For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
CUSTOMER. Any entity interconnected to the town’s distribution system for the purpose of receiving retail electric power service from town’s distribution system.
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. The town’s facilities and equipment used to transmit electricity to ultimate usage points, such as homes and industries directly from nearby generators or from interchanges with higher voltage transmission networks which transport bulk power over longer distances and from town’s wholesale supplier.
ELECTRIC WHOLESALE SUPPLIER or EWS. The town’s total requirements electric wholesale supplier.
FACILITIES INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT or CUSTOMER-OWNED GENERATION FACILITIES INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT. The meaning set forth in § 155.06 of this chapter.
GENERATING FACILITY. The customer’s device for the conversion of renewable generation of solar energy to electricity, as identified in the interconnection application and able to be certified as a qualifying facility under the definitions of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA, Pub. Law No. 95-617, 92 Stat. 3117, enacted 11-9-1978), a United States act passed as part of the National Energy Act, and as amended.
GOOD UTILITY PRACTICE. Any of the practices, methods and acts engaged in or approved by a significant portion of the electric industry during the relevant time period, or any of the practices, methods and acts which, in the exercise of reasonable judgment in light of the facts known at the time the decision was made, could have been expected to accomplish the desired result at a reasonable cost consistent with good business practices, reliability, safety and expedition. GOOD UTILITY PRACTICE is not intended to be limited to the optimum practice, method or act to the exclusion of all others, but rather to be acceptable practices, methods or acts generally accepted in the region.
GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY. Federal, state, local or other governmental regulatory or administrative agency, court, commission, department, board or other governmental subdivision, legislature, rule-making board, tribunal or other governmental authority having jurisdiction over the parties, their respective facilities or the respective services they provide, and exercising or entitled to exercise any administrative, executive, police or taxing authority, or power; provided, however, that, such term does not include the customer or any affiliate thereof.
INTERCONNECTION APPLICATION. The customer’s request to interconnect a new generating facility, or to increase the capacity of, or make a material modification to the operating characteristics of an existing generating facility that is interconnected with the utility’s electrical system.
INTERCONNECTION STANDARD. All the provisions of this chapter, and related forms other documents described in this chapter.
INVERTER. An apparatus that converts direct current into alternating current.
QUALIFYING FACILITY. A generation facility that is a QUALIFYING FACILITY under 18 C.F.R. part 292, subpart B, and is proposed to be used by an interconnection customer to generate electricity that operates in parallel with the electric distribution system or local electric power system. QUALIFYING FACILITIES that are not generating facilities hereunder may qualify for interconnection with the town’s utility services under provisions of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), but the terms and conditions of interconnection shall be determined on a case-by-case basis.
SYSTEM UPGRADES. The additions, modifications and upgrades to the town’s distribution system at or beyond the point of interconnection to the generating facility and render the transmission service necessary to affect the interconnection customer’s wholesale sale of electricity in interstate commerce. Distribution upgrades do not include interconnection facilities.
(Ord. 2019-1, passed 1-7-2019)