| (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.
(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.
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