20 Va. Admin. Code § 5-319-20

Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 4, October 8, 2024
Section 20VAC5-319-20 - Definitions

The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Aggregate load" means the combined electrical load associated with selected accounts of an ARB with the same legal entity name as, or in the names of affiliated entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common control of, such legal entity or are the names of affiliated entities under a common parent.

"Bundled contract" means [ (i) ] a contract for the bundled capacity, energy, and RECs from solar or wind generation resources located within the PJM region and initially placed in commercial operation after January 1, 2015, including any contract with a utility for such generation resources that does not allocate to or recover from any other customer of the utility the cost of such resources [ ; and (ii) a subscription by a customer of a Phase II Utility, as of March 1, 2020, to a voluntary companion experimental tariff offering of the utility for the purchase of renewable attributes from renewable energy facilities that requires a renewable facilities agreement and the purchase of a minimum of 2,000 renewable attributes annually ].

"Commission" means the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

"Electrical load associated with the selected accounts of an accelerated renewable energy buyer" means the aggregate demand to be determined based on the sum of the maximum non-coincident peak demand metered on the utility's distribution system for each customer account in the previous calendar year. The maximum non-coincident peak demand for each customer account is the highest average kilowatt measured during any 30-minute interval in the previous calendar year.

"Phase I Utility" has the same meaning as provided in § 56-585.1 A 1 of the Code of Virginia.

"Phase II Utility" has the same meaning as provided in § 56-585.1 A 1 of the Code of Virginia.

"REC" means renewable energy certificate.

"REC-only contract" means a contract for purchase of unbundled RECs from RPS eligible resources [ as that term is described in § 56-585.5 C of the Code of Virginia ].

20 Va. Admin. Code § 5-319-20

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 38, Issue 11, eff. 2/1/2022.

Statutory Authority: §§ 12.1-13 and 56-585.5 of the Code of Virginia.