Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 39-26.6 - The Renewable Energy Growth Program

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Board: shall mean the distributed-generation board as established pursuant to the provisions of Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Ceiling price: means the bidding price cap(s) applicable to each annual enrollment for a given distributed-generation class, that shall be approved for each renewable energy class pursuant to the procedure established in this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Commission: means the Rhode Island public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Community remote distributed-generation system: means a distributed-generation facility greater than two hundred fifty kilowatt (250 KW) nameplate direct current that allocates bill credits for each kilowatt hour (KWh) generated to a minimum of three (3), eligible recipient-customer accounts, provided that no more than fifty percent (50%) of the credits produced by the system are allocated to one eligible recipient-customer account, and provided further that at least fifty percent (50%) of the credits produced by the system are allocated to eligible recipients in an amount not to exceed that which is produced annually by twenty-five kilowatt (25 KW) AC capacity. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• 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
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Core forest: refers to unfragmented forest blocks of single or multiple parcels totaling two hundred fifty (250) acres or greater unbroken by development and at least twenty-five (25) acres from mapped roads, with eligibility questions to be resolved by the director of the department of environmental management. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• 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
• Distributed-generation facility: means an electrical-generation facility located in the electric distribution company's load zone with a nameplate capacity no greater than five megawatts (5 MW), except for solar projects as described in Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Distributed-generation project: means a distinct installation of a distributed-generation facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Division: means the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Electric distribution company: means a company defined in § 39-1-2(a)(12), supplying standard-offer service, last-resort service, or any successor service to end-use customers, but not including the Block Island Power Company or the Pascoag Utility District. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• ISO-NE: means Independent System Operator-New England, the Regional Transmission Organization for New England designated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• 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.
• material investment: shall mean investment necessary to allow the project to qualify as a new, renewable energy resource under § 39-26-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Medium-scale solar project: means a solar distributed-generation project with the nameplate capacity specified in Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Office: means the Rhode Island office of energy resources. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Preferred sites: means a location for a renewable energy system that has had prior development, including, but not limited to: landfills, gravel pits and quarries, highway and major road median strips, brownfields, superfund sites, parking lots or sites that are designated appropriate for carports, and all rooftops including, but not limited to, residential, commercial, industrial and municipal buildings. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Program year: means a year beginning April 1 and ending March 31, except for the first program year, that may commence after April 1, 2015, subject to commission approval. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Renewable energy certificate: means a New England Generation Information System renewable energy certificate as defined in § 39-26-2(14). See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Renewable energy classes: means categories for different renewable energy technologies using eligible renewable energy resources as defined by § 39-26-5, including biogas created as a result of anaerobic digestion, but, specifically excluding all other listed eligible biomass fuels specified in § 39-26-2(6). See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Shared solar facility: means a single small-scale or medium-scale solar facility that must allocate bill credits to at least two (2), and no more than fifty (50), accounts in the same customer class and on the same or adjacent parcels of land. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Small distributed-generation project: means a distributed-generation renewable energy project that has a nameplate capacity within the following: Wind: fifty kilowatts (50 KW) to one and one-half megawatts (1. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3