Nev. Admin. Code § 704.516 - Definitions
Current through March 28, 2022
As used in NAC 704.516 to 704.528, inclusive, and sections 2 to 5, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Alternative fuel capable
customer" means a generating customer, industrial customer or large commercial
customer, as defined in
NRS
704.075, of a natural gas utility who obtains
natural gas from the natural gas utility but has the capability of using a fuel
other than natural gas.
2. "Bona
fide alternative" means an option available to a customer to utilize facilities
other than those of the utility that transports natural gas:
(a) Which is economically, physically and
operationally feasible and imminent; and
(b) For which the comparable cost to the
customer to bypass the system of the utility is less than the utility's
otherwise applicable rate to serve that customer over a specified primary
contractual period at issue in an application for approval filed with the
Commission.
3. "Contract
for special services" means a contract between a natural gas utility and a
transportation customer other than a contract that complies with an approved
schedule that specifies the methods, terms, conditions and rates that are
negotiated or differ from the otherwise applicable rate.
4. "Discount" means a reduction to the
otherwise applicable volumetric or demand components of a transportation
customer's otherwise applicable rate. The volumetric or demand rate component
must not be equal to or less than zero.
5. "Discounted rate contract" means a
contract that is filed by a utility for a discount on certain volumetric or
demand components of a transportation customer's rate in conformance with the
approved schedule the utility has on file with the Commission.
6. "Incremental costs" means any direct
capital and operating and maintenance costs, including, without limitation, any
fixed costs that have not been fully depreciated, incurred by a natural gas
utility in serving a transportation customer with a discounted rate contract or
a contract for special services.
7.
"Memorandum" means a written notice from the utility to the Commission of any
change to rates for an alternative fuel capable customer pursuant to a schedule
approved by the Commission.
8.
"Otherwise applicable rate" means the otherwise applicable cost-of-service rate
schedules.
9. "Schedule" has the
meaning ascribed to it in
NRS
704.066.
10. "Transportation customer" means a
customer of a natural gas utility who obtains natural gas from a competitive
third-party supplier and transports the customer-owned natural gas through the
distribution system of the natural gas utility using the facilities of the
natural gas utility.
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