The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional definitions that apply to this subchapter can be found at 14:4-1.2 and 14:8-1.2 and 4.2.
"Customer qualified facility" means a property owned or operated by a single customer eligible for net metering aggregation. Customer qualified facilities must be located within the customer's territorial jurisdiction or, for a State entity, must be located within five miles of one another, and are all served by the same EDC or electric power supplier.
"Eligible customer" means a State entity, school district, county, county agency, county authority, municipality, municipal agency, or municipal authority, which is eligible for net metering.
"Host site" means the facility or property on which a solar electric generation system is located.
"Host site meter" means the meter on the eligible customer's property where the solar electric generation system is located and interconnection is made, and which utilizes the net metering billing account.
"Incremental costs" means costs incurred by the EDC to provide aggregated net metering services, which would not otherwise have been incurred by the EDC and may include, but are not limited to, billing costs.
"Net metering aggregation" means a procedure for calculating the combination of the annual energy usage for all facilities owned by a single customer where each customer is a State entity, school district, county, county agency, county authority, municipality, municipal agency, or municipal authority, when one of those facilities is served by a solar electric power generating facility.
"School district" means a local or regional school district established pursuant to Chapter 8 or Chapter 13 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, a county special services school district established pursuant to article 8 of Chapter 46 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, a county vocational school district established pursuant to article 3 of Chapter 54 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, or a district under full State intervention pursuant to P.L. 1987, c. 399 (18A:7A-34 et seq.).
"Third-party contract" means a contract between an eligible customer and a third party, which provides for ownership and/or operation of the eligible customer's solar electric generation system by the third party for the purpose of net metering aggregation.
N.J. Admin. Code § 14:8-7.2