New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 14 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
Chapter 8 - RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Subchapter 11 - SUCCESSOR SOLAR INCENTIVE PROGRAM
Section 14:8-11.2 - Definitions
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
For the purposes of this subchapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Associated disturbed areas" means areas, that may themselves not have been contaminated, but after considering tax and property records, as well as historical land use, are, or were, the site of an accessory use to contaminated areas or landfills. Examples include access roads, lay-down areas, and former building sites that were previously part of an industrial or landfill complex.
"Associated solar facility" means the solar facility linked to a storage facility by the bid into the CSI Program.
"Co-location" means siting two or more SuSI-eligible solar facilities on the same property or on contiguous properties, such that the individual facilities are eligible for a higher incentive value than they would be if they were combined into one single facility. In the case of net metered projects, SuSI-eligible solar facilities shall be not be deemed co-located if they serve separate net metering customers as defined at N.J.A.C. 14:8-4.
"Commencing commercial operation" means having obtained permission to operate (PTO) from the relevant electric distribution company.
"Contaminated site or landfill" means the same as that term is defined pursuant to the Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act, N.J.S.A. 48:3-51.
"Municipal electric utility" means a municipal, county, or other governmental entity, or a regional cooperative, which owns and/or operates an electric distribution system in New Jersey.
"New Jersey SREC-II Qualification Life" means the period of time during which a SuSI-eligible facility may create NJ SREC-IIs.
"Normalized storage bid" means the bid into the CSI Program, calculated in dollars per megawatt hour, that corresponds to an incentive for a storage facility capable of discharging the equivalent of four hours of the nominal electricity generation capacity of the associated solar facility, where both the solar generation capacity and the Storage discharge capacity are measured in direct current (DC).
"PJM Environmental Information Services" or "PJM-EIS" means the unregulated affiliate of PJM Interconnection LLC that operates the Generation Attribute Tracking System (GATS).
"Public entity" means a customer that is a State entity, school district, county, county agency, county authority, municipality, municipal agency, municipal authority, New Jersey public college, or New Jersey public university.
"Site plan" means a development plan of one or more lots on which is shown:
(1) the existing and proposed conditions of the lot, including, but not limited to, topography, vegetation, drainage, flood plains, marshes and waterways, and any contaminated sites or landfills;
(2) the location of all existing and proposed buildings, drives, parking spaces, walkways, means of ingress and egress, drainage facilities, utility services, landscaping, structures, signs, lighting, and screening devices; and
(3) any other information that may be reasonably required in order to make an informed determination on the requirements of this subchapter.
"Storage facility" means a device that is capable of absorbing energy from the grid or from a Distributed Energy Resource, storing it for a period of time using mechanical, chemical, or thermal processes, and thereafter discharging the energy back to the grid or directly to an energy-using system to reduce the use of power from the grid.
"SuSI Program registration manager" means the agent of the Board contracted to administer the registration process for SuSI-eligible facilities.
