Code of Maine Rules
95 - INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
648 - EFFICIENCY MAINE TRUST
Chapter 4 - Natural Gas Energy Conservation Programs (formerly Ch. 480)
Section 648-4-2 - DEFINITIONS

A-1. Board. "Board" means the Board of Trustees of the Efficiency Maine Trust.

A. Gas conservation programs. "Gas conservation programs" means programs developed by the Trust pursuant to 35-A M.R.S.A. §10111 and this Chapter.

B. Gas Distribution Utility. "Gas distribution utility" means a gas utility as defined in 35-A M.R.S.A. §102(8).

C. Low-income residential consumer. "Low-income residential consumer" means a customer of a gas utility receiving any special utility rates or programs designated for low-income customers or a household that is heated with natural gas from any utility and has qualified at any time in the prior 12 month period to receive assistance through any state or federal program in which low income and/or limited assets are criteria for eligibility.

C-1. Maximum Achievable Cost-Effective Energy Conservation (MACE)." Maximum Achievable Cost-Effective Energy Conservation" or "MACE" means all cost-effective, reliable, and achievable energy conservation savings for purposes of 35-A M.R.S.A. §§10104(4) and 10111. In this Chapter, the term MACE applies to a quantity of natural gas savings and a budget for Trust programs that is reasonably likely to achieve that savings.

D. Measure. "Measure" means a device, application, operation or any combination thereof that is installed or implemented as a result of a program and that improves energy efficiency.

E. Participant. "Participant" means a customer who directly takes part in a gas conservation program.

F. Small business consumer. "Small business consumer" means a commercial customer of a gas distribution utility that has an annual usage of 40,000 ccf or less.