Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
Terms defined in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act
of 1978 (PURPA) shall have the same meaning for purposes of this rule as they
have under PURPA, unless further defined in
18
CFR 292.101. The following definitions apply
for purposes of this rule:
A.
Definitions beginning with "A":
(1)
avoided costs means the
incremental costs to an electric utility of electric energy or capacity or both
which, but for the purchase from the qualifying facility or qualifying
facilities, such utility would generate itself or purchase from another source.
Avoided costs shall exclude all costs that the utility would not have been
incurred "but for" the sale by the qualifying facility. Costs that would not
have been incurred "but for" the sale by the qualifying facility shall include,
but are not limited to, settlement adjustment charges and costs associated with
additional reserves, systems operation impacts, and curtailments;
(2)
as available power means
power that a qualifying facility may sell, but has no legal obligation to sell,
to the utility.
B.
Definitions beginning with "B": back-up power means electric
energy or capacity supplied by an electric utility to replace energy ordinarily
generated by a facility's own generation equipment during an unscheduled outage
of the qualifying facility;
C.
Definitions beginning with "C": commission means New Mexico public
regulation commission.
D.
Definitions beginning with "D": design capacity means the total AC
nameplate power rating of the power conversion unit(s) at the point of common
coupling.
E.
Definitions
beginning with "E": [RESERVED]
F.
Definitions beginning with "F":
[RESERVED]
G.
Definitions beginning with "G": [RESERVED]
H.
Definitions beginning with "H":
[RESERVED]
I.
Definitions beginning with "I":
(1)
interconnection costs means
the reasonable costs of connection, switching, metering, transmission,
distribution, safety provisions and administrative costs incurred by the
electric utility directly related to the installation and maintenance of the
physical facilities necessary to permit interconnected operations with a
qualifying facility, to the extent such costs are in excess of the
corresponding costs which the electric utility would have incurred if it had
not engaged in interconnected operations, but instead generated an equivalent
amount of electric energy itself or purchased an equivalent amount of electric
energy or capacity from other sources. Interconnection costs do not include any
costs included in the calculation of avoided costs;
(2)
interruptible power means
electric energy or capacity supplied by an electric utility subject to
interruption by the electric utility under specified conditions.
J.
Definitions beginning with
"J": [RESERVED]
K.
Definitions beginning with "K": [RESERVED]
L. Definitions beginning with "L":
(1)
locational marginal price
means the price for energy at a particular location as determined in the
western energy imbalance market or in the "SPP energy markets" which means the
real-time energy markets operated by southwest power pool, inc;
(2)
legally enforceable
obligation means a public utility's obligation to purchase as-available
energy from a qualified facility and is created when the criteria set forth in
17.9.570.9
NMAC are met and refers to the qualifying facility's obligation to sell power
to a utility for the term of the obligation, and to the utility's corresponding
obligation to purchase power from the qualifying facility for the term of the
obligation.
M.
Definitions beginning with "M": maintenance power means electric
energy or capacity supplied by an electric utility during scheduled outages of
the qualifying facility.
N.
Definitions beginning with "N":
(1)
net metering means the
difference between the energy produced by the qualifying facility's generation
and the energy that would have otherwise been supplied by the utility to the
qualifying facility absent the qualifying facility's generation;
(2)
new capacity addition:
(a) new capacity addition means the capacity
added to a utility's resource mix after the effective date of 17.9.570 NMAC
through normal utility resource procurement activities which shall include but
not necessarily be limited to:
(i)
construction of or participation in new generating facilities;
(ii) augmenting the capacity of or extending
the life of existing generating facilities through capital improvements;
or
(iii) entering into new
contracts or exercising options in existing contracts which will result in
additional capacity;
(b)
new capacity addition does not include the following:
(i) renegotiation of existing contracts for
anything other than increasing capacity in the resource mix;
(ii) renegotiation of existing full power
requirements contract between a distribution cooperative and its full power
requirements supplier; and
(iii)
seasonal uprating in capacity achieved without any capital improvements to
existing generating facilities.
O.
Definitions beginning with "O":
[RESERVED]
P.
Definitions beginning with "P":
(1)
point of common coupling
(PCC) means the point where the interconnection facilities connect with
the utility's system;
(2)
power means electric energy or capacity or both;
(3)
power conversion unit (PCU)
means an inverter or AC generator, not including the energy source;
(4)
purchase means the purchase
of electric energy or capacity or both from a qualifying facility by an
electric utility.
Q.
Definitions beginning with "Q":
(1)
qualifying facility means a
cogeneration facility or a small power production facility that is a qualifying
facility under Subpart B of 18 C.F.R. Part 292 ;
(a) A qualifying facility may include
transmission lines and other equipment used for interconnection purposes
(including transformers and switchyard equipment), if:
(i) Such lines and equipment are used to
supply power output to directly and indirectly interconnected electric
utilities, and to end users, including thermal hosts, in accordance with state
law; or
(ii) Such lines and
equipment are used to transmit supplementary, standby, maintenance and backup
power to the qualifying facility, including its thermal host meeting the
criteria set forth in Union Carbide Corporation, 48 FERC 61,130, reh'g denied,
49 FERC 61,209 (1989), aff'd sub nom., Gulf States Utilities Company v. FERC,
922 F.2d 873 (D.C. Cir. 1991); or
(iii) If such lines and equipment are used to
transmit power from other qualifying facilities or to transmit standby,
maintenance, supplementary and backup power to other qualifying
facilities.
(b) The
construction and ownership of such lines and equipment shall be subject to any
applicable federal, state, and local siting and environmental
requirements.
R.
Definitions beginning with "R":
rate means any price, rate, charge, or classification made, demanded,
observed or received with respect to the sale or purchase of electric energy or
capacity, or any rule, regulation, or practice respecting any such rate,
charge, or classification, and any contract pertaining to the sale or purchase
of electric energy or capacity.
S.
Definitions beginning with "S":
(1) sale means the sale of
electric energy or capacity or both by an electric utility to a qualifying
facility;
(2)
settlement
adjustment charge means the sum of adjustments to the settlement
interval by an energy market, such as the southwest power pool, to account for
market charges or credits applicable to the qualifying facility
resource.
(3)
supplementary
power means electric energy or capacity supplied by an electric utility,
regularly used by a qualifying facility in addition to that which the facility
generates itself;
(4)
system
emergency means a condition on a utility's system which is likely to
result in imminent significant disruption of service to customers or is
imminently likely to endanger life or property.
T.
Definitions beginning with "T":
tariff means the document filed by a utility with the commission
pursuant to 17.9.570 NMAC containing that utility's rules, rates, services and
forms.
U.
Definitions
beginning with "U": utility means a utility or public utility as defined
in Section
62-3-3
NMSA 1978 serving electric customers subject to the jurisdiction of the
commission.
V.
Definitions
beginning with "V": [RESERVED]
W.
Definitions beginning with "W":
western energy imbalance market (or western EIM) means the real-time
energy imbalance market operated by the California independent system operator
corporation.
X.
Definitions
beginning with "X": [RESERVED]
Y.
Definitions beginning with "Y":
[RESERVED]
Z.
Definitions beginning with "Z": [RESERVED]
