D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 15, r. 15-4299

Current through Register Vol. 72, No. 2, January 10, 2025

Rule 15-4299 - DEFINITIONS

4299.1

For the purposes of this chapter:

"Behind-the-meter generator" - anon-site generator that is located behind a retail customer's meter such that no Electric Company-owned transmission or distribution facilities are used to deliver the energy from the generating unit to the on-site load.

"Biomass" means a solid, nonhazardous, cellulosic waste material that is segregated from other waste materials and is derived from any of the following forest-related resources, with the exception of old growth timber, unsegregated solid waste, or post-consumer waste paper:

(a) mill residue,

(b) precommercial soft wood thinning,

(c) slash,

(d) brush,

(e) yard waste,

(f) waste pallet, crate or dunnage, and

(g) agricultural sources, including tree crops, vineyard materials, grain, legumes, sugar, and other crop by-products or residues.

"Commission" means the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia.

"Electric company " includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, or person doing business in the District of Columbia, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, physically transmitting or distributing electricity in the District of Columbia to retail electric customers, excluding any person or entity distributing electricity from a behind-the- meter generator to a single retail customer behind the same meter and located on the same premise as the customer's meter. In addition, the term excludes any building owner, lessee, or manager who, respectively, owns, leases, or manages, the internal distribution system serving the building and who supplies electricity and other electricity related services solely to the occupants of the building for use by the occupants. The term also excludes a Person or entity that does not sell or distribute electricity and that owns or operates equipment used exclusively for the charging of electric vehicles.

"Electricity supplier" means a person, including an Aggregator, Broker, or Marketer, who generates electricity; sells electricity; or purchases, brokers, arranges or markets electricity for sale to customers. The term excludes the following:

(A) Building owners, lessees, or managers who manage the internal distribution system serving such building and who supply electricity solely to the occupants of the building for use by the occupants;

(B) Any Person who purchases electricity for its own use or for the use of its subsidiaries or affiliates;

(C) Any apartment building or office building manager who aggregates electric service requirements for his or her building or buildings, and who does not:

(i) Take title to electricity;

(ii) Market electric services to the individually- metered tenants of his or her building; or

(iii) Engage in the resale of electric services to others;

(D) Property owners who supply small amounts of power, at cost, as an accommodation to lessors or licensees of the property;

(E) Consolidators;

(F) Community Renewable Energy Facilities (CREFs) as defined in Section 4199.1 and as described in Sections 4109.1 through 4109.3 of Title 15, pursuant to the Community Renewable Energy Amendment Act of 2013 (D.C. Law 20-47; D.C. Official Code §§ 34-1518et seq.);

(G) An Electric Company; and

(H) Any Person or entity that owns a behind-the- meter generator and sells or supplies the electricity from that generator to a single retail customer or customers behind the same meter located on the same premise.

"Hydroelectric" means power produced through conventional hydroelectric turbines.

"Ocean" means power produced from currents, tides, waves, and thermal differences.

"PJM Environmental Information Services " means the wholly-owned subsidiary of PJM Technologies, Inc. that provides environmental and emissions attributes reporting and tracking services to its subscribers.

"Residual fuel mix " means the net amount of generation remaining after subtracting from the total generation occurring during a year any generation that has been removed through specific claims on such generation.

D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 15, r. 15-4299

Final Rulemaking published at 55 DCR 9737 (September 12, 2008), incorporating by reference the text of Proposed Rulemaking published at 55 DCR 7572 (July 11, 2008); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 65 DCR 11025 (10/5/2018)