California Public Utilities Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions

• Section 2801.
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in order to promote the more rapid development of new sources of natural gas and electric energy, to...
• Section 2802.
  “Private energy producer” includes every person, corporation, city, county, district, and public agency of the state generating or producing electricity not generated from conventional sources...
• Section 2803.
  “Interconnection” means the facilities necessary to physically connect the energy source of and the point of use by a private energy producer with the existing...
• Section 2804.
  “Transmission service” means the intrastate transfer of electricity or natural gas by a public utility for any private energy producer between the points of interconnection...
• Section 2805.
  “Conventional power source” means power derived from nuclear energy or the operation of a hydropower facility greater than 30 megawatts or the combustion of fossil...
• Section 2806.
  “Fossil fuel” means a mixture of hydrocarbons including coal, petroleum, or natural gas, occurring in and extracted from underground deposits.(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 915.)
• Section 2807.
  “Standby charge” means a charge by an electrical corporation for providing standby generation, transmission, and distribution facilities to a private energy producer employing other than...

Last modified: October 22, 2018