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<section article="gpu" article_name="Public Utilities" number="7-232" title_number="7" title_name="Gas, Electric, and Water Companies" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Electric Generation Facility Planning">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this part the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“District energy system” means an underground infrastructure asset whose primary purpose is to provide thermal energy to multiple buildings from a central energy plant or plants.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Duplicative interconnection request” means an interconnection request that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is substantially similar to another interconnection request submitted by the large load customer or the customer’s parent company or affiliate;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is submitted to an electric company in the State or in another state in the PJM region; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>if progressed further through the interconnection process, would cause the large load customer to materially change, delay, or withdraw the applicable interconnection request.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Incremental resources” includes one or a combination of the following facilities and resources, located within the applicable locational deliverability area:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>behind–the–meter energy storage facilities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>newly interconnected energy storage facilities; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>purchasing or establishing nonemitting resources within the locational deliverability area, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>new clean energy generation assets;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>new virtual power plant aggregations; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a demand response program that the Commission determines meets the goals established under § 7–234 of this subtitle, including programs administered by PJM.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Large load customer” means a commercial or industrial customer for retail electric service that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>has or is projected to have an aggregate monthly demand of at least 25 megawatts; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has or is projected to have a load factor of more than 60%.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Large load customer” does not include a commercial or industrial customer for retail electric service whose primary purpose is to operate as:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a water company or sewage disposal company;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a manufacturing facility;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a hospital;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a district energy system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>an agricultural facility; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>at the discretion of the Commission, another industrial facility.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Manufacturing facility” means a facility where the process of substantially transforming, or a substantial step in the process of substantially transforming, tangible personal property into a new and different article of tangible personal property by the use of labor or machinery occurs.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“On–site backup generating facility” means a generating facility that is not connected to the electric system.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Virtual power plant” means an aggregation of distributed clean energy resources and energy storage owned by a customer or a third party that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>provides electric system services; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>may be used by the customer or the third party for other applications when not providing electric system services.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Voluntary clean capacity rating program” means the program developed by the Commission under § 7–234 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
