Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 39-26 - Renewable Energy Standard

• Alternative compliance payment: means a payment to the renewable energy development fund of fifty dollars ($50. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Commission: means the Rhode Island public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Company: means and includes a person, firm, partnership, corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, association, joint-stock association or company, and his, her, its, or their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Compliance year: means a calendar year beginning January 1 and ending December 31, for which an obligated entity must demonstrate that it has met the requirements of this statute. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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: means a company taking service from an electric distribution company at a single point of delivery or meter location. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Customer-sited generation facility: 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 Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Division: means the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Electric distribution company: means a company engaging in the distribution of electricity or owning, operating, or controlling distribution facilities and shall be a public utility pursuant to subsection (20) of this section. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Electrical energy product: means an electrical energy offering, including, but not limited to, last-resort and standard-offer service, that can be distinguished by its generation attributes or other characteristics, and that is offered for sale by an obligated entity to end-use customers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Eligible renewable energy resource: means resources as defined in § 39-26-5. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• End-use customer: means a person or entity in Rhode Island that purchases electrical energy at retail from an obligated entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Existing renewable energy resources: means generation units using eligible renewable energy resources and first going into commercial operation before December 31, 1997. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Generation attributes: means the nonprice characteristics of the electrical energy output of a generation unit including, but not limited to, the unit's fuel type, emissions, vintage, and policy eligibility. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Generation unit: means a facility that converts a fuel or an energy resource into electrical energy. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Natural gas: means the combustible, gaseous mixture of low-molecular-weight, paraffin hydrocarbons, generated below the surface of the earth, containing mostly methane and ethane with small amounts of propane, butane, and hydrocarbons, and sometimes nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and helium. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• NE-GIS: means the generation information system operated by NEPOOL, its designee or successor entity, that includes a generation information database and certificate system, and that accounts for the generation attributes of electrical energy consumed within NEPOOL. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• NE-GIS certificate: means an electronic record produced by the NE-GIS that identifies the relevant generation attributes of each megawatt-hour accounted for in the NE-GIS. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• NEPOOL: means the New England Power Pool or its successor. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• New renewable energy resources: means generation units using eligible renewable energy resources and first going into commercial operation after December 31, 1997; or the incremental output of generation units using eligible renewable energy resources that have demonstrably increased generation in excess of ten percent (10%) using eligible renewable energy resources through capital investments made after December 31, 1997; but in no case involve any new impoundment or diversion of water with an average salinity of twenty (20) parts per thousand or less. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Nonregulated power producer: means a company engaging in the business of producing, manufacturing, generating, buying, aggregating, marketing, or brokering electricity for sale at wholesale or for retail sale to the public; provided however, that companies that negotiate the purchase of electric generation services on behalf of customers and do not engage in the purchase and resale of electric generation services shall be excluded from this definition. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Obligated entity: means a person or entity who or that sells electrical energy to end-use customers in Rhode Island, including, but not limited to: nonregulated power producers and electric utility distribution companies, as defined in § 39-1-2, supplying standard-offer service, last-resort service, or any successor service to end-use customers, including Narragansett Electric, but not to include Block Island Power Company as described in § 39-26-7 or Pascoag Utility District. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• 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.
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.