§ 54.2. Definitions.
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Aggregator or market aggregator—An entity, licensed by the Commission, that purchases electric energy and takes title to electric energy as an intermediary for sale to retail customers.
Basic services—Services necessary for the physical delivery of electricity service, including generation, transmission and distribution. Transition charges, although temporary in scope, are basic service charges (See the definition of transition charges in this section).
Broker or marketer—An entity, licensed by the Commission, that acts as an agent or intermediary in the sale and purchase of electric energy but does not take title to electric energy.
CTC—Competitive Transition Charge—A nonbypassable charge applied to the bill of every customer accessing the transmission or distribution network which (charge) is designed to recover an electric utility’s transition or stranded costs as determined by the Commission in sections 2804 and 2808 of the code (relating to standards for restructuring of electric industry; and competitive transition charge).
Code—The Public Utility Code, 66 Pa.C.S. § § 101—3316.
Consumer—A retail electric customer or potential customer of retail electricity service.
Consumer contract—The written disclosure statement of the terms of service between a customer and an EGS which satisfies the definition of consumer contract in section 3 of the Plain Language Consumer Contract Act (73 P. S. § 2203).
Customer—A retail electric customer.
Customer information—Written, oral or electronic communications used by electricity providers to communicate to consumers prices and terms of service.
Distribution charges—Basic service charges for delivering electricity over a distribution system to the home or business from the transmission system. These charges include basic service under § 56.15(4) (relating to billing information) and universal service, as applicable.
EDC—Electric Distribution Company—The public utility providing facilities for the jurisdictional transmission and distribution of electricity to retail customers, except building or facility owners or operators that manage the internal distribution system serving the building or facility and that supply electric power and other related electric power services to occupants of the building or facility.
EGS—Electric Generation Supplier or Supplier—(i) A person or corporation, including a municipal corporation, which provides service outside its municipal limits except to the extent provided prior to the effective date of this chapter. (Editor’s Note: The reference to ‘‘this chapter’’ refers to the code.) This includes brokers and marketers, aggregators or other entities that sell to end-use customers electricity or related services utilizing the jurisdictional transmission or distribution facilities of an electric distribution company.
(ii) The term excludes building or facility owner/operators that manage the internal distribution system for the building or facility and that supply electric power and other related power services to occupants of the building or facility.
(iii) The term also excludes electric cooperative corporations except as provided in 15 Pa.C.S. Chapter 74 (relating to generation choice for customers of electric cooperatives).
Electricity providers—The term refers collectively to the EDC, EGS, electricity supplier, marketer, aggregator or broker, as well as any third party acting on behalf of these entities.
Generation charges—Basic service charges for generation supply to retail customers. This excludes charges for transmission or other charges related to electric service.
Historical billing data—The minimum of 13 months of data as recorded by the EDC, which contains dollar amount billed. This data is kWh consumption on-peak and off-peak or at some other prescribed interval of consumption and associated cost and, if applicable, at demand levels at the intervals recorded and associated costs of those demand levels.
ITC—Intangible Transition Charge—Charges authorized by the Commission to be imposed on all customer bills and collected, through a nonbypassable mechanism by the electric utility or its successor or by any other entity which provides electric service to a person that was a customer of an electric utility located within the certificated territory of the electric utility on January 1, 1997, or that, after January 1, 1997, became a customer of electric services within the territory and is still located within the territory, to recover qualified transition expenses pursuant to a qualified rate order, in a manner that does not shift interclass or intraclass costs and maintains consistency with the allocation methodology for utility production plant accepted by the Commission in the electric utility’s most recent base rate proceeding.
Marketer or Broker—An entity, licensed by the Commission, that acts as an agent or intermediary in the sale and purchase of electric energy and does not take title to the electric energy.
Nonbasic services—Optional recurring services which are distinctly separate and clearly not required for the physical delivery of electric service.
Renewable resource—The term includes technologies such as solar photovoltaic energy, solar thermal energy, wind power, low-head hydropower, geothermal energy, landfill or other biomass-based methane gas, mine-based methane gas, energy from waste and sustainable biomass energy.
Small business customer—The term refers to a person, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association or other business entity that receives electric service under a small commercial, small industrial or small business rate classification, and whose maximum registered peak load was less than 25 kW within the last 12 months.
Transition charges—Basic service charges for costs defined as transition or stranded costs, comprised of a CTC and an ITC, designed to recover an EDC’s transition or stranded costs as authorized by the Commission.
Transition or stranded costs—An electric utility’s known and measurable net electric generation-related costs, determined on a net present value basis over the life of the asset or liability as part of its restructuring plan, which traditionally would be recoverable under a regulated environment but which may not be recoverable in a competitive electric generation market and which the Commission determines will remain following mitigation by the electric utility. The term includes those items enumerated in the definition of ‘‘transition or stranded costs,’’ in section 2803 of the code (relating to definitions).
Transmission charges—Basic service charges for the cost of transporting electricity over high voltage wires from the generator to the distribution system of an EDC.
Cross References This section cited in 52 Pa. Code § 54.1 (relating to purpose); and 52 Pa. Code § 54.3 (relating to standards and pricing practices for retail electricity service).
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