| (63) Licensing--The commission process for granting,
denial, renewal, revocation, suspension, annulment, withdrawal, or
amendment of a license.
(64) Load factor--The ratio of average load to peak
load during a specific period of time, expressed as a percent. The
load factor indicates to what degree energy has been consumed compared
to maximum demand or utilization of units relative to total system
capability.
(65) Low-income customer--An electric customer who
receives assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) from Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) or medical
assistance from a state agency administering a part of the medical
assistance program.
(66) Low-Income List Administrator (LILA)--A third-party
administrator contracted by the commission to administer aspects of
the low-income customer identification process established under PURA §17.007.
(67) Market power mitigation plan--A written proposal
by an electric utility or a power generation company for reducing
its ownership and control of installed generation capacity as required
by PURA §39.154.
(68) Market value--For nonnuclear assets and certain
nuclear assets, the value the assets would have if bought and sold
in a bona fide third-party transaction or transactions on the open
market under PURA §39.262(h) or, for certain nuclear assets,
as described by PURA §39.262(i), the value determined under the
method provided by that subsection.
(69) Master meter--A meter used to measure, for billing
purposes, all electric usage of an apartment house or mobile home
park, including common areas, common facilities, and dwelling units.
(70) Municipality--A city, incorporated village, or
town, existing, created, or organized under the general, home rule,
or special laws of the state.
(71) Municipally-owned utility (MOU)--Any utility owned,
operated, and controlled by a municipality or by a nonprofit corporation
whose directors are appointed by one or more municipalities.
(72) Nameplate rating--The full-load continuous rating
of a generator under specified conditions as designated by the manufacturer.
(73) Native load customer--A wholesale or retail customer
on whose behalf an electric utility, electric cooperative, or municipally-owned
utility, by statute, franchise, regulatory requirement, or contract,
has an obligation to construct and operate its system to meet in a
reliable manner the electric needs of the customer.
(74) Natural gas energy credit (NGEC)--A tradable instrument
representing each megawatt of new generating capacity fueled by natural
gas, as authorized by PURA §39.9044 and implemented under §25.172
of this title (relating to Goal for Natural Gas).
(75) Net book value--The original cost of an asset
less accumulated depreciation.
(76) Net dependable capability--The maximum load in
megawatts, net of station use, that a generating unit or generating
station can carry under specified conditions for a given period of
time without exceeding approved limits of temperature and stress.
(77) New on-site generation--Electric generation with
capacity greater than ten megawatts capable of being lawfully delivered
to the site without use of utility distribution or transmission facilities,
which was not, on or before December 31, 1999, either:
(A) A fully operational facility; or
(B) A project supported by substantially complete filings
for all necessary site-specific environmental permits under the rules
of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) in effect
at the time of filing.
(78) Off-grid renewable generation--The generation
of renewable energy in an application that is not interconnected to
a utility transmission or distribution system.
(79) Other generation sources--A competitive retailer's
or affiliated retail electric provider's supply of generated electricity
that is not accounted for by a direct supply contract with an owner
of generation assets.
(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.
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