As used in articles 1 to 7 of this title 40, unless the
context otherwise requires:
(1) Alternative fuel vehicle means any automobile, truck, motor bus, boat,
airplane, train, tractor, or other type of motorized off-highway equipment or other
self-propelled device or vessel that is capable of moving itself or being moved from
place to place utilizing, in whole or in part, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas,
electricity, or a combination of natural gas and electricity as transportation fuel,
whether or not the vehicle is used in agricultural, commercial, domestic, or
industrial operations.
(1.1) Behind-the-meter thermal renewable source means a technology
through which a utility customer accesses a renewable heating or cooling source to
serve the customer's electric or heating needs for one or more end uses, including
water heating, space heating or cooling, or industrial processes.
(1.2) (a) Beneficial electrification means converting the energy source of a
customer's end use from a nonelectric fuel source to a high-efficiency electric
source, or avoiding the use of nonelectric fuel sources in new construction or
industrial applications, if the result of the conversion or avoidance is to:
(I) Reduce net greenhouse gas emissions over the lifetime of the conversion
or avoidance; and
(II) Reduce societal costs or provide for more efficient utilization of grid
resources.
(b) Beneficial electrification does not include:
(I) Retail distributed generation, as defined in section 40-2-124 (1)(a)(VIII); or
(II) An energy storage system, as defined in section 40-2-130 (2)(a).
(1.3) Certificate of completion means an attestation that an
interconnection customer submits to a public utility to confirm that a retail
distributed generation resource has been properly inspected or otherwise certified
to meet the safe operation requirements of a local government's building code
enforcement authority.
(1.4) Charge includes any consideration, however denominated, paid or
provided by a retail cooperative electric association to a wholesale electric
cooperative in connection with an agreement by which the retail cooperative
electric association terminates a wholesale electric service contract with the
wholesale electric cooperative.
(1.5) Commission means the public utilities commission of the state of
Colorado.
(2) Commissioner means one of the members of the commission.
(3) (a) Common carrier means:
(I) Every person directly or indirectly affording a means of transportation, or
any service or facility in connection therewith, within this state by motor vehicle or
other vehicle whatever by indiscriminately accepting and carrying passengers for
compensation; and
(II) Every person affording a means of transportation within this state by
railroad by indiscriminately accepting and carrying for compensation passengers or
property.
(b) Common carrier does not include a motor carrier that provides
transportation not subject to regulation pursuant to section 40-10.1-105, a motor
carrier that is subject to part 3, 4, 5, or 7 of article 10.1 of this title 40, a
transportation network company, as defined in section 40-10.1-602 (3), or a
transportation network company driver, as defined in section 40-10.1-602 (4).
(4) Compensation means any money, property, service, or thing of value
charged or received, or to be charged or received, whether directly or indirectly.
(5) (a) Cost-effective, with reference to a natural gas or electric demand-side management program, a beneficial electrification program, or any measure
related to either a demand-side management or beneficial electrification program,
means having a benefit-cost ratio greater than one.
(b) In calculating the benefit-cost ratio, the benefits must include, in a base
case, the following, as applicable:
(I) The utility's avoided generation, transmission, distribution, capacity, and
energy costs;
(II) The valuation of avoided greenhouse gas emissions, calculated as the
social cost of carbon dioxide in accordance with sections 40-3.2-106 and 40-3.2-107 and the social cost of methane in accordance with section 40-3.2-107, as
separate items in the cost-benefit calculation; and
(III) Other costs or benefits as determined by the commission.
(c) In calculating the benefit-cost ratio, the costs must include utility and
participant expenditures for the following, as applicable:
(I) Program design, administration, evaluation, advertising, and promotion;
(II) Customer education;
(III) Incentives and discounts;
(IV) Capital costs; and
(V) Operation and maintenance expenses.
(d) In addition to the base case analysis of cost-effectiveness described in
subsection (5)(b) of this section, a utility may provide a case that does not include
the social costs of methane and carbon dioxide.
(6) Demand-side management programs or DSM programs means any of
the following programs or combination of programs:
(a) Energy efficiency, including weatherization and insulation;
(b) Conservation;
(c) Load management;
(d) Beneficial electrification, as defined in subsection (1.2) of this section; and
(e) Demand response programs.
(6.5) Disproportionately impacted community has the meaning set forth in
section 24-4-109 (2)(b)(II).
(7) Education program means a program, including, but not limited to, an
energy audit, that contributes indirectly to a cost-effective demand-side
management program. Education programs shall not be subject to independent
cost-effectiveness requirements.
(8) Full service customer means a residential or commercial customer that
purchases natural gas or electric supply from an investor-owned utility.
(8.2) Interconnection agreement means an agreement between a public
utility and an interconnection customer to interconnect a retail distributed
generation resource to the utility system.
(8.3) (a) Interconnection customer means an entity that proposes to
interconnect a retail distributed generation resource on the distribution system of a
public utility.
(b) Interconnection customer includes an affiliate or a subsidiary of a
public utility that proposes to interconnect a retail distributed generation resource
to the public utility's system.
(8.5) Meter collar adapter means a device that is installed between the
electric meter and the meter socket box on a utility customer's premises and that
has electrical connection points both electrically upstream and electrically
downstream of the meter.
(9) Net present value of revenue requirements means the current worth of
the expected stream of future revenue requirements associated with a particular
resource portfolio, expressed in dollars in the year the plan is filed. To determine
the current worth of the expected stream of future revenue requirements, a
discount rate at the utility's weighted average cost of capital shall be applied to the
expected stream of future revenue requirements.
(10) Person means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company,
association, joint stock association, and other legal entity.
(11) Renewable energy means useful electrical, thermal, or mechanical
energy converted directly or indirectly from resources of continuous energy flow or
that are perpetually replenished and whose utilization is sustainable indefinitely.
The term includes, without limitation, sunlight, the wind, geothermal energy,
hydrodynamic forces, and organic matter available on a renewable basis such as
forest residues, agricultural crops and wastes, wood and wood wastes, animal
wastes, livestock operation residue, aquatic plants, and municipal wastes.
(12) Technical support document means the 2016 technical support
document of the federal interagency working group on social cost of greenhouse
gases, entitled Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory
Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866.