Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 54 > Chapter 17 > Part 8 - Renewable Energy Contracts

• Avoided costs: means the incremental costs to an electrical corporation of electric energy or capacity or both that, due to the purchase of electric energy or capacity or both from small power production or cogeneration facilities, the electrical corporation would not have to generate itself or purchase from another electrical corporation. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract customer: means a person who executes or will execute a renewable energy contract with a qualified utility. See Utah Code 54-17-801
• 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.
• Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Public utility: includes every railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, distribution electrical cooperative, wholesale electrical cooperative, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, sewerage corporation, heat corporation, and independent energy producer not described in Section 54-2-201 where the service is performed for, or the commodity delivered to, the public generally, or in the case of a gas corporation or electrical corporation where the gas or electricity is sold or furnished to any member or consumers within the state for domestic, commercial, or industrial use. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Qualified utility: means an electric corporation that serves more than 200,000 retail customers in the state. See Utah Code 54-17-801
• Renewable energy contract: means a contract under this part for the delivery of electricity from one or more renewable energy facilities to a contract customer requiring the use of a qualified utility's transmission or distribution system to deliver the electricity from a renewable energy facility to the contract customer. See Utah Code 54-17-801
• Renewable energy facility: means a renewable energy source as defined in Section 54-17-601 that:

  (i)	is located in the state; or

  (ii)

  (A)  is located outside the state; and (B)  provides energy from baseload renewable resources. See Utah Code 54-17-801 Renewable energy tariff: means a tariff offered by a qualified utility that allows the qualified utility to procure renewable generation on behalf of and to serve its customers. See Utah Code 54-17-801 Solicitation: means a request for proposals or other invitation for persons to submit a bid or proposal through an open bid process for construction or acquisition of a significant energy resource. See Utah Code 54-17-102 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5