When used in this chapter; the following terms and phrases shall have the following meaning:

“Capacity” means the maximum output, expressed in kilowatts, of an electric generator under specific conditions designated by the manufacturer, as indicated on a nameplate physically attached to the generator.

“Commission” means the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia.

“Competitive Electricity Supplier” means a person, including an aggregator, broker, or marketer, who generates electricity; sells electricity; or purchases, brokers, arranges or markets electricity for sale or retail customers: The term excludes the following: (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; (B)(1) Any person who purchases electricity for its own use or for the use of its subsidiaries or affiliates; or (2) Any apartment building or office building manager who aggregates electric service requirements for his or her building or buildings, or who does not: (a) Take title to the electricity; (b) Market electric services to the individually-metered tenants of his or her building; or (c) Engage in the resale of electric service to others; (C) Property owners who supply small amounts of power, at cost, as accommodation to lessors or licensees of the property; and (D) A consolidator.

“Customer-generator” means a residential or commercial customer that owns (or leases or contracts) and operates an electric generating facility that: (a) has a capacity of not more than 1000 kilowatts; (b) uses renewable resources, cogeneration, fuel cells, or microturbines; (c) is located on the customer's premises; (d) is interconnected with the Electric Company's transmission and distribution facilities; and (e) is intended primarily to offset all or part of the customer's own electricity requirements.

“Electric Company” means the company that provides distribution service.

“Eligible customer-generator” means a customer-generator whose net energy metering system for renewable resources, cogeneration, fuel cells, and microturbines meets all applicable safety and performance standards.

“Full Retail Distribution Rate” means the per kilowatt-hour distribution charges applicable to the net energy billing customer during the billing period.

“Full Retail Transmission Rate” means the per kilowatt-hour transmission charges applicable to the net energy billing customer during the billing period.

“Generation value” means the product of the applicable SOS kilowatt-hour rate times the number of kilowatt-hours consumed and/or supplied, during the time period(s) associated with such usage and/or supply.

“Net energy metering” means the difference between the kilowatt-hours consumed by a customer-generator and the kilowatt-hours generated by the customer-generator’s facility over any time period determined as if measured by a single meter capable of registering the flow of electricity in two directions.

“Net energy billing” means a billing and metering practice under which a customer-generator is billed on the basis of net energy over the billing period.

“Standard Offer Service Provider” means a provider of standard offer service chosen pursuant to Chapter 29 of the Commission’s rules.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 52 DCR 1588 (February 18, 2005); as amended by 55 DCR 7302 (July 4, 2008); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 57 DCR 5249, 5253 (June 18, 2010).