned
utilities to efficiently and economically utilize generation resources
to reliably serve its loads and to deliver power to another transmission
service customer. Includes construction or enlargement of facilities,
transmission over distribution facilities, control area services,
scheduling resources, regulation services, reactive power support,
voltage control, provision of operating reserves, and any other associated
electrical service the commission determines appropriate, except that,
on and after the implementation of customer choice in any portion
of the ERCOT region, control area services, scheduling resources,
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