The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction of this chapter.
(a) “Aggregator” means any marketer, broker, public agency, city, county, or special district, that combines the loads of multiple end-use customers in facilitating the sale and purchase of electric energy, transmission, and other services on behalf of these customers.
(b) “Broker” means an entity that arranges the sale and purchase of electric energy, transmission, and other services between buyers and sellers, but does not take title to any of the power sold.
(c) “Direct transaction” means a contract between any one or more electric generators, marketers, or brokers of electric power and one or more retail customers providing for the purchase and sale of electric power or any ancillary services.
(d) “Fire wall” means the line of demarcation separating residential and small commercial customers from all other customers as described in subdivision (e) of Section 367.
(e) “Marketer” means any entity that buys electric energy, transmission, and other services from traditional utilities and other suppliers, and then resells those services at wholesale or to an end-use customer.
(f) “Microcogeneration facility” means a cogeneration facility of less than one megawatt.
(g) “Restructuring trusts” means the two tax-exempt public benefit trusts established by Decision 96-08-038 of the Public Utilities Commission to provide for design and development of the hardware and software systems for the Power Exchange and the Independent System Operator, respectively, and that may undertake other activities, as needed, as ordered by the commission.
(h) “Small commercial customer” means a customer that has a maximum peak demand of less than 20 kilowatts.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 188. Effective January 1, 2003.)