2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §30-801  Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Ancillary services" means those services designated as ancillary services in federal energy regulatory commission order 888 adopted in 1996 including the services necessary to support the transmission of electricity from resources to loads while maintaining reliable operation of the transmission system in accordance with good utility practice.

2. "Appliance application" means central space heating, clothes drying, water heating and indoor cooking.

3. "Bundled service" means electric service provided as a package to the consumer including all generation, transmission, distribution, ancillary and other services necessary to deliver and measure useful electricity used by consumers.

4. "Buy-through" means a purchase of electricity by a public power entity at wholesale for a particular retail consumer or aggregate of consumers or at the direction of a particular retail consumer or aggregate of consumers.

5. "Commission" means the Arizona corporation commission.

6. "Electric distribution facilities" means all property used in connection with the distribution of electricity from an electric generating plant to retail electric customers except electric transmission facilities.

7. "Electric distribution service" means the distribution of electricity to retail electric customers through the use of electric distribution facilities.

8. "Electric distribution utility" means a public service corporation or public power entity that operates, controls or maintains electric distribution facilities.

9. "Electric generation plant" means all property used in connection with the generation for sale of electricity to retail electric customers but excluding any services provided by electric transmission facilities or electric distribution facilities.

10. "Electric generation service" means the provision of electricity for sale to retail electric customers but does not include electric distribution or transmission service or generation that is necessary for the reliable operation of the electric distribution or transmission system.

11. "Electric transmission facilities" means all property so classified by the federal energy regulatory commission or, to the extent permitted by law, so classified by the Arizona corporation commission.

12. "Electric transmission service" means the transmission of electricity to retail electric customers or to electric distribution facilities that is so classified by the federal energy regulatory commission or, to the extent permitted by law, so classified by the Arizona corporation commission.

13. "Electricity" means electric energy, electric capacity or electric capacity and energy.

14. "Electricity supplier" means a person, whether acting in a principal, agent or other capacity, that offers to sell electricity to a retail electric customer in this state.

15. "Other services" means metering, meter reading, billing and collecting services.

16. "Public power entity":

(a) Means any municipal corporation, city, town or other political subdivision that is organized under state law, that generates, transmits, distributes or otherwise provides electricity and that is not a public service corporation.

(b) Does not include:

(i) A city or town with a population of less than seventy-five thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census that does not elect by official action to sell electric generation service in the service territory of another electricity supplier.

(ii) A power district, electrical district, irrigation and water conservation district or multi-county water conservation district established pursuant to title 48, chapter 11, 12, 19 or 22.

(iii) The Arizona power authority.

17. "Residential structure" means a detached owner-occupied or rental one or two family dwelling unit, an attached duplex or fourplex unit, a manufactured home, a residential factory-built building as defined in section 41-2142, paragraph 14 or a mobile home designed to be used with a permanent structure, excluding real property used to accommodate more than four attached dwelling units.

18. "Retail electric customer" means a person that purchases electricity for that person's own use, including use in that person's trade or business, and not for resale, redistribution or retransmission.

19. "Service territory" means the geographic area in which a public power entity or public service corporation owns, operates, controls or maintains either electric distribution facilities or natural gas distribution facilities and that additional area in which the public power entity or public service corporation has agreed to extend electric distribution facilities or natural gas distribution facilities, whether established by a certificate of convenience and necessity, by official action by a public power entity or by contract or agreement.