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Active Load Management - the process for arranging to have firm load become interruptible in accordance with criteria established by the PJM OI.
Appropriate Similar Day - hourly forecasted load comparable based on week day, month, season, and weather.
Bad Credit - an EGS has bad credit if it is insolvent (as evidenced by a credit report prepared by a reputable credit bureau or credit reporting agency or public financial data, liabilities exceeding assets or generally failing to pay debts as they become due) or has failed to pay Company invoices when they became due on two or more occasions within the last twelve billing cycles.
Charge - any fee or charge that is billable by the Company to an EGS under this Tariff, including any Coordination Services Charge.
Competition Act - the Electricity Generation Customer Choice and Competition Act, 66 Pa.C.S. §2801, et seq.
Competitive Energy Supply - unbundled energy and/or capacity provided by an Electric Generation Supplier.
Coordination Activities - all activities related to the provision of Coordination Services.
Coordination Obligations - all obligations identified in Rule 4 of the Tariff, relating to the provision of Coordination Services.
Coordination Services - those services that permit the type of interface and coordination between EGSs and the Company in connection with the delivery of Competitive Energy Supply to serve Customers located within the Company's service territory, including: load forecasting, certain scheduling-related functions and reconciliation.
Company - PP&L, Inc.
Coordinated Supplier - an Electric Generation Supplier that has appointed a Scheduling Coordinator as its designated agent for the purpose of submitting energy schedules to the PJM OI.
Creditworthy - a creditworthy EGS pays the Company's charges as and when due and otherwise complies with the Rules and Regulations of this Tariff or the PaPUC. To determine whether an EGS is creditworthy, the Company will evaluate the EGS's record of paying Company charges, and may also take into consideration the EGS's credit history.
Customer - any person, partnership, association, or corporation receiving Competitive Energy Supply from an Electric Generation Supplier in accordance with the Competition Act at a single metered location.
Deliver - to "Deliver" a document or other item under this Tariff shall mean to tender by certified mail, hand delivery, or overnight express package delivery service.
Direct Access - "Direct Access" shall have the meaning set forth in the Competition Act.
EDC Tariff - the Company's Electric Service Tariff, denominated Electric Pa. P.U.C. No. 201.
Electric Distribution Company or "EDC" - a public utility that owns electric distribution facilities. At times, this term is used to refer to the role of the Company as a deliverer of Competitive Energy Supply in a Direct Access environment as contemplated in the Competition Act.
Electric Generation Supplier or "EGS" - a supplier of electric generation that has been certified or licensed by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to sell electricity to retail customers within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in accordance with the Competition Act.
EGS Representative - any officer, director, employee, consultant, contractor, or other agent or representative of an EGS in connection with the EGS's activity solely as an EGS. To the extent an EGS is a division or group of a company, the term EGS Representative does not include any person in that company who is not part of the EGS division.
FERC - the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Hourly or Sub-Hourly Metering Equipment - metering equipment that supplies half-hourly readings of kW and power factor via remote communications, and not metering equipment from which quarter-hourly or hourly demand readings may be obtained through on-site querying of the metering equipment.
Interest Index - an annual interest rate determined by the average of 1-Year Treasury Bills for September, October and November of the previous year.
Kilowatt or kW - unit of measurement of useful power equivalent to 1000 watts.
Load Bus – as used in this tariff, shall have the same meaning ascribed to the term in the PJM Tariff.
Load Serving Entity or "LSE" - an entity that has been granted the authority or has an obligation pursuant to State or local law, regulation or franchise to sell electric energy to end-users located within the PJM Control Area as that term is defined by the PJM Tariff.
Locational Marginal Price or "LMP" - the hourly integrated marginal price to serve load at individual locations throughout PJM, calculated by the PJM OI as specified in the PJM Tariff.
Megawatt or MW - one thousand kilowatts.
Meter Read Date - the date on which the Company schedules a meter to be read for purposes of producing a customer bill in accordance with the regularly scheduled billing cycles of the Company.
Month - a month under this Tariff means 1/12 of a year, or the period of approximately 30 days between two regular consecutive readings of the Company's meter or meters installed on the customer's premises.
Network Integration Transmission Service Reservation - a reservation under the PJM Tariff of Network Integration Transmission Service, which allows a transmission customer to integrate and economically dispatch generation resources located at one or more points in the PJM Control Area to serve its Network load as that term is defined by the PJM Tariff.
PaPUC or Commission - The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
PJM - the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection LLC.
PJM Control Area - that certain Control Area encompassing systems in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia and which is recognized by the North American Electric Reliability Council as the "PJM Control Area."
PJM eScheduler System - software program administered by the PJM OI through which energy load schedules may be submitted.
PJM OI - the PJM Office of Interconnection, the system operator for the PJM Control Area.
PJM Tariff - the PJM Open Access Transmission Tariff on file with the FERC and which sets forth the rates, terms and conditions of transmission service over transmission facilities located in the PJM Control Area.
Scheduling Coordinator - an entity that performs one or more of an EGS's Coordination Obligations, including the submission of energy schedules to the PJM OI, and that either is (1) a member of the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. or (2) is the agent, for scheduling purposes, of one or more Electric Generation Suppliers that are members of the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.
Tariff - this Electric Generation Supplier Coordination Tariff.
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