Maine Revised Statutes > Title 35-A > Part 3 > Chapter 34-C – Distributed Generation
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- Bid rate: means the rate proposed under a qualified bid for the output of a distributed generation resource in response to a competitive procurement solicitation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Clearing price: means the highest bid rate accepted by the commission for a procurement under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Commercial or institutional customer: means a nonresidential customer of an investor?owned transmission and distribution utility in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Credit rate: means the per?kilowatt?hour rate used to calculate the monetary value of a distributed generation resource. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Customer: includes any person, government or governmental division which has applied for, been accepted and is currently receiving service from a public utility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Distributed generation resource: means an electric generating facility with a nameplate capacity of less than 5 megawatts that uses a renewable fuel or technology under section 3210, subsection 2, paragraph B?3 and is located in the service territory of a transmission and distribution utility in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Energy storage system: means a commercially available technology that uses mechanical, chemical or thermal processes for absorbing energy and storing it for a period of time for use at a later time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Kilowatt: means 1,000 watts, measured in alternating current. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Megawatt: means 1,000,000 watts, measured in alternating current. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Nameplate capacity: means the installed or rated capacity of a power generator. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Offer: means a proposal to install and operate a distributed generation resource of a specified capacity in exchange for a contract with a standard buyer designated pursuant to section 3483. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Output: means energy, capacity, renewable energy certificates and all other environmental attributes and market products that are available or may become available from a distributed generation resource. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481
- Person: includes a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, association, trust, estate, any other legal entity or natural person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Project sponsor: means an entity or its successor or assignee that owns or operates:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481Public utility: includes every gas utility, natural gas pipeline utility, transmission and distribution utility, telephone utility, water utility and ferry, as those terms are defined in this section, and each of those utilities is declared to be a public utility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Qualified bid: means a bid to supply the output from a distributed generation resource that the commission determines meets the minimum qualification requirements established by rule. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481 Rate: means a price per kilowatt?hour of delivered energy as measured by a revenue grade meter, as defined by the commission by rule, at a distributed generation resource's point of connection to the electric grid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481 Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. Shared distributed generation resource: means a distributed generation resource that is selected in a procurement under section 3486 the beneficial use of the output of which is owned by or allocated to subscribers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481 Subscriber: means a retail customer of a transmission and distribution utility that owns or has the right to a subscription and that has identified an account to which the subscription is attributed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481 Subscription: means a proportional interest in a shared distributed generation resource. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3481 Transmission and distribution utility: means a person, its lessees, trustees or receivers or trustees appointed by a court, owning, controlling, operating or managing a transmission and distribution plant for compensation within the State, except where the electricity is distributed by the entity that generates the electricity through private property alone solely for the use of:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72