CHAPTER 2. Definitions
Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 276.
§§ 25100–25142 · 42 sections
- § 25100 Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this division.
- § 25101 “Applicant” means any person who submits an application for certification pursuant to the provisions of this division, including, but not limited to, any…
- § 25102 “Application” means any request for certification of any site and related facility filed in accordance with the procedures established pursuant to this…
- § 25103 “Coastal zone” means the “coastal zone” as defined in Section 30103.
- § 25103.3 “Suisun Marsh” means the Suisun Marsh, as defined in Section 29101.
- § 25103.7 “Jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission” means the area defined in Section 66610 of the Government Code.
- § 25104 “Commission” means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.
- § 25105 “Construction” means onsite work to install permanent equipment or structure for any facility. “Construction” does not include any of the following: (a) The…
- § 25106 “Public advisor” means the public advisor employed by the commission pursuant to Section 25217.1.
- § 25107 “Electric transmission line” means any electric powerline carrying electric power from a thermal powerplant located within the state to a point of junction…
- § 25108 “Electric utility” means any person engaged in, or authorized to engage in, generating, transmitting, or distributing electric power by any facilities,…
- § 25109 “Energy” means work or heat that is, or may be, produced from any fuel or source whatsoever.
- § 25110 “Facility” means any electric transmission line or thermal powerplant, or both electric transmission line and thermal powerplant, regulated according to the…
- § 25111 “Account” means the Energy Resources Programs Account.
- § 25112 “Member” or “member of the commission” means a member of the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission appointed pursuant to Section 25200.
- § 25113 “Notice” means the notice of intent, as further defined in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 25500), which shall state the intention of an applicant to file…
- § 25114 “Interested party” means any person whom the commission finds and acknowledges as having a real and direct interest in any proceeding or action carried on,…
- § 25115 “Equivalent certification program” means a program, as further defined in Section 25540.5, administered by a county and approved by the commission, which may…
- § 25116 “Person” means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. “Person” also…
- § 25117 “Plan” means the Emergency Load Curtailment and Energy Distribution Plan.
- § 25118 “Service area” means any contiguous geographic area serviced by the same electric utility.
- § 25119 “Site” means any location on which a facility is constructed or is proposed to be constructed.
- § 25120 “Thermal powerplant” means any stationary or floating electrical generating facility using any source of thermal energy, with a generating capacity of 50…
- § 25121 “Fuel” means petroleum, crude oil, petroleum product, coal, natural gas, or any other substance used primarily for its energy content.
- § 25122 “Gas utility” means any person engaged in, or authorized to engage in, distributing or transporting natural gas, including, but not limited to, any such person…
- § 25123 “Modification of an existing facility” means any alteration, replacement, or improvement of equipment that results in a 50-megawatt or more increase in the…
- § 25124 “Major oil producer” means any person who produces oil in amount determined by the commission as having a major effect on energy supplies.
- § 25125 “Major natural gas producer” means any person who produces natural gas in amounts determined by the commission as having a major effect on energy supplies.
- § 25126 “Major marketer” means any person who sells natural gas or oil in amounts determined by the commission as having a major effect on energy supplies.
- § 25127 “Refiner” means any person who owns, operates, or controls the operations of one or more refineries.
- § 25128 “Refinery” means any industrial plant, regardless of capacity, processing crude oil feedstock and manufacturing oil products.
- § 25129 “Foreign” means any area exclusive of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
- § 25130 “Nonresidential” building means any building which is heated or cooled in its interior, and is of an occupancy type other than Type H, I, or J, as defined in…
- § 25131 “Residential building” means any hotel, motel, apartment house, lodginghouse, single- and dwelling, or other residential building which is heated or…
- § 25132 “Load management” means any utility program or activity that is intended to reshape deliberately a utility’s load duration curve.
- § 25133 “Geothermal element” means an element of a county general plan consisting of a statement of geothermal development policies, including a diagram or diagrams…
- § 25134 “Cogeneration” means the sequential use of energy for the production of electrical and useful thermal energy. The sequence can be thermal use followed by power…
- § 25135 “Conversion” means the processes by which residue is converted to a more usable energy form, including, but not limited to, combustion, anaerobic digestion,…
- § 25136 “Residue” means any organic matter left as residue, such as agricultural and forestry residue, including, but not limited to, conifer thinnings, dead and dying…
- § 25140 “Solar thermal powerplant” means a thermal powerplant in which 75 percent or more of the total energy output is from solar energy and the use of backup fuels,…
- § 25141 “Unbranded,” as applied to fuel, means gasoline and diesel fuel sold for wholesale or retail distribution to consumers without proprietary additives or…
- § 25142 “Destination facility” means any structure, group of structures, equipment, pipeline, or device, other than a vessel, that receives oil in bulk to or from a…