| (23) Customer class--A group of customers with similar
electric-service characteristics (e.g., residential, commercial, industrial,
sales for resale) taking service under one or more rate schedules.
Qualified businesses as defined by the Texas Enterprise Zone Act,
Texas Government Code, title 10, chapter 2303 may be considered to
be a separate customer class of electric utilities.
(24) Day-ahead--The day preceding the operating day.
(25) Deemed savings--A pre-determined, validated estimate
of energy and peak demand savings attributable to an energy efficiency
measure in a particular type of application that a utility may use
instead of energy and peak demand savings determined through measurement
and verification activities.
(26) Demand--The rate at which electric energy is delivered
to or by a system at a given instant, or averaged over a designated
period, usually expressed in kilowatts (kW) or megawatts (MW).
(27) Demand savings--A quantifiable reduction in the
rate at which energy is delivered to or by a system at a given instance,
or averaged over a designated period, usually expressed in kilowatts
(kW) or megawatts (MW).
(28) Demand-side management (DSM)--Activities that
affect the magnitude or timing of customer electrical usage, or both.
(29) Demand-side resource or demand-side management--Equipment,
materials, and activities that result in reductions in electric generation,
transmission, or distribution capacity needs or reductions in energy
usage or both.
(30) Disconnection of service--Interruption of a customer's
supply of electric service at the customer's point of delivery by
an electric utility, a transmission and distribution utility, a municipally
owned utility or an electric cooperative.
(31) Distribution line--A power line operated below
60,000 volts, when measured phase-to-phase, that is owned by an electric
utility, transmission and distribution utility, municipally owned
utility, or electric cooperative.
(32) Distributed resource--A generation, energy storage,
or targeted demand-side resource, generally between one kilowatt and
ten megawatts, located at a customer's site or near a load center,
which may be connected at the distribution voltage level (below 60,000
volts), that provides advantages to the system, such as deferring
the need for upgrading local distribution facilities.
(33) Distribution service provider (DSP)--An electric
utility, municipally-owned utility, or electric cooperative that owns
or operates for compensation in this state equipment or facilities
that are used for the distribution of electricity to retail customers
including retail customers served at transmission voltage levels.
(34) Economically distressed geographic area--Zip-code
area in which the average household income is less than or equal to
60% of the statewide median income as reported in the most recently
available United States Census data.
(35) Electric cooperative--
(A) a corporation organized under the Texas Utilities
Code, Chapter 161 or a predecessor statute to Chapter 161 and operating
under that chapter;
(B) a corporation organized as an electric cooperative
in a state other than Texas that has obtained a certificate of authority
to conduct affairs in the State of Texas; or
(C) a successor to an electric cooperative created
before June 1, 1999, in accordance with a conversion plan approved
by a vote of the members of the electric cooperative, regardless of
whether the successor later purchases, acquires, merges with, or consolidates
with other electric cooperatives.
(36) Electric generating facility--A facility that
generates electric energy for compensation and that is owned or operated
by a person in this state, including a municipal corporation, electric
cooperative, or river authority.
(37) Electric generation equipment lessor or operator--A
person who rents to, or operates for compensation on behalf of, a
third party electric generation equipment that:
(A) is used on a site of the third party until the
third party is able to obtain sufficient electricity service;
(B) produces electricity on site to be consumed by
the third party and not resold; and
(C) does not interconnect with the electric transmission
or distribution system.
(38) Electricity facts label--Information in a standardized
format, as described in §25.475(f) of this title (relating to
Information Disclosures to Residential and Small Commercial Customers),
that summarizes the price, contract terms, fuel sources, and environmental
impact associated with an electricity product.
(39) Electricity product--A specific type of retail
electricity service developed and identified by a REP, the specific
terms and conditions of which are summarized in an electricity facts
label that is specific to that electricity product.
(40) Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)--Refers
to the independent organization and, in a geographic sense, refers
to the area served by electric utilities, municipally owned utilities,
and electric cooperatives that are not synchronously interconnected
with electric utilities outside of the State of Texas.
(41) Electric service identifier (ESI ID)--The basic
identifier assigned to each point of delivery used in the registration
system and settlement system managed by ERCOT or another independent
organization.
(42) Electric utility--Except as otherwise provided
in this chapter, an electric utility is a person or river authority
that owns or operates for compensation in this state equipment or
facilities to produce, generate, transmit, distribute, sell, or furnish
electricity in this state. The term includes a lessee, trustee, or
receiver of an electric utility and a recreational vehicle park owner
who does not comply with Texas Utilities Code, subchapter C, chapter
184, with regard to the metered sale of electricity at the recreational
vehicle park. The term does not include:
(A) a municipal corporation;
(B) a qualifying facility;
(C) a power generation company;
(D) an exempt wholesale generator;
(E) a power marketer;
(F) a corporation described by PURA §32.053 to
the extent the corporation sells electricity exclusively at wholesale
and not to the ultimate consumer;
(G) an electric cooperative;
(H) a retail electric provider;
(I) the state of Texas or an agency of the state; or
(J) a person not otherwise an electric utility who:
(i) furnishes an electric service or commodity only
to itself, its employees, or its tenants as an incident of employment
or tenancy, if that service or commodity is not resold to or used
by others;
(ii) owns or operates in this state equipment or facilities
to produce, generate, transmit, distribute, sell or furnish electric
energy to an electric utility, if the equipment or facilities are
used primarily to produce and generate electric energy for consumption
by that person;
(iii) owns or operates in this state a recreational
vehicle park that provides metered electric service in accordance
with Texas Utilities Code, subchapter C, chapter 184;
(iv) is an electric generation equipment lessor or
operator; or
(v) owns or operates in this state equipment used solely
to provide electricity charging service for consumption by an alternatively
fueled vehicle, as defined by section 502.004 of the Transportation
Code.
(43) Energy efficiency--Programs that are aimed at
reducing the rate at which electric energy is used by equipment or
processes. Reduction in the rate of energy used may be obtained by
substituting technically more advanced equipment to produce the same
level of end-use services with less electricity; adoption of technologies
and processes that reduce heat or other energy losses; or reorganization
of processes to make use of waste heat. Efficient use of energy by
customer-owned end-use devices implies that existing comfort levels,
convenience, and productivity are maintained or improved at a lower
customer cost.
(44) Energy efficiency measures--Equipment, materials,
and practices that when installed and used at a customer site result
in a measurable and verifiable reduction in either purchased electric
energy consumption, measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh), or peak demand,
measured in kW, or both.
(45) Energy efficiency project--An energy efficiency
measure or combination of measures installed under a standard offer
contract or a market transformation contract that results in both
a reduction in customers' electric energy consumption and peak demand,
and energy costs.
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