Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 26 > Chapter 1 > Subchapter III-A - Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards

• Alternative compliance payment: means a payment of a certain dollar amount per megawatt hour, which a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric company may submit in lieu of supplying the minimum percentage from Eligible Energy Resources required under Schedule I in § 354 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Commission: means the Delaware Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Community-owned energy generating facility: has the meaning given in § 1001 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Compliance year: means the calendar year beginning with June 1 and ending with May 31 of the following year, for which a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric company must demonstrate that it has met the requirements of this subchapter. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Customer-sited generation: means a generation unit that is interconnected on the end-use customer's side of the retail electricity meter in such a manner that it displaces all or part of the metered consumption of the end-use customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• DNREC: means Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Eligible energy resources: include the following energy sources located within or imported into the PJM region:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352

• End-use customer: means a person or entity in Delaware that purchases electrical energy at retail prices from a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric company. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Fund: means the Delaware Green Energy Fund. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• GATS: means the generation attribute tracking system developed by PJM. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Generation attribute: means a nonprice characteristic of the electrical energy output of a generation unit including, but not limited to, the unit's fuel type, geographic location, emissions, vintage and RPS eligibility. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Generation unit: means a facility that converts a fuel or an energy resource into electrical energy. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Municipal electric company: means a public corporation created by contract between 2 or more municipalities pursuant to provisions of Chapter 13 of Title 22 and the electric utilities that are municipally owned within the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• PJM interconnection: means the regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in the PJM region, or its successors at law. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• PJM region: means the area within which the movement of wholesale electricity is coordinated by PJM Interconnection. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Qualified fuel cell provider: means an entity that:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352

• Qualified fuel cell provider project: means a fuel cell power generation project located in Delaware owned and/or operated by a qualified fuel cell provider under a tariff approved by the Commission pursuant to § 364(d) of this title. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Retail electricity product: means an electrical energy offering that is distinguished by its generation attributes and that is offered for sale by a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric company to end-use customers. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Retail electricity supplier: means a person or entity that sells electrical energy to end-use customers in Delaware, including but not limited to nonregulated power producers, electric utility distribution companies supplying standard offer, default service, or any successor service to end-use customers. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• RPS: means the percentage of electricity sales at retail in the state that is to be derived from eligible energy resources. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Rural electric cooperative: means a nonstock, nonprofit, membership corporation organized pursuant to the federal Rural Electrification Act of 1936 [7 U. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• Solar Alternative Compliance Payment: means a payment of a certain dollar amount per megawatt-hour, which a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric supplier may submit in lieu of supplying the minimum percentage from solar photovoltaics required under Schedule I in § 354 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• system: shall mean a facility within this State which is constructed in whole or in part in, on, under or over any highway, road, street, alley, or other public place and which is operated to perform the service of receiving and amplifying the signals of 1 or more radio and/or television broadcasting stations and distributing such signals by cable, wire or other means to members of the public who subscribe to such service; provided that nothing herein is intended to prohibit any system from engaging in any other activity not expressly prohibited by law; except that such definition shall not include (i) any system which serves fewer than 50 subscribers; or (ii) any system which serves only the residents of 1 or more apartment dwellings or mobile home or trailer parks under common ownership, control or management, and commercial establishments located on the premises of such dwellings; or (iii) telephone, telegraph or electric utilities in those cases where the activity of such utility in connection with a cable system is limited to leasing or renting to cable systems, cables, wires, poles, towers or other electronic equipment or rights to use real property as part of, or for use in connection with, the operation of a cable system. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
• Total retail sales: means retail sales of electricity within the State of Delaware exclusive of sales to any industrial customer with a peak demand in excess of 1,500 kilowatts. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302