Iowa Admin. Code r. 199-27.1
Iowa Code section 476.2(1) provides that the Iowa utilities commission has authority to establish all needful, just and reasonable rules, not inconsistent with law, to govern the exercise of its powers and duties; the practice and procedure before it; and to the form, content and filing of reports, documents and other papers provided for in Iowa Code chapter 476 or in the commission's rules.
"Capacity" means the instantaneous rate at which energy can be delivered, received, or transferred, measured in kilowatts.
"Complaint" means a statement or question by any person, whether a utility customer or not, alleging a wrong, grievance, injury, dissatisfaction, illegal action or procedure, dangerous condition or action, or obligation of an electric cooperative or municipal electric utility.
"Customer" means any person, firm, association, or corporation; any agency of the federal, state, or local government; or any legal entity responsible by law for payment for the electric service or heat from the electric cooperative or municipal electric utility.
"Delinquent" or "delinquency" means an account for which a service bill or service payment agreement bill has not been paid in full on or before the last day for timely payment.
"Distribution line" means any single or multiphase electric power line operating at nominal voltage in either of the following ranges: 2,000 to 26,000 volts between ungrounded conductors or 1,155 to 15,000 volts between grounded and ungrounded conductors, regardless of the functional service provided by the line.
"Electric plant" includes all real estate, fixtures, and property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate production, generation, transmission, or distribution in providing electric service or heat by an electric utility.
"Electric service" means furnishing electricity to the public for compensation for use as heat, light, power, or energy.
"Energy" means electric energy measured in kilowatt hours.
"Engineering standards" means standards adopted by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), Rural Utilities Service (RUS), or comparable engineering organization or engineering standards adopted by the commission.
"Major event" means when an event results in extensive physical damage to transmission or distribution facilities within an electric cooperative or municipal electric utility's operating area due to unusually severe and abnormal weather or event and:
"Meter" means, unless otherwise qualified, a device that measures and registers the integral of an electrical quantity with respect to time.
"Power" means electric power measured in kilowatts.
"Rates" means the same as defined in Iowa Code section 384.80 and includes all charges or fees imposed or collected for the provision of or incidental to utility service.
"Safety standard" means applicable regulations promulgated by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Safety standards for electric utilities subject to Iowa Code section 476.1A also include outage notifications, safety standards contained in the National Electrical Safety Code, as published by IEEE, and electric safety standards approved by ANSI.
"Secondary line" means any single or multiphase electric power line operating at nominal voltage less than either 2,000 volts between ungrounded conductors or 1,155 volts between grounded and ungrounded conductors, regardless of the functional service provided by the line.
"Service limitation" means the establishment of a limit on the amount of power that may be consumed by a residential customer through the installation of a service limiter device on the customer's meter.
"Tariff" means the service classifications, rules, procedures, and policies filed with and approved by the commission.
"Timely payment" means a payment on a customer's account made on or before the date shown on a current bill for service, or on a form that records an agreement between the customer and a utility for a series of partial payments to settle a delinquent account, as the date which determines application of a late payment charge to the current bill or future collection efforts.
"Transmission line" means any single or multiphase electric power line operating at nominal voltages at or in excess of either 69,000 volts between ungrounded conductors or 40,000 volts between grounded and ungrounded conductors, regardless of the functional service provided by the line.
ANSI-American National Standards Institute, www.ansi.org.
IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, www.ieee.org.
NESC-National Electrical Safety Code.
NFPA-National Fire Protection Association, www.nfpa.org.
RUS-United States Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service, www.rd.usda.gov/about-rd/agencies/rural-utilities-service.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 199-27.1