2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 57 - Trade Practices and Regulations
Article 31 - Distributed Generation Disclosure
Section 57-31-2 - Definitions.

As used in the Distributed Generation Disclosure Act:

A. "annual percentage rate" means the cost of credit, expressed as a yearly rate, that relates the amount and timing of value received by the consumer to the amount and timing of payments made;

B. "business day" means any day Monday through Friday, unless such day falls on a legal holiday, in which case "business day" means the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday;

C. "buyer" means a person that purchases a distributed energy generation system from a seller or marketer and includes a power purchaser;

D. "distributed energy generation system" means a device or system that is used to generate or store electricity, that has an electric delivery capacity, individually or in connection with other similar devices or systems, greater than one kilowatt or one kilowatt-hour, and that is used primarily for on-site consumption, but does not include an electric generator that is intended for occasional use;

E. "energized" means that a distributed energy generation system is installed and operational for its intended purposes of generating or storing electricity;

F. "interconnected" means that a distributed energy generation system is connected to the power grid and is able to transfer electricity to the power grid;

G. "lessee" means a person that leases a distributed energy generation system from the owner of the distributed energy generation system;

H. "person" means an individual person, corporation, trust, partnership, association, cooperative association, club, company, firm, joint venture or syndicate;

I. "power purchaser" means a buyer that agrees to purchase the power generated by a distributed energy generation system from the owner of the distributed energy generation system;

J. "renewable energy certificate" means a certificate or other record, in a format approved by the public regulation commission, that represents all the environmental attributes from one kilowatt-hour of electricity generation from a renewable energy resource; and

K. "seller or marketer" means a person acting through its officers, employees, brokers or agents that markets, sells or solicits the sale or lease of distributed energy generation systems or the sale of power to a power purchaser or negotiates or enters into agreements for the sale or lease of distributed energy generation systems or the sale of power to a power purchaser.

History: Laws 2017, ch. 102, § 2.

Effective dates. — Laws 2017, ch. 102contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 16, 2017, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.