Glossary of Terms
A generating unit that is interconnected with an electric energy distribution system.
The plant, works equipment, systems and services necessary to distribute electric energy in a service area at a voltage of 25,000 volts or less.
The services required to transport electric energy by means of an electric distribution system to customers or from distributed generation to the interconnected electric system.
An account for distribution access service provided to a retailer or regulated rate provider.
A contractor authorized by the wire owner of an electric distribution system to perform certain operating and maintenance functions on behalf of the wire owner.
The rates and the terms and conditions that a distribution facility owner charges for providing service to its customers.
The business and system of: supply, transmission, distribution and services required to provide electric energy to consumers, from the location of electric energy generation to the location where customers consume electric energy.
Regulation that governs an entity holding a marketing of electricity business license which gives the entity the authority to engage in the marketing of electricity business. (Enabling Statute: Fair Trading Act, R.S.A. 2000, c. F-2)
An energy distribution, supply and service company, wholly owned subsidiary of the City of Calgary. Also, Enmax Energy Corporation - provides electricity and natural gas to residential and business customers across Alberta.
Includes distribution, transmission, energy services and generation. Provides regulated rate electricity service to residential and small commercial business consumers in the EDI (Epcor Distribution Inc.) service territory, for example, within the City of Edmonton.
Effective January 1, 2008. Created from AEUB to regulate oil and gas industry. See AUC for utility industry regulations.
An international organization for development of mandatory reliability standards for approval by appropriate jurisdictional authorities in Canada and the US relating to the interconnected transmission grid on both sides of the Canada/US border; funding and delegation of authority obtained from regional entities.
To provide electric energy to, or receive electric energy from, the interconnected electric system.
A fee paid by a customer when there is a switch from one retailer to another, while under contract to a retailer.
The United States federal agency with jurisdiction over interstate electricity sales, wholesale electric rates, hydroelectric licensing, natural gas pricing, and oil pipeline rates. FERC also reviews and authorizes liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, interstate natural gas pipelines and non-federal hydropower projects.
The charge for electric energy determined in accordance with section 4 (2) of Regulated Default Supply.
A wires company, distributing electricity throughout our Alberta service territory.
Marketing instruments to manage price risk, reduce the financial uncertainty and bring greater economic performance into the electricity market.
The number of repetitions of a periodic process in a unit of time. The standard frequency of the change in polarity of an alternating current via which electric energy is being delivered in the electric energy market, in Canada and the US, is 60 Hertz per second.
Regulated by the Alberta Ministry of Service Alberta, the Act enhances consumer protection through remedies, enforcement tools, and tougher penalties intended to discourage marketplace fraud.
The component of a power plant that produces, from any source, electric energy and ancillary services, and includes facilities that are necessary for the safe, reliable and economic operation of a generating unit.
The process by which thermal, mechanical, chemical or nuclear energy is converted into electrical energy, using an energy source, which may include natural gas, coal, nuclear fuel, wind, water (hydroelectric), biomass (waste products), solar heat, or any other means of converting basis energy contained in an energy source to electric energy.
The producer of electric energy.
One billion.
