As used in this article 3.3, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1)Alternative energy service means a low- or zero-carbon residential,
commercial, or industrial energy service that is able to meet a customer's end use
need and does not combust methane-, propane-, or petroleum-derived gas on site in
doing so.
(2)Colorado energy office means the Colorado energy office created in
section 24-38.5-101.
(3)Distribution system has the meaning set forth in section 40-2-115 (2)(b)
and includes the piping and associated facilities used to deliver geological gas or
recovered methane.
(4)Dual-fuel utility means an investor-owned utility in which one company
or a subsidiary of the same company operates both an electric and a gas utility that
have service territories in the state wh
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As used in this article 3.3, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Alternative energy service means a low- or zero-carbon residential,
commercial, or industrial energy service that is able to meet a customer's end use
need and does not combust methane-, propane-, or petroleum-derived gas on site in
doing so.
(2) Colorado energy office means the Colorado energy office created in
section 24-38.5-101.
(3) Distribution system has the meaning set forth in section 40-2-115 (2)(b)
and includes the piping and associated facilities used to deliver geological gas or
recovered methane.
(4) Dual-fuel utility means an investor-owned utility in which one company
or a subsidiary of the same company operates both an electric and a gas utility that
have service territories in the state where greater than fifty percent of all
customers in those territories receive both gas and electric service from a utility
operated by that company or a subsidiary of the same company.
(5) Gas means natural or geological gas, recovered methane, or any
mixture of natural or geological gas or recovered methane that is transported by a
common carrier or dedicated pipeline, including flammable gas; manufactured gas;
petroleum or other hydrocarbon gases, such as propane; or any mixture of fossil
gases that is injected into a pipeline and transmitted, distributed, or furnished by a
utility.
(6) Gas infrastructure plan means a requirement for gas utilities
established by the commission that is designed to establish a process to determine
the need for, and potential alternatives to, capital investment, consistent with the
objectives of maintaining just and reasonable rates; ensuring system safety,
reliability, and resiliency; and protecting income-qualified utility customers and
disproportionately impacted communities.
(7) Gas planning pilot community means a local government in which
constituents have gas service provided by a dual-fuel utility and an active franchise
agreement with the dual-fuel utility, which local government formally indicates an
interest in working with the dual-fuel utility to mutually explore opportunities for
neighborhood-scale alternatives projects, including through the exchange of utility
gas infrastructure data and community development plans.
(8) Greenhouse gas reduction goals means the state's greenhouse gas
reduction goals described in section 25-7-102 (2)(g).
(9) Income-qualified utility customer has the meaning set forth in section
40-3-106 (1)(d)(II).
(10) Local government means a home rule or statutory county, city, or city
and county.
(11) Neighborhood-scale alternatives project means a project in a gas
planning pilot community:
(a) Where a dual-fuel utility:
(I) Provides both gas and electric service;
(II) Provides gas service and a municipally owned utility operated by the gas
planning pilot community provides electric service; or
(III) Provides gas service and a cooperative electric association that serves a
gas planning pilot community has voluntarily partnered with the dual-fuel utility;
and
(b) That geographically targets decommissioning a portion of the gas
distribution system or avoids expanding the gas distribution system in order to
serve new construction projects and provides alternative energy service to
buildings within the project area that reduces future greenhouse gas emissions
required to serve buildings.
(12) Nonemitting thermal resource means efficient thermal energy for
heating, cooling, or hot water, which energy does not require combustion of gas,
such as an air-source heat pump, as defined in section 39-22-554 (2)(a); a ground-source heat pump, as defined in section 39-22-554 (2)(g); a heat pump water
heater; a thermal energy system; or a thermal energy network.
(13) Pipeline segment means a discrete portion of the distribution system
and all ancillary structures, valves, and other systems needed to distribute gas. A
pipeline segment must be the smallest incremental unit possible, as defined by
pipeline materials, geographical features, and the design of the distribution system.
(14) Thermal energy network has the meaning set forth in section 40-3.2-108 (2)(s).
(15) Thermal energy system has the meaning set forth in section 40-3.2-108 (2)(t).