Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 58 > Chapter 41 - Renewable Energy Programs

• Avoided costs: means the incremental costs to an electric utility of electric energy or capacity or both which, but for the purchase from the qualifying facility or qualifying facilities, such utility would generate itself or purchase from another source. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Commission: means the South Carolina Public Service Commission. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Eligible customer: means a retail customer with a new or existing contract demand greater than or equal to one megawatt at a single-metered location or aggregated across multiple-metered locations. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• 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.
• Generation credit: means a credit applied by an electrical utility to the bill of a participating customer that is equal to the value of the energy and capacity avoided by the electrical utility as a result of procuring energy and capacity from a renewable energy facility. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• lands: as used in this chapter shall be held to cover and include railroads and all property assessed for benefits. See South Carolina Code 49-19-40
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Participating customer: means an eligible customer that elects to have a portion or all of its electricity needs supplied by a voluntary renewable energy program. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Participating customer agreement: means an agreement between a participating customer, its electrical utility, and the renewable energy supplier establishing each party's rights and obligations under the electrical utility's voluntary renewable energy program. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Power purchase agreement: means an agreement between an electrical utility and a small power producer for the purchase and sale of energy, capacity, and ancillary services from the small power producer's qualifying small power production facility. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• PURPA: means the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, as amended. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Renewable energy contract: means a power purchase agreement between an electrical utility and a renewable energy supplier that commits the parties to participating in an electrical utility's voluntary renewable energy program for the purchase and sale of energy and capacity. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Renewable energy facility: means a facility for the production of electrical energy that utilizes a renewable generation resource as defined in § 58-39-120(F), that is placed in service after the effective date of this chapter, and for which costs are not included in an electrical utility's rates. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Renewable energy supplier: means the owner or operator of a renewable energy facility, including the affiliate of an electrical utility that contracts with a participating customer. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Small power producer: means a person or corporation owning or operating a "qualifying small power production facility" as defined in 16 U. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Standard offer: means the avoided cost rates, power purchase agreement, and terms and conditions approved by the commission and applicable to purchases of energy and capacity by electrical utilities as provided in this chapter from small power producers up to two megawatts AC in size. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Voluntary renewable energy program: means a tariff filed with the commission by an electrical utility that enables a participating commercial or industrial customer to receive and pay for electric service, that reflects the program cost, and that includes the environmental attributes specified in the participating customer agreement and renewable energy contract, including a generation credit for such renewable energy, from the electrical utility pursuant to the terms of the tariff. See South Carolina Code 58-41-10