1399.1 When used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed:

Act - the Public Utilities Reimbursement Fee Act of 1980, D.C. Law 3-88(codified at D.C. Code § 34-912 (2001 Ed.)).

Commission - the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia.

Competitive Electric Supplier - a person, including an aggregator, broker or marketer, who generates electricity; sells electricity; or purchases, brokers, arranges, or markets electricity for sale to customers. The term excludes the following:

1. (A) Building owners, lessees, or managers who manage the internal distribution system serving such building and who supply electricity solely to occupants of the building for use by the occupants;
2. (B) (i) Any person who purchases electricity for its own use or for the use of its subsidiaries or affiliates; or
3. (ii) Any apartment building or office building manager who aggregates electric service requirements for his or her building or buildings, and who does not:
4. (I) Take title to electricity;
5. (II) Market electric services to the individually-metered tenants of his or her building; or
6. (III) Engage in the resale of electric services to others;
7. (C) Property owners who supply small amounts of power, at cost, as an accommodation to lessors or licensees of the property; and
8. (D) A consolidator.

Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) - any provider of telecommunications service that was not an incumbent local exchange carrier on January 31, 1996.

Competitive Natural Gas Supplier - a person including an aggregator, broker, or marketer, who sells natural gas or purchases, brokers, arranges or markets natural gas for sale to customers. The term shall not include a person that supplies natural gas exclusively for its own consumption or the consumption of one or more of its affiliates. The term shall not include the following:

1. (A) Building owners, lessees, or managers who manage the internal distribution system serving the building and who supply natural gas solely to occupants of the building for use by the occupants;
2. (B) (i) Any person who purchases natural gas for its own use or for the use of its subsidiaries or affiliates; or
3. (ii) Any apartment building or office building manager who aggregates retail natural gas sales requirements for his or her building, and who does not:
   1. (I) Take title to natural gas;
   2. (II) Market retail natural gas sales to the individually-metered tenants of his or her building; or
   3. (III) Engage in the resale of natural gas to others;
4. (C) Property owners who supply small amounts of natural gas, at cost as an accommodation to lessors or licensees of the property;

(D) A consolidator; or

(E) The gas company.

District - the District of Columbia.

People's Counsel - the People's Counsel of the Government of the District of Columbia.

Public Utility - any public utility, as defined under D.C. Code § 34-214 (2001 Ed.), other than a common carrier.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 29 DCR 3245 (July 30, 1982); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 53 DCR 4141 (May 19, 2006).