Unless the context indicates otherwise, in
3 AAC 50.750 -
3 AAC 50.820
(1) "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, the
utility would generate or purchase from another source;
(2) "back-up power" means electric power
supplied by an electric utility during an unscheduled power outage of a
facility to replace energy ordinarily generated by the facility's own
generation equipment;
(3)
"cogeneration" means the production of electric energy and forms of useful
thermal energy (such as heat or steam), employed for industrial, commercial,
heating, or cooling purposes, through the sequential use of energy;
(4) "detent meter" means a watt-hour meter
which can turn in only a forward direction and which is used to measure the
number of kilowatt-hours sold to a qualifying facility by an electric
utility;
(5) "electric power" means
electric energy or capacity, or both;
(6) "firm power" means electric power
supplied to the electric utility in predetermined and reliable quantities at
specific times and intervals;
(7)
"interruptible power" means electric power supplied by an electric utility
subject to interruption by the electric utility under specified
conditions;
(8) "maintenance power"
means electric power supplied by an electric utility during scheduled power
outages of the qualifying facility;
(9) repealed 3/11/2016;
(10) "parallel operation" means a method of
interconnection which enables a qualifying facility to generate electric power
to meet its electrical consumption needs first and to automatically transmit
any surplus electric power to the electric utility, and which also enables the
qualifying facility to automatically purchase power from the electric utility
if the qualifying facility cannot generate enough power to meet its electrical
demands;
(11) "qualifying facility"
has the meaning given in 18
C.F.R.
292.101(b)(1),
revised as of April 1, 2015, and adopted by reference;
(12) "supplementary power" means electric
energy or capacity supplied by an electric utility, regularly used by a
qualifying facility in addition to that which the facility generates
itself;
(13) "system emergency"
means a condition on a utility's system which is likely to result in imminent
significant disruption of service to customers or is imminently likely to
endanger life or property;
(14)
"design capacity" means the generator's nameplate rating measured in
kilowatts.
