Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 3. ELECTRICAL SERVICE · Article 1. GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY GENERALLY · Part 4. SOLAR POWER FREE-MARKET FINANCING
46-3-62. Definitions.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.
As used in this part, the term:
- (1)
“Affiliate” means any entity directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with an electric service provider.#
- (2)
“Capacity limit” means a peak generating capacity in alternating current that is no greater than:#
- (3)
“Control” means the power to significantly influence the management and policies of any affiliate, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.#
- (4)
“Electric service provider” means any electric supplier that is engaged in the business of distributing electricity to retail electric customers in this state.#
- (5)
“Electric supplier” shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 46-3-3.#
- (6)
“Entity” means any business entity, including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or sole proprietorship.#
- (7)
“Maximum annual peak demand” means the maximum single hour electric demand actually occurring or expected to occur at a premises, measured at the premises’ electrical meter.#
- (8)
“Person” means any individual or entity.#
- (9)
“Premises” shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 46-3-3.#
- (10)
“Property” means the tract of land on which a premises is located, together with all adjacent contiguous tracts of land utilized by the same retail electric customer.#
- (11)
“Retail electric customer” means a person who purchases electric service from an electric service provider for such person’s use and not for the purpose of resale.#
- (12)
“Solar energy procurement agreement” means any agreement, lease, or other arrangement under which a solar financing agent finances the installation, operation, or both of solar technology in which the payments are based on the performance and output of the solar technology installed on the property.#
- (13)
“Solar financing agent” means any person, including an electric service provider and an affiliate, whose business includes the leasing, financing, or installation of solar technology.#
- (14)
“Solar technology” means a system that:#
Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.
History
Code 1981, § 46-3-62, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 1438, § 1/HB 57; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 46(13)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.
Amendments
The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “shall have the same meaning as set forth in” for “has the same meaning as provided in paragraph (3) of” in paragraph (5) and substituted “shall have the same meaning as set forth in” for “has the same meaning as provided in paragraph (6) of” in paragraph (9).
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.
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