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

“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 and operates an electric generating facility that: (a) has a capacity or not more than 100 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 Rate” means the generation, transmission and distribution charges applicable to the net energy billing customer during the billing period.

“Net energy” 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).