Aggregation
means the grouping of retail electric customers to provide, broker, or contract for energy services for such customers. See definition below for ‘community power aggregation’.
Aggregation Plan
means a proposed or approved electric aggregation plan developed pursuant to RSA 53-E:6. The term includes “community power aggregation plan.”
Aggregator
means, unless the context indicates otherwise, a municipality or county that engages in aggregation of electric customers within its boundaries.
Anonymized
means customer data presented in a way that removes information that can be used to identify the individual customer that it pertains to, such that it does not constitute “individual customer data” as defined by RSA 363:37, I.
Commission
means the New Hampshire public utilities commission.
Committee
means “committee” as defined in RSA 53-E:2, IV, namely, an “electric aggregation committee established under RSA 53-E:6” and the term includes any person or entity acting as an agent for such a committee.
Community power aggregation (CPA)
means a municipal or county aggregation program established pursuant to RSA 53-E to group retail electric customers to provide, broker, or contract for energy services for such customers as defined by RSA 53-E:2, V-a and RSA 53-E:3, II(a), including a group of such entities operating jointly pursuant to RSA 53-E:3, II(b) and RSA 53-A and any person or entity acting as an agent for a municipal or county aggregation program. The term includes “aggregation.”
Competitive electric power supplier (CEPS)
pursuant to Puc 2002.08, means any person or entity that sells or offers to sell all-requirements electricity supply service to retail customers, including net metering customers, in this state using the transmission or distribution facilities of a utility. A CEPS takes ownership of the electricity it sells. The term does not include community power aggregations, any utility or any municipal or county corporation operating within its corporate limits, or submetering at campgrounds as described in RSA 362:3-a.
Confidential customer information
means information that is collected as part of providing electric services to a customer that can identify, singly or in combination, that specific customer, and includes the customer name, address, and account number and the quantity, characteristics, or time of consumption by the customer, and also includes specific customer payment, financial, banking, and credit information.
County
means any county within the state.
Default Service
means “default service” as defined in RSA 374-F:2, namely, “electricity supply that is available to retail customers who are otherwise without an electricity supplier and are ineligible for transition service and is provided by electric distribution utilities under RSA 374-F:3, V or as an alternative, by municipal or county aggregators under RSA 53-E.”
Department
means the NH department of energy.
Electronic data interchange (EDI)
means a standard set of data transactions used by electric distribution companies and CEPS or CPAs serving as LSEs to send and receive data.
Energy services
means the provision of electric power supply solely or in combination with any or all of the services specified in RSA 53-E:3.
Enrollment
means the commencement of a customer’s electricity supply service from a CPA serving as an LSE, or a CEPS serving a CPA under contract, effective on the meter read date described in Puc 2004.10(a) following successful EDI notification by a CEPS or a CPA serving as an LSE to the utility.
ISO-NE
means any city, town, unincorporated place, or village district within the state.
Load Serving Entity (LSE)
means an entity that is registered with ISO-NE as a market participant and secures and sells electric energy and related services to serve the demand of end-use customers at the distribution level.
Municipality
means an entity that is registered with ISO-NE as a market participant and secures and sells electric energy and related services to serve the demand of end-use customers at the distribution level.
Utility
means any electric generation, transmission, or distribution company meeting the definition of a public utility under RSA 362:2 and RSA 362:4-a and includes rural electric cooperatives.
Sources:
CHAPTER Puc 2200 MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY AGGREGATION RULES, Part Puc 2202 Definitions – https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/III/53-E/53-E-mrg.htm
Chapter 53-E AGGREGATION OF ELECTRIC CUSTOMERS BY MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES Section 53-E:2 Definitions. – https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/III/53-E/53-E-mrg.htm