Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 10 > Chapter 19 > Part 3 - Administrative Provisions

• Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 10-19-102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Division: means the Division of Consumer Protection. See Utah Code 13-26-2
• 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.
• Municipal: means of or relating to a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
• Municipal electric utility: means any municipality that owns, operates, controls, or manages a facility that provides electric power for a retail customer, whether domestic, commercial, industrial, or otherwise. See Utah Code 10-19-102
• Municipality: means :

  (a)	a city of the first class, city of the second class, city of the third class, city of the fourth class, city of the fifth class;

  (b)	a town, as classified in Section 10-2-301; or

  (c)

  a metro township as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-403 unless the term is used in the context of authorizing, governing, or otherwise regulating the provision of municipal services. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Qualifying electricity: means electricity generated on or after January 1, 1995 from a renewable energy source if: (a)  (i)  the renewable energy source is located within the geographic boundary of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council; or (ii)  the qualifying electricity is delivered to the transmission system of a municipal electric utility or a delivery point designated by the municipal electric utility for the purpose of subsequent delivery to the municipal electric utility; and (b)  the renewable energy attributes of the electricity are not traded, sold, transferred, or otherwise used to satisfy another state's renewable energy program. See Utah Code 10-19-102 Renewable energy source: means : (a)  an electric generation facility or generation capability or upgrade that becomes operational on or after January 1, 1995 that derives its energy from one or more of the following: (i)  wind energy; (ii)  solar photovoltaic and solar thermal energy; (iii)  wave, tidal, and ocean thermal energy; (iv)  except for combustion of wood that has been treated with chemical preservatives such as creosote, pentachlorophenol or chromated copper arsenate, biomass and biomass byproducts, including: (A)  organic waste; (B)  forest or rangeland woody debris from harvesting or thinning conducted to improve forest or rangeland ecological health and to reduce wildfire risk; (C)  agricultural residues; (D)  dedicated energy crops; and (E)  landfill gas or biogas produced from organic matter, wastewater, anaerobic digesters, or municipal solid waste; (v)  geothermal energy located outside the state; (vi)  waste gas and waste heat capture or recovery whether or not it is renewable, including methane gas from: (A)  an abandoned coal mine; or (B)  a coal degassing operation associated with a state-approved mine permit; (vii)  efficiency upgrades to a hydroelectric facility, without regard to the date upon which the facility became operational, if the upgrades become operational on or after January 1, 1995; (viii)  a compressed air energy storage process, if: (A)  the process used to compress the air is a renewable energy source and the associated renewable energy certificates are retired for the purpose of the compressed air energy storage process; or (B)  equivalent renewable energy certificates are obtained and retired for the purpose of the compressed air energy storage process; or (ix)  municipal solid waste; (b)  any of the following: (i)  up to 50 average megawatts of electricity per year per municipal electric utility from a certified low-impact hydroelectric facility, without regard to the date upon which the facility becomes operational, if the facility is certified as a low-impact hydroelectric facility on or after January 1, 1995, by a national certification organization; (ii)  geothermal energy if located within the state, without regard to the date upon which the facility becomes operational; and (iii)  hydroelectric energy if located within the state, without regard to the date upon which the facility becomes operational; (c)  hydrogen gas derived from any source of energy described in Subsection (11)(a) or (b); (d)  if an electric generation facility employs multiple energy sources, that portion of the electricity generated that is attributable to energy sources described in Subsections (11)(a) through (c); and (e)  any of the following located in the state and owned by a user of energy: (i)  a demand side management measure, as defined by Subsection 54-7-12. See Utah Code 10-19-102