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CITY OF ANAHEIM ELECTRIC RATES, RULES Utilities Financial Services AND REGULATIONS 201 S. Anaheim Blvd. Page No. 3.1.1 Anaheim, CA 92805 RULE NO. 1 DEFINITIONS ISSUED BY: Effective: 03-01-20 by Resolution No.: 2020-019 Dated: 02-11-20 Dukku Lee Superseding Resolution No.: 2016-197 Dated: 10-18-16 General Manager Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in the Rates, Rules and Regulations shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning they have in common usage and to give these Rates, Rules and Regulations their most reasonable application. Added Facilities: The facilities provided by the Utility at the request of an Applicant, which are over and above the Utility’s standard facilities, including but not limited to Preferred/Emergency Service. Advanced Electric Meter: A Meter that wirelessly transmits Customer electric consumption data for operation and billing purposes to the Utility on a periodic or event-driven basis. APU: Anaheim Public Utilities. Applicant: The Person, association, corporation or governmental agency applying for electric service. Application: A request to the Utility for electric service as distinguished from an inquiry as to the availability of or charges for such electric service. Billing Demand: The load or demand used for computing charges under Rate Schedules based on the size of the Customer's load or demand. It may be the Connected Load, the measured Maximum Demand, or a modification of either as provided for by applicable Rate Schedules. Billing Period: The time interval between gathering the data used for billing purposes. City: The City of Anaheim, a municipal corporation. City Council: The City Council of the City of Anaheim, California. Class of Service: The categories of electric service established by the various electric Rate Schedules. Connected Load: The sum of the rated capacities of all of the Customer's equipment that can be connected to the Utility's lines at one time as more completely described in the Rate Schedules. (Continued) ---PAGE BREAK--- CITY OF ANAHEIM ELECTRIC RATES, RULES Utilities Financial Services AND REGULATIONS 201 S. Anaheim Blvd. Page No. 3.1.2 Anaheim, CA 92805 RULE NO. 1 DEFINITIONS ISSUED BY: Effective: 03-01-20 by Resolution No.: 2020-019 Dated: 02-11-20 Dukku Lee Superseding Resolution No.: 2017-122 Dated: 07-25-17 General Manager Customer: The Person in whose name Utility electric service is rendered as evidenced by the contract or agreement for that service or, in the absence of a signed instrument, by the receipt of bills or Summary Bills regularly issued in his or her name regardless of the identity of the actual Person using the service. A Customer may also be a party with whom the City of Anaheim is doing business, with or without a billing relationship, or who is receiving benefit of electric service under another party’s name. Data Acquisition Agent (DAA): The entity that collects Meter data associated with Customer Choice Customer usage on the Utility’s behalf and provides such data to the Utility and each ESP after being validated in accordance with the requirements of the Rates, Rules and Regulations and in compliance with Independent System Operator requirements. Date of Presentation: The date upon which a bill or notice is Mailed or delivered by the Utility to the Customer. Debt Service: Cash required over a given period of time for the repayment of interest and principal on borrowed funds. Distributed Energy Resource (DER): Customer power generation and storage resources typically located on Customer Premises operated for the purpose of supplying all or a portion of the Customer electric load. DERs consist of a range of small-scale modular devices designed to provide electricity and/or thermal energy. DERs include, but are not limited to, fossil and renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaic arrays, wind turbines, micro turbines, reciprocating engines, fuel cells, combustion turbines, steam turbines, energy storage devices such as batteries and and combined heat and power systems. Distributed Generation Resource: A source of electricity utilizing small-scale renewable power generation technologies including, but not limited to, solar panels on the roofs of buildings and small wind turbines, which provide an alternative to or an enhancement of a traditional electric power system and reduce the amount of energy lost in transmitting electricity since power is generated near where it is used. Diversion: Any activity described in California Penal Code section 498(b), as may be amended from time to time. Domestic Service: Service for residential use at a dwelling Premises. Any service for other than residential use at a dwelling Premises may be served through the Domestic Service Meter only where such nondomestic Connected Load does not exceed 300 watts for lighting or 2 hp for power. Electric Utility: The electric division of the Utility. Eligible Customer-Generator: Any Customer who uses a Renewable Generating Facility, or combination of those facilities, with a total capacity of not more than one megawatt, that is located on that Customer’s Premises, is interconnected and operates in parallel with the Utility’s transmission and distribution facilities, and offsets no more than part or all of the Customer’s own electrical requirements on the Premises. If used in combination with energy storage equipment, the energy storage equipment inverter must not be larger than the Renewable Generating Facility or discharge more than four hours. Energy Service Provider (ESP): The party that contracts with the end-use customer to provide commodity electric service. Environmental Mitigation: Measures taken to decrease the negative impacts on the natural environment resulting from activities associated with the provision of electric services, including procurement, generation, transmission, and distribution of power. General Manager: General Manager of the City of Anaheim, Public Utilities Department or a designee. (Continued) ---PAGE BREAK--- CITY OF ANAHEIM ELECTRIC RATES, RULES Utilities Financial Services AND REGULATIONS 201 S. Anaheim Blvd. Page No. 3.1.3 Anaheim, CA 92805 RULE NO. 1 DEFINITIONS ISSUED BY: Effective: 10-01-17 by Resolution No.: 2017-122 Dated: 07-25-17 Dukku Lee Superseding Resolution No.: 2016-197 Dated: 10-18-16 General Manager General Service: Service to any lighting or power installation except those eligible for service on single-family or multi-family domestic, lighting, time-of-use, power-agricultural, or municipal Rate Schedules. Greenhouse Gas: Any gas that absorbs and/or emits infra-red radiation in the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons, or as may be defined in applicable state or federal law. Independent System Operator (ISO): A California, State chartered, nonprofit public benefit corporation charged with operating the majority of California’s high-voltage wholesale power grid and balancing the demand for electricity with an equal supply of megawatts. Lighting Service: Electric service to any apparatus transforming electric energy into light for all visual purposes except those specified under "Power Service". Line Extension: All facilities required to extend electric service from the Utility's existing permanent facilities to the Point of Delivery. Load Factor: The actual energy consumed divided by the peak electric demand multiplied by the total hours of consumption. Mailed: Any notice or other communication will be considered "mailed" when it is enclosed in a sealed envelope, properly addressed, and deposited in any United States Post Office Box, postage prepaid. Maximum Demand: The average kilowatts during the specified time interval when the Customer's use is greatest in the Billing Period as indicated or recorded by the Utility's Meter. Meter: The instrument used for measuring the amount of electricity delivered to a Customer. Month: A thirty-day period. Multi-family Accommodation: An apartment building, duplex, mobilehome park, court group, or any other group of Residential Units located upon a single Premises, providing the Residential Units therein meet the requirements for a Single-Family Accommodation. Hotels, guest or resort ranches, tourist camps, motels, auto courts, and trailer courts, consisting primarily of guest rooms and/or transient accommodations, are not classed as Multi-family Accommodations. Municipal Service: Electric services supplied to City of Anaheim departments. Nominal Voltage: The nominal voltage of a circuit is the approximate voltage between conductors in a circuit or system of a given class, assigned for the purpose of convenient designation. For any specific nominal voltage, the operating voltage actually existing at various points and at various times on the system is subject to normal distribution variation. Overhead Facilities: Any poles, towers, supports, wires, cables, lines, fiber optics, conduits, conductors, guys, stubs, platforms, crossarms, braces, transformers, capacitors, insulators, cutouts, switches, communication circuits, appliances, apparatus, appurtenances, and other equipment and structures located above ground used to supply electricity or communications services in or through the City. Participating Apartment Owner: An apartment owner who has signed an agreement with the City of Anaheim to participate in a plan whereby Utility service at his various units will automatically be established in his name as they become vacant. Permanent Service: Electric service which, in the opinion of the Utility, is of a permanent and established character. This service may be continuous, intermittent, or seasonal in nature. (Continued) ---PAGE BREAK--- CITY OF ANAHEIM ELECTRIC RATES, RULES Utilities Financial Services AND REGULATIONS 201 S. Anaheim Blvd. Page No. 3.1.4 Anaheim, CA 92805 RULE NO. 1 DEFINITIONS ISSUED BY: Effective: 10-01-17 by Resolution No.: 2017-122 Dated: 07-25-17 Dukku Lee Superseding Resolution No.: 2016-197 Dated: 10-18-16 General Manager Person: Any individual, partnership, corporation, public agency, or other organization operating as a single entity. Point of Delivery: The point as determined by the Utility where conductors of the Utility are connected to the conductors of the Customer, regardless of the location of the Utility's Meters, interconnection point or transformers. Utility conductors may be owned, leased, or under license by the Utility, and the conductors of the Customer may be owned, leased, or under license by the Customer. Power Factor: The ratio of the revenue producing current in a circuit to the total current in that circuit. In terms of power quantities, Power Factor is the ratio of kw (real power) to the total kva (total power). Power Service: Electric service to apparatus or equipment used for purposes other than lighting shall be considered as Power Service. Lamps or lights used for purposes which, in the opinion of the Utility, are not general illumination purposes are classed as Power Service. Preferred/Emergency Service: Added Facilities required to provide redundant service from an alternate Utility source, and the equipment to transfer load from a preferred or normal source to an emergency or backup source. Premises: All of the real property and apparatus employed in a Single Enterprise on an integral parcel of land undivided, excepting in the case of industrial, agricultural, oil field, resort enterprises, and public or Quasi-public Institutions, by a dedicated street, highway, or other public thoroughfare, or a railway. Automobile parking lots constituting a part of and adjacent to a Single Enterprise may be separated by an alley from the remainder of the Premises served. Public Utilities Board: The Public Utilities Board as described in Charter Section 909 and Section 1.04.700 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. Pull Box: An enclosure for joining conductors which also provides by its size, arrangement, and location the necessary facilities for pulling the conductors into place. (Continued) ---PAGE BREAK--- CITY OF ANAHEIM ELECTRIC RATES, RULES Utilities Financial Services AND REGULATIONS 201 S. Anaheim Blvd. Page No. 3.1.5 Anaheim, CA 92805 RULE NO. 1 DEFINITIONS ISSUED BY: Effective: 03-01-20 by Resolution No.: 2020-019 Dated: 02-11-20 Dukku Lee Superseding Resolution No.: 2017-122 Dated: 07-25-17 General Manager Quasi-public Institutions: Public utilities, educational institutions, and hospitals, whether publicly or privately owned, where the property, campus or hospital grounds extend over relatively large areas through which public streets may run. Rate Charges: Charges in the Rates, Rules and Regulations may include the following: Added Facilities Charge: The fee collected by the Utility for the installation and use of Added Facilities equipment. Customer Charge: That portion of the charge for electric service which is a fixed amount without regard to Connected Load, demand, or energy consumption in accordance with the Rate Schedule. Demand Charge: That portion of the charge for electric service which varies with the Billing Demand in accordance with the Rate Schedule. Energy Charge: That portion of the charge for electric service which varies with the quantity of energy consumed in accordance with the Rate Schedule. Minimum Charge: The least amount for which electric service will be rendered in accordance with the Rate Schedule. Power Factor Adjustment: That portion of the charge for electric service which varies with the Power Factor in accordance with the Rate Schedule. Service Charge: That portion of the charge for electric service which is a fixed amount based on Connected Load in accordance with the Rate Schedule. Rates, Rules and Regulations: The rate structure, the Rules, and any regulations as approved by the City Council, governing the use and delivery of electricity. Rate Schedule: May be one or more Tariff Pages setting forth the charges and conditions for a particular class or type of electric service at a given location. A Rate Schedule, as referred to herein, shall include all the wording on the applicable Tariff Page or pages, including but not limited to, the following: Class of Service, Applicability, Rates, Special Conditions, and reference to a Rule or Rules. Renewable Generating Facility: A facility that generates electricity within the Utility’s service area from commercially available renewable solar photovoltaic systems. Required Net Energy Meter: A single Meter capable of registering the flow of electricity in two directions. Residential Unit: A residential dwelling unit consisting of a room or group of rooms which do not qualify as Single- Family Dwellings. Residential Units may be used as permanent primary dwellings, as transient tenant accommodations, and by organizations or groups of Persons. When a Residential Unit is used as a permanent primary residence, use shall be Domestic Service. When such units are used by a transient tenant, an organization, or a group of Persons, use shall be nondomestic or General Service. Revenue: Amount realized from the selling of goods or services before customer discounts or uncollectible write- offs are applied. This does not include amounts collected from sources that are to be deferred in accordance with Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 62. Rule(s): Tariff Pages which set forth the application of all rates, charges and services when such applicability is not set forth in and as a part of the Rate Schedules. School: A public or private K-12 school recognized by the Orange County Department of Education or the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. (Continued) ---PAGE BREAK--- CITY OF ANAHEIM ELECTRIC RATES, RULES Utilities Financial Services AND REGULATIONS 201 S. Anaheim Blvd. Page No. 3.1.6 Anaheim, CA 92805 RULE NO. 1 DEFINITIONS ISSUED BY: Effective: 03-01-20 by Resolution No.: 2020-019 Dated: 02-11-20 Dukku Lee Superseding Resolution No.: 2019-038 Dated: 04-16-19 General Manager Service Wires or Connection: The group of conductors, whether overhead or underground, necessary to connect the service entrance conductors of the Customer to the Utility's supply line, regardless of the location of the Utility's Meters or transformers. An overhead service connection, sometimes referred to as a "service drop", is the group of conductors between the Customer's building or other permanent support and the Utility's adjacent pole. Single-Family Dwelling or Accommodation: A house, apartment, or other dwelling unit which is used as a residence by a single family. Street Lighting Service: Electric service to any lighting apparatus used primarily for the illumination of streets, alleys, highways, or other public rights-of-way. Sub-meter: An instrument used for measuring the electricity used by a single device, unit, space, building, or common area and typically connected after the Meter. Substructure: All conduits, ductbanks, vaults, Pull Boxes, concrete and/or composite equipment pads, and other underground structures with the associated trenching and excavations. Summary Bill: A Customer account billing statement that includes charges for multiple service locations. Swimming Pool: A permanently installed swimming pool, above or below ground, with permanently installed pump, motor, filtering equipment and automatic timer to control the operation of the pumping equipment. The pump motor must be rated at a minimum of 3/4 horsepower. Tariff Page: An individual page of the Tariff Schedules. Tariff Schedules: The entire body of effective rates, rentals, charges, and Rules collectively of the Utility, as set forth herein, and including title page, preliminary statement, Rate Schedules, and Rules. Temporary Service: Electric service for enterprises or activities which are temporary in character or where it is known in advance that service will be of limited duration. Electric service, which in the opinion of the Utility, is for operations of a speculative character or the permanency of which has not been established, also is considered Temporary Service. Tract or Subdivision: An area which may be identified by filed subdivision plans or an area in which a group of dwellings may be constructed about the same time, either by a large scale builder or by several builders working on a coordinated basis. Underground Distribution System: An electric distribution system with all cables installed underground except those conductors in surface-mounted equipment enclosures. Underground Facilities: Concrete pads, vaults, pull boxes, conduits, cables, fiber-optics, transformers, switches, pedestal-mounted terminal boxes, meter cabinets, or concealed ducts located on or below ground in the City used to supply electricity or communications services in or through the City. Underground Transmission System: A transmission system up to 69kV with all cables installed underground. Underground Utility District or District: That area in the City in which Overhead Facilities are required to be removed or otherwise installed underground, as such area is described in a resolution adopted pursuant to the provisions of Section 17.24 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. Utility: The City of Anaheim - Public Utilities Department. Utility's Operating Convenience: The term refers to the utilization, under certain circumstances, of facilities or practices not ordinarily employed which contribute to the overall efficiency of the Utility's operations; it does not refer to Customer convenience or to the use of facilities or adoption of practices required to comply with applicable laws, ordinances, rules or regulations, or similar requirements of public authorities.