New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES
Chapter 9 - ELECTRIC SERVICES
Part 569 - INTERCONNECTION OF GENERATING FACILITIES WITH A RATED CAPACITY GREATER THAN 10 MW CONNECTING TO A UTILITY SYSTEM
Section 17.9.569.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
Terms used in this rule 17.9.569 NMAC shall have the following meanings.
A. Business day means Monday through Friday, excluding holidays observed by the utility.
B. Generating facility means the interconnection customer's device for the production of electricity identified in the interconnection application, including all generators, electrical wires, equipment, and other facilities owned or provided by the interconnection customer for the purpose of producing electric power.
C. Interconnection application means the request by an interconnection customer to interconnect a new generating facility, or to increase the capacity or make a material modification to the operating characteristics of an existing generating facility that is interconnected with the utility's system.
D. Interconnection customer means any person that proposes to interconnect its generating facility with the utility's system.
E. Party means the utility and the interconnection customer separately or in combination.
F. Person, for purposes of this rule, means an individual, firm, partnership, company, rural electric cooperative organized under Laws 1937, Chapter 100 or the Rural Electric Cooperative Act, corporation or lessee, trustee or receiver appointed by any court.
G. Point of common coupling (PCC) means the point where the interconnection facilities connect with the utility's system.
H. Power conversion unit (PCU) means an inverter or AC generator, not including the energy source.
I. Qualifying facility means a cogeneration facility or a small power production facility which meets the criteria for qualification contained in 18 C.F.R. Section 292.203.
J. Rated capacity means the total AC nameplate rating of the power conversion unit(s) at the point of common coupling.
K. System means the facilities owned, controlled, or operated by the utility that are used to provide electric service under a utility's tariff.
L. Utility means a utility or public utility as defined in NMSA 62-3-3(G) serving electric customers subject to the jurisdiction of the commission.
