Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 46 - Electric Reliability Organizations and Integrated Resource Planning
Article 4 - General Provisions
3 AAC 46.999 - Definitions

(1) "capacity" means nameplate capacity within the meaning given in 3 AAC 50.949;

(2) "single site" means facilities owned by the same entity and

(1) that address the subject matter enumerated in AS 42.05.762(3); and

(2) that the organization must establish under AS 42.05.762(3).

(1) "balanced stakeholder board" means an electric reliability organization board that meets the requirements of 3 AAC 46.060(b);

(2) "board" means the governing body of an applicant or certificated electric reliability organization appropriate to the business form under which it is organized;

(3) "business day" means a day other than Saturday, Sunday, or a state legal holiday;

(4) "capitalized maintenance" means a significant expense that

(5) "committee" means a committee, subcommittee, working group, task force, advisory committee, or other topic-specific group that plays a role in electric reliability organization decision making;

(6) "consumer" means a person that purchases electricity that was transmitted on, or generated on or stored on facilities connected to, an interconnected bulk-electric system;

(7) "consumer stakeholder" means a person, other than a provider stakeholder, that receives electricity services from a provider stakeholder furnished through tariff or special contract, including a person that indirectly receives services continuously, such as a landlord or an employer that furnishes housing, that are paid for by a tenant or another consumer;

(8) "electric reliability organization" has the meaning given in AS 42.05.790;

(9) electric utility" has the meaning given in AS 42.05.790;

(10) "hybrid stakeholder" means a person that has characteristics of both a provider stakeholder and a consumer stakeholder but whose interests might not be adequately presented or considered if exclusively classified as a provider stakeholder or a consumer stakeholder;

(11) "immediate family member" means

(12) "implementation plan" means a document setting out the steps necessary to put a reliability standard into practice;

(13) "independent," with respect to voting members of the board of an electric reliability organization, means a director that may serve on the board of an electric reliability organization formed under AS 42.05.762(4)(B)(i);

(14) "interconnected bulk-electric system" has the meaning given in AS 42.05.790;

(15) "interconnected electric energy transmission network" has the meaning given in AS 42.05.790;

(16) "large energy facility" has the meaning given in AS 42.05.785(e); in that definition, "capacity" and "single site" have the meanings given in (a) of this section;

(17) "load-serving entity" has the meaning given in AS 42.05.790;

(18) "net energy for load"

(19) "provider stakeholder" means a person that is a user, owner, or operator that provides electric energy, capacity, transmission, distribution, or storage to the public for direct compensation;

(20) "public notice" means a notice written in a format substantially the same as tariff filings noticed under 3 AAC 48.280;

(21) "refurbishment" means expenses that a load-serving entity incurs to restore an asset to a previous operating condition;

(22) "registered entity" means a user, owner, or operator registered with the electric reliability organization and subject to reliability standards approved by the electric reliability organization and the commission;

(23) "reliability standard" means a standard identified in AS 42.05.765(a)(1) or (2)(A) or (B) or any class of operating standard for the interconnected electric energy transmission network, including balancing, modeling, protective relaying, reserve sharing, transmission planning, and reactive power generation and control;

(24) "reliable operation" has the meaning given in AS 42.05.790;

(25) "resource option" means

(26) "resource portfolio" means a mix of resource options that could meet customers' collective needs, as projected in an integrated resource plan;

(27) "stakeholder" means a provider stakeholder, a consumer stakeholder, or a hybrid stakeholder;

(28) "user, owner, or operator" means a person or entity that