California Code of Regulations
Title 17 - Public Health
Division 3 - Air Resources
Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board
Subchapter 10 - Climate Change
Article 3 - Fees
Subarticle 1 - AB 32 Cost of Implementation Fee Regulation
Section 95202 - Definitions

(1) "AB 32" means the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Assembly Bill 32, Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006, as codified in Health and Safety Code section 38500 et seq.

(2) "Acid gas reagent" means a substance used to chemically remove acid gases from industrial exhaust streams.

(3) "Acid gas scrubbers" mean a diverse group of air pollution control devices that can be used to remove some particulates and/or gases from industrial exhaust streams.

(4) "Annual" means with a frequency of once a year; unless otherwise noted, annual events, such as reporting requirements, will be based on the calendar year.

(5) "ARB" or "Board" means the California Air Resources Board.

(6) "Asset-controlling supplier" means any entity that owns or operates inter-connected electricity generating facilities or serves as an exclusive marketer for these facilities even though it does not own them, and is assigned a supplier-specific identification number and system emission factor by ARB for the wholesale electricity procured from its system and imported into California.

(7) "Associated gas" means a natural gas fuel produced in association with crude oil from any oil well and subsequently burned in the field as a fuel.

(8) "Aviation gasoline" means a complex mixture of volatile hydrocarbons, with or without additives, suitably blended to be used in aviation reciprocating engines. Specifications can be found in ASTM Specification D910-07a, Standard Specification for Aviation Gasolines, which is incorporated by reference herein.

(9) "Balancing authority" means the responsible entity that integrates resource plans ahead of time, maintains load-interchange-generation balance within a balancing authority area, and supports interconnection frequency in real time.

(10) "Balancing authority area" means the collection of generation, transmission, and loads within the metered boundaries of a balancing authority. A balancing authority maintains load-resource balance within this area.

(11) "Billing address" means the address where the party responsible for payment would receive an invoice.

(12) "Bigeneration unit" means a unit that simultaneously generates electricity and useful thermal energy from the same fuel source but without waste heat recovery. An example of bigeneration includes a boiler generating steam that is split into two streams, and one stream powers a steam turbine to generate electricity, while the other stream is used for other industrial, commercial, or heating and cooling purposes that are not in support of or a part of the electricity generation system.

(13) "Biodiesel" means a diesel fuel substitute produced from nonpetroleum renewable resources that meet the registration requirements for fuels and fuel additives established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under section 211 of the Clean Air Act. It includes biodiesel that is all of the following:

(14) "Biogas" (also called biomethane) means gas that is produced from the breakdown of organic material in the absence of oxygen. Biogas is produced in processes including, but not limited to, anaerobic digestion, anaerobic decomposition, and thermochemical decomposition. These processes are applied to biodegradable biomass materials, such as manure, sewage, municipal solid waste, green waste, and waste from energy crops, to produce landfill gas, digester gas, and other forms of biogas.

(15) "Biogenic emissions" means GHG emissions generated as the result of biomass combustion from combustion units.

(16) "Biomass" means non-fossilized and biodegradable organic material originating from plants, animals and micro-organisms, including products, byproducts, residues and waste from agriculture, forestry and related industries as well as the non-fossilized and biodegradable organic fractions of industrial and municipal wastes, including gases and liquids recovered from the decomposition of non-fossilized and biodegradable organic material. For the purpose of this subarticle, biomass includes both California Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) eligible and non-eligible biomass as defined by the California Energy Commission.

(17) "Busbar" means a power conduit of a facility with electricity generating units that serves as the starting point for the electricity transmission system.

(18) "Calendar year" means the time period from January 1 through December 31.

(19) "California balancing authority" means a balancing authority with control over a balancing authority area primarily located in the State of California. A California balancing authority is responsible for the operation of the transmission grid within its metered boundaries which may extend beyond the geographical boundaries of the State of California.

(20) "California gasoline" has the same meaning as defined in title 13, California Code of Regulations, section 2260(a).

For California gasoline,

(21) "California reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending," or "CARBOB," has the same meaning as defined in title 13, California Code of Regulations, section 2260(a).

For CARBOB,

(22) "California diesel fuel" has the same meaning as "Vehicular Diesel Fuel," as defined in title 13, California Code of Regulations, section 2282(b).

For California diesel fuel,

(23) "Carbon dioxide" or "CO2" means the most common of the six primary greenhouse gases, consisting on a molecular level of a single carbon atom and two oxygen atoms.

(24) "Carbon dioxide equivalent" or "CO2 equivalent" or "CO2e" means the number of metric tons of CO2 emissions with the same global warming potential as one metric ton of another greenhouse gas. For the purposes of this subarticle, global warming potential values listed in Table A-1 of 40 CFR Part 98 are used to determine the CO2 equivalent of emissions.

(25) "Catalyst" means a substance added to a chemical reaction, which facilitates or causes the reaction, and is not consumed by the reaction.

(26) "Catalyst coke" means carbon that is deposited on a catalyst, thus deactivating the catalyst.

(27) "Cement" means a building material that is produced by heating mixtures of limestone and other minerals or additives at high temperatures in a rotary kiln to form clinker, followed by cooling and grinding with blended additives. Finished cement is a powder used with water, sand and gravel to make concrete and mortar.

(28) "Cement manufacturer" means an owner or operator of a cement plant.

(29) "Cement plant" means an industrial structure, installation, plant or building primarily engaged in manufacturing Portland, natural, masonry, pozzolanic, or other hydraulic cements, and typically identified by North American Industry Classification System Code 327310.

(30) "Clinker" means the mass of fused material produced in a cement kiln from which finished cement is manufactured by milling and grinding.

(31) "Coal" means all solid fuels classified as anthracite, bituminous, sub-bituminous, or lignite by ASTM D388-05 "Standard Classification of Coals by Rank" (September 2005), which is incorporated by reference herein.

(32) "Coal Coke" means a solid residue high in carbon content produced by the destructive distillation of coal at high temperatures in either a by-product coke oven battery or a non-recovery coke oven battery.

(33) "Cogeneration" means an integrated system that produces electric energy and useful thermal energy for industrial, commercial, or heating and cooling purposes, through the sequential or simultaneous use of the original fuel energy. Cogeneration must involve generation of electricity and useful thermal energy and some form of waste heat recovery. Some examples of cogeneration include:

(34) "Cogeneration facility" means an industrial structure, installation, plant, or building or self-generation facility, which may include one or more cogeneration units configured as either a topping cycling or bottoming cycling plant.

(35) "Cogeneration system" means individual cogeneration components including the prime mover (heat engine), generator, heat recovery, and electrical interconnection, configured into an integrated system that provides sequential or simultaneous generation of multiple forms of useful energy, one of which must be electricity, and at least one form of which the facility consumes on-site or makes available to other users for an end-use other than electricity generation.

(36) "Cogeneration unit" means a unit that produces electric energy and useful thermal energy for industrial, commercial, or heating and cooling purposes, through the sequential or simultaneous use of the original fuel energy and waste heat recovery.

(37) "Combust" means the process of burning or setting fire to a fuel.

(38) "Combustion emissions" means greenhouse gas emissions occurring during the exothermic reaction of a fuel with oxygen.

(39) "Consumption" means to use, decay or destruct.

(40) "Consumed on-site" means to consume at a facility.

(41) "Continuous physical transmission path" means the full transmission path shown in the physical path table of a single NERC e-Tag from the first point of receipt closest to the generation source to the final point of delivery closest to the final sink. This is one criterion to establish direct delivery.

(42) "Cracking" means the process of breaking down larger molecules into smaller molecules, utilizing catalysts and/or elevated temperatures and pressures.

(43) "Debt" means those loans obtained by the Board, and required by the Legislature to be repaid, to carry out AB 32 for fiscal years 2007/08, 2008/09, and 2009/10.

(44) "Delivered electricity" means electricity that was distributed from a PSE and received by a PSE or electricity that was generated, transmitted, and consumed.

(45) "Direct delivery of electricity" or "directly delivered" means electricity that meets any of the following criteria:

(46) "EIA" means the Energy Information Administration. The EIA is a statistical agency of the United States Department of Energy.

(47) "Electricity delivered in California" means electricity that is delivered to a point of interconnection with the California electricity transmission and distribution systems. For electricity that is generated in California, the electricity is delivered from a specified source at the busbar. For electricity generated outside California from specified or unspecified sources, the electricity is delivered to a point of delivery in California for consumption in California.

(48) "Electricity fee rate" means the rate charged per megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity generated at a specified source based on a specified source's emission factor, or generated at unspecified sources and based on the default emission factor for unspecified sources.

(49) "Electricity generating facility" means a facility that generates electricity and includes one or more generating units at the same location.

(50) "Electricity generating unit" or "EGU" means any combination of physically connected generator(s), reactor(s), boiler(s), combustion turbine(s), or other prime mover(s) operated together to produce electric power.

(51) "Electricity importers" deliver imported electricity. For electricity that is scheduled with a NERC e-Tag to a final point of delivery inside the State of California, the electricity importer is identified on the NERC e-Tag as the purchasing-selling entity (PSE) on the last segment of the tag's physical path with the point of receipt located outside the State of California and the point of delivery located inside the State of California. For facilities physically located outside the State of California with first point of interconnection to a California balancing authority's transmission and distribution system, when the electricity is not scheduled on a NERC e-Tag, the importer is the facility operator or scheduling coordinator. Federal and State agencies are subject to the regulatory authority of ARB under this article and include Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), and California Department of Water Resources (DWR). Electricity Importers include Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinators serving the EIM market whose transactions result in imports into California.

(52) "Eligible renewable energy resource" has the same meaning as defined in Section 399.12 of the Public Utilities Code.

(53) "Emissions" means the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from sources and processes, including from the combustion of transportation fuels, such as natural gas, petroleum products, and natural gas liquids.

(54) "Emissions data report" or "greenhouse gas emissions data report" or "report" means the report prepared by an operator or fuel supplier each year and submitted by electronic means to ARB that provides the information required by the Mandatory Reporting Regulation and to comply with this subarticle.

(55) "Emission factor" means a unique value for determining an amount of a greenhouse gas emitted for a given quantity of activity (e.g., metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted per gallon of gasoline burned).

(56) "End user" means a final purchaser of an energy product, such as electricity, thermal energy, or natural gas not for the purposes of retransmission or resale. In the context of natural gas consumption, an "end user" is the point to which natural gas is delivered for consumption or combustion.

(57) "Energy Imbalance Market" or "EIM" means the operation of the CAISO's real-time market to manage transmission congestion and optimize procurement of energy to balance supply and demand for the combined CAISO and EIM footprint.

(58) "Entity" means a person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, government agency, or public district.

(59) "Exclusive marketer" means a marketer that has exclusive rights to market electricity for a generating facility or group of generating facilities.

(60) "Executive Officer" means the Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board, or his or her delegate.

(61) "Exported electricity" means electricity generated inside the State of California and delivered to serve load located outside the State of California. This includes electricity delivered from a first point of receipt inside California, to the first point of delivery outside California, with a final point of delivery outside the State of California. Exported electricity delivered across balancing authority areas is documented on NERC E-Tags with the first point of receipt located inside the State of California and the final point of delivery located outside the State of California. Exported electricity does not include electricity generated inside the State of California then transmitted outside of California, but with a final point of delivery inside the State of California. Exported electricity does not include electricity generated inside the State of California that is allocated to serve the California retail customers of a multi-jurisdictional retail provider, consistent with a cost allocation methodology approved by the California Public Utilities Commission and the utility regulatory commission of at least one additional state in which the multi-jurisdictional retail provider provides retail electric service.

(62) "Facility" means any physical property, plant, building, structure, source, or stationary equipment located on one or more contiguous or adjacent properties in actual physical contact or separated solely by a public roadway or other public right-of-way and under common ownership or common control, that emits or may emit any greenhouse gas. Operators of military installations may classify such installations as more than a single facility based on distinct and independent functional groupings within contiguous military properties.

(63) "Fee determination notice" means the notice or invoice provided by ARB to entities regulated by this subarticle stating the dollar amount due.

(64) "Feedstock" means the raw material supplied to a process.

(65) "Final point of delivery" means the sink specified on the NERC e-Tag, where defined points have been established through the NERC Registry. When NERC e-Tags are not used to document electricity deliveries, as may be the case within a balancing authority, the final point of delivery is the location of the load. Exported electricity is disaggregated by the final point of delivery on the NERC e-Tag.

(66) "First deliverer of electricity" or "first deliverer" means the owner or operator of an electricity generating facility in California, or an electricity importer.

(67) "First point of delivery in California" means the first defined point on the transmission system located inside California at which imported electricity and electricity wheeled through California may be measured, consistent with defined points that have been established through the NERC Registry.

(68) "First point of receipt" means the generation source specified on the NERC e-Tag, where defined points have been established through the NERC Registry. When NERC e-Tags are not used to document electricity deliveries, as may be the case within a balancing authority, the first point of receipt is the location of the individual generating facility or unit, or group of generating facilities or units. Imported electricity and wheeled electricity are disaggregated by the first point of receipt on the NERC e-Tag.

(69) "Fiscal year" means the time period from July 1 to June 30.

(70) "Fossil Fuel" means natural gas, petroleum, coal, or any form of solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel derived from such material.

(71) "Fuel" means solid, liquid or gaseous combustible material. Volatile organic compounds burned in destruction devices are not fuels unless they can sustain combustion without use of a pilot fuel and such destruction does not result in a commercially useful end product.

(72) "Fuel fee rate" means the rate charged per MTCO2 produced by greenhouse gas sources specific to the fuel combusted and calculated by ARB.

(73) "Fuel supplier" means a supplier of petroleum products, a supplier of biomass-derived transportation fuels, a supplier of natural gas, or a supplier of liquid petroleum gas as specified in the Mandatory Reporting Regulation.

(74) "Gallon" means the United States gallon of 231 cubic inches or the volumetric gallon adjusted to 60 degrees Fahrenheit when the invoice and settlement is made on the temperature corrected gallonage.

(75) "Gas well" means a well completed for production of natural gas from one or more gas zones or reservoirs. Such wells contain no completions for the production of crude oil.

(76) "Generated electricity" means electricity generated by an electricity generating unit at the reporting facility. Generated electricity does not include any electricity that is generated outside the facility and delivered into the facility with final destination outside of the facility.

(77) "Generating unit" means any combination of physically connected generator(s), reactor(s), boiler(s), combustion turbine(s), or other prime mover(s) operated together to produce electric power.

(78) "Global warming potential" or "GWP" means the ratio of the time-integrated radiative forcing from the instantaneous release of one kilogram of a trace substance relative to that of one kilogram of a reference gas, i.e., CO2.

(79) "Government agency" means any agency as defined in Government Code section 11000.

(80) "Greenhouse gas source" means any physical unit, process, or other use or activity that releases a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

(81) "Grid" or "electric power grid" means a system of synchronized power providers and consumers connected by transmission and distribution lines and operated by one or more control centers.

(82) "Grid-dedicated facility" means an electricity generating facility in which all net power generated is destined for distribution on the grid through retail providers or electricity marketers, ultimately serving wholesale or retail customers of the grid.

(83) "Gross generation" or "gross power generated" means the total electrical output of the generating facility or unit, expressed in megawatt hours (MWh) per year.

(84) "Imported electricity" means electricity generated outside the State of California and delivered to serve load located inside the State of California. Imported electricity includes electricity delivered across balancing authority areas from a first point of receipt located outside the State of California, to the first point of delivery located inside the State of California, having a final point of delivery in California. Imported electricity includes electricity imported into California over a multi-jurisdictional retail provider's transmission and distribution system, or electricity imported into the State of California from a facility or unit physically located outside the State of California with the first point of interconnection to a California balancing authority's transmission and distribution system. Imported electricity includes electricity that is a result of cogeneration located outside the State of California. Imported electricity does not include electricity wheeled through California, defined pursuant to this subsection. Imported electricity does not include electricity imported into the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) balancing authority area to serve retail customers that are located within CAISO balancing authority area, but outside the State of California. Imported Electricity does not include electricity imported into California by an Independent System Operator to obtain or provide emergency assistance under applicable emergency preparedness and operations reliability standards of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation or Western Electricity Coordinating Council. Imported electricity shall include Energy Imbalance Market dispatches designated by the CAISO's optimization model and reported by the CAISO to EIM Participating Resource Scheduling Coordinators as electricity imported to serve retail customers load that are located within the State of California.

(85) "Interstate pipeline" means any entity that owns or operates a natural gas pipeline delivering natural gas to consumers in the State and is subject to rate regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

(86) "Intrastate pipeline" means any pipeline wholly within the State of California that is not regulated as a public utility gas corporation by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), not a publicly-owned natural gas utility and is not regulated as an interstate pipeline by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

(87) "Kerosene" is a light petroleum distillate with a maximum distillation temperature of 400°F at the 10-percent recovery point, a final maximum boiling point of 572°F, a minimum flash point of 100°F, and a maximum freezing point of -22°F. Included are No. 1-K and No. 2-K, distinguished by maximum sulfur content (0.04 and 0.30 percent of total mass, respectively), as well as all other grades of kerosene called range or stove oil. "Kerosene" does not include kerosene-type jet fuel.

(88) "Kerosene type jet fuel" means a kerosene-based product used in commercial and military turbojet and turboprop aircraft. The product has a maximum distillation temperature of 400°F at the 10 percent recovery point and a final maximum boiling point of 572°F. Included are Jet A, Jet A-1, JP-5, and JP-8.

(89) "Liquefied petroleum gas" or "LP-Gas" or "LPG" means a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel. LPG is a natural gas liquid (NGL) that is primarily a mixture of propane and butane, with small amounts of propene (propylene) and ethane. The most common specification categories are propane grades HD-5, HD-10, and commercial grade propane, and propane/butane mix. LPG also includes both odorized and non-odorized liquid petroleum gas, and is also referred to as propane.

(90) "Local distribution company" or "LDC" for purposes of this article, means a company that owns or operates distribution pipelines, not interstate pipelines, that physically deliver natural gas to end users and includes public utility gas corporations, publicly-owned natural gas utilities and intrastate pipelines.

(91) "Mandatory Reporting Regulation" means ARB's Regulation for the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, as set forth in title 17, California Code of Regulations, Chapter 1, Subchapter 10, article 2 (commencing with section 95100).

(92) "Marketer" means a purchasing-selling entity that delivers electricity and is not a retail provider.

(93) "Megawatt-hour" or "MWh" means the electrical energy unit of measure equal to one million watts of power supplied to, or taken from, an electric circuit steadily for one hour.

(94) "Meter" means a device designed to measure, record or regulate the amount or volume of the flow of a gas.

(95) "Metric ton" or "MT" means a common international measurement for mass, equivalent to 2204.6 pounds, or 1.1 short tons.

(96) "MMBtu" means million British thermal units.

(97) "Motor vehicle" has the same meaning as defined in section 415 of the Vehicle Code.

(98) "Multi-jurisdictional retail provider" means a retail provider that provides electricity to consumers in California and in one or more other states in a contiguous service territory or from a common power system.

(99) "Municipal Solid Waste" means solid phase household, commercial/retail, and/or institutional waste. Household waste includes material discarded by single and multiple residential dwellings, hotels, motels, and other similar permanent or temporary housing establishments or facilities. Commercial/retail waste includes material discarded by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, non-manufacturing activities at industrial facilities, and other similar establishments or facilities. Institutional waste includes material discarded by schools, nonmedical waste discarded by hospitals, material discarded by non-manufacturing activities at prisons and government facilities, and material discarded by other similar establishments or facilities. Household, commercial/retail, and institutional wastes include yard waste, refuse-derived fuel, and motor vehicle maintenance materials. Insofar as there is separate collection, processing and disposal of industrial source waste streams consisting of used oil, wood pallets, construction, renovation, and demolition wastes (which includes, but is not limited to, railroad ties and telephone poles), paper, clean wood, plastics, industrial process or manufacturing wastes, medical waste, motor vehicle parts or vehicle fluff, or used tires that do not contain hazardous waste identified or listed under 42 U.S.C. § 6921, such wastes are not Municipal Solid Waste. However, such wastes qualify as Municipal Solid Waste where they are collected with other Municipal Solid Waste or are otherwise combined with other Municipal Solid Waste for processing and/or disposal.

(100) "Nameplate generating capacity" means the maximum rated output of a generator under specific conditions designated by the manufacturer. Generator nameplate capacity is usually indicated in units of kilovolt-amperes (kVA) and in Kilowatts (kW) on a nameplate physically attached to the generator.

(101) "Natural gas" means a naturally occurring mixture or process derivative of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases found in geologic formations beneath the earth's surface, of which its constituents include methane, heavier hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide. Natural gas may be field quality (which varies widely) or pipeline quality. For the purposes of this subarticle, the definition of natural gas includes similarly constituted fuels such as field production gas, process gas, and fuel gas.

(102) "Natural gas importer" means any entity that receives natural gas from a party that is not a public gas corporation, as defined in this subarticle, that consumes and/or distributes natural gas to consumers of natural gas.

(103) "NERC E-tag" means North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) energy tag representing transactions on the North American bulk electricity market scheduled to flow between or across balancing authority areas.

(104) "Net generation" or "Net power generated" means the gross generation minus station service or unit service power requirements, expressed in megawatt hours (MWh) per year. In the case of cogeneration, this value is intended to include internal consumption of electricity for the purposes of a production process, as well as power put on the grid.

(105) "Oil well" means a well completed for the production of crude oil from at least one oil zone or reservoir.

(106) "Operational control" for a facility subject to this subarticle means the authority to introduce and implement operating, environmental, health and safety policies. In any circumstance where this authority is shared among multiple entities, the entity holding the permit to operate from the local air pollution control district or air quality management district is considered to have operational control for purposes of this subarticle.

(107) "Operator" means the entity, including an owner, having operational control of a facility. For onshore petroleum and natural gas production, the operator is the operating entity listed on the State well drilling permit, or a State operating permit for wells where no drilling permit is issued by the State.

(108) "Owner" means the entity having title to the property or assets which are subject to the fee.

(109) "Oxygenate" is any oxygen-containing, ashless, organic compound, such as an alcohol or ether, which, when added to gasoline, increases the amount of oxygen in gasoline.

(110) "Payment period" means 60 days from the invoice date, as stated in section 95205, each calendar year.

(111) "Petroleum coke" means a black solid residue, obtained mainly by cracking and carbonizing of petroleum derived feedstocks, vacuum bottoms, tar and pitches in processes such as delayed coking or fluid coking. It consists mainly of carbon (90 to 95 percent), has low ash content, and may be used as a feedstock in coke ovens. This product is also known as marketable coke.

(112) "Petroleum refinery" or "refinery" means any facility engaged in producing gasoline, gasoline blending stocks, naphtha, kerosene, distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, or asphalt (bitumen) through distillation of petroleum or through redistillation, cracking, or reforming of unfinished petroleum derivatives. Facilities that distill only pipeline transmix (off-spec material created when different specification products mix during pipeline transportation) are not petroleum refineries, regardless of the products produced.

(113) "Point of delivery" or "POD" means a point on an electricity transmission or distribution system where a deliverer makes electricity available to the receiver, or available to serve load. This point can be an interconnection with another system or a substation where the transmission provider's transmission and distribution systems are connected to another system, or a distribution substation where electricity is imported into California over a multi-jurisdictional retail provider's distribution system.

(114) "Point of receipt" or "POR" means the point on an electricity transmission or distribution system where an electricity receiver receives electricity from a deliverer. This point can be an interconnection with another system or a substation where the transmission provider's transmission and distribution systems are connected to another system.

(115) "Power" means electricity, except where the context makes clear that another meaning is intended.

(116) "Process" means the intentional or unintentional reactions between substances or their transformation, including, but not limited to, the chemical or electrolytic reduction of metal ores, the thermal decomposition of substances, and the formation of substances for use as product or feedstock.

(117) "Process emissions" means the emissions from industrial processes (e.g., cement production, ammonia production) involving chemical or physical transformations other than fuel combustion. For example, the calcination of carbonates in a kiln during cement production or the oxidation of methane in an ammonia process results in the release of process CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Emissions from fuel combustion to provide process heat are not part of process emissions, whether the combustion is internal or external to the process equipment.

(118) "Produced on-site" means produced at a facility.

(119) "Propane" is a paraffinic hydrocarbon with molecular formula C3H8.

(120) "Publicly-owned natural gas utility" means a municipality or municipal corporation, a municipal utility district, a public utility district, or a joint powers authority that includes one or more of these agencies that furnishes natural gas services to end users.

(121) "Public utility gas corporation" means a gas corporation as defined in California Public Utilities Code section 222 that is also a public utility as defined in California Public Utilities Code section 216.

(122) "Purchasing-selling entity" or "PSE" means the entity that is identified on a NERC E-tag for each physical path segment.

(123) "Qualified exports" means electricity that is exported in the same hour as imported electricity and documented by NERC E-tags. When imports are not documented on NERC E-tags, because a facility or unit located outside the State of California has a first point of interconnection with a California balancing authority area, the reporting entity may demonstrate hourly electricity delivery consistent with the record keeping requirements of the California balancing authority area, including records of revenue quality meter data, invoices, or settlements data. Only electricity exported within the same hour and by the same importer as the imported electricity is a qualified export. It is not necessary for the imported and exported electricity (as defined in this subarticle) to enter or leave California at the same intertie. Qualified exports shall not result in a negative fee liability for any hour.

(124) "Refinery fuel gas" means gas generated at a petroleum refinery or any gas generated by a refinery process unit, and that is combusted separately or in any combination with any type of gas or used as a chemical feedstock.

(125) "Renewable diesel" means a motor vehicle fuel or fuel additive that is all of the following:

(126) "Renewable energy" means energy from sources that constantly renew themselves or that are regarded as practically inexhaustible. Renewable energy includes energy derived from solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, wood, biomass, tidal power, sea currents, and ocean thermal gradients.

(127) "Renewable Energy Credit" or "REC" has the same meaning defined in the California Energy Commission's "Renewable Portfolio Standard Eligibility," 7th edition, Commission Guidebook, April, 2013, CEC-300-2013-005-ED7-CMF, pages 123-125, which are incorporated by reference herein.

(128) "Reporting entity" means a facility owner or operator, fuel supplier, or electricity importer subject to the requirements of this subarticle.

(129) "Report Year" or "Reporting Year" means the calendar year for which emissions are being reported in the emissions data report.

(130) "Residual fuel oil" means a general classification for the heavier oils, known as No. 5 and No. 6 fuel oils, that remain after the distillate fuel oils and lighter hydrocarbons are distilled away in refinery operations.

(131) "Retail provider" means an entity that provides electricity to retail end users in California and is an electric corporation as defined in Public Utilities Code section 218, electric service provider as defined in Public Utilities Code section 218.3, local publicly owned electric utility as defined in Public Utilities Code section 224.3, a community choice aggregator as defined in Public Utilities Code section 331.1, or the Western Area Power Administration. For purposes of this subarticle, electrical cooperatives, as defined by Public Utilities Code section 2776, are excluded.

(132) "Self-generation facility" means a facility dedicated to serving a particular electricity end user, usually located on the user's premises. The facility may either be owned directly by the electricity user or owned by an entity with a contractual arrangement to provide electricity to meet some or all of the user's load.

(133) "Short ton" or "Ton" means a common international measurement for mass, equivalent to 2,000 pounds.

(134) "Sink" or "sink to load" or "load sink" means the sink identified on the physical path of NERC e-Tags, where defined points have been established through the NERC Registry. Exported electricity is disaggregated by the sink on the NERC e-Tag, also referred to as the final point of delivery on the NERC e-Tag.

(135) "Source" means greenhouse gas source, any physical unit, process, or other use or activity that releases a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

(136) "Specified source of electricity" or "specified source" means a facility or unit which is permitted to be claimed as the source of electricity delivered. The reporting entity must have either full or partial ownership in the facility/unit or a written power contract to procure electricity generated by that facility/unit. Specified facilities/units include cogeneration systems. Specified source also means electricity procured from an asset-controlling supplier recognized by the ARB.

(137) "Stand-alone electricity generating facility" means an electricity generating facility whose primary business and sole industrial operation is electricity generation, and is not a cogeneration or bigeneration facility.

(138) "Stationary" means neither portable nor self propelled, and operated at a single facility.

(139) "Substitute power" or "substitute electricity" means electricity that is provided to meet the terms of a power purchase contract with a specified facility or unit when that facility or unit is not generating electricity.

(140) "Therm" means a unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units (1.054 x 108 joules).

(141) "Thermal energy" means the thermal output produced by a combustion source used directly as part of a manufacturing process, industrial/commercial process, or heating/cooling application, but not used to produce electricity.

(142) "Unspecified source of electricity" or "unspecified source" means a source of electricity that is not a specified source at the time of entry into the transaction to procure the electricity.

(143) "Useful thermal output" means the thermal energy made available in a cogeneration system for use in any industrial or commercial process, heating or cooling application, or delivered to other end users, i.e., total thermal energy made available for processes and applications other than electrical generation.

(144) "Wholesale sales" in the context of delivered electricity, means sales for resale.