Section 2: Interpretation In

these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires "Act" means the Electricity Act, 1999; "active" means the time integral for the product of voltage and the in-phase component of current flow; "apparent power" means the square root of the sum of the squares of the active power and reactive power; "business day" means a day, other than a Saturday, Sunday, or public holiday; "complaint" means a written or verbal expression of dissatisfaction about an action, proposed action, or failure to act by a licensee or retail seller, its employees or contractors; "confidential information" means any information specified under clause 1.5 of the Schedule; "connect" means the making and maintaining of contact between the electrical systems of two persons such as may allow the supply of electricity between those systems; "consumer" means any person supplied or entitled to be supplied with electrical energy for personal, industrial or commercial use but does not include a person supplied with electrical energy for delivery to another person; "control area" means the area in which a licensee has installed equipment and is able to exercise physical supervision and control over the equipment; "date of receipt" means in relation to the receipt by a consumer of a notice given by a licensee or retail seller- (a) in the case where the licensee or retail seller hands the notice, or sends a facsimile of the notice to the consumer, the date the licensee or retail seller hands such notice or sends it; (b) in the case where the licensee or retail seller leaves the notice at the consumer's supply address, the date the licensee or retail seller leaves it; (c) in the case where the licensee or retail seller gives the notice by post, a date 7 business days after the date the licensee or retail seller posts the notice; "demand" refers to the active power or apparent power consumed by a consumer in respect of an electrical installation integrated over a fifteen or thirty minute period; "distribute" in relation to electricity, means to distribute electricity to a consumer's point of supply using a distribution system; "distribution area" means the area in which a licensee is licensed to distribute electricity; "distribution licence" means a licence to distribute electricity; "distribution system" in relation to a licensee, means a system of electric lines and associated equipment at nominal voltage levels of 33 kV or below which that licensee is licensed to use to distribute electricity under its distribution licence; "licensee" means the holder of a licence under the Act; "electrical installation" means any electrical equipment at a consumer's supply address that is connected to, but not part of a distribution system; "embedded generating unit" means a generating unit which is connected to a distribution system; "embedded generator" means a generator whose embedded generating units are connected to a distribution system; "emergency" means an emergency due to the actual or imminent occurrence of an event which in any way endangers or threatens to endanger the safety or health of any person or which destroys or damages, or threatens to destroy or damage any property; "energy" includes active or reactive electrical energy; "ERA" means the Electricity Regulatory Authority established under the Act; "excitation control system" in relation to an embedded generating unit means the automatic control system that provides the field excitation for the embedded generating unit including excitation limiting devices and any power system stabiliser; "franchise consumer" refers to a consumer other than a non-franchise consumer and an embedded generator; "generating unit" means an electricity generator and related equipment essential to its operation, which together function as a single unit; "generation licence" means a licence to generate electricity issued under the Act; "generator" means a holder of a generation licence or a person who has been exempted from the requirement to obtain a generation licence; "governor system" means the automatic control system which regulates energy input (for example, steam, gas and water) into the turbine of a generating unit; "IEC" means the International Electrotechnical Commission, Switzerland; "IEEE" means the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, New York; "impulse voltage" means a wave of voltage which, without appreciable oscillations, rises rapidly to a maximum value and falls, usually less rapidly to zero with small, if any, loops of opposite polarity; "interruption" refers to temporary interruption of supply to a consumer but does not include disconnection for non-payment of bills or non-compliance with this Code; "load" means a customer's demand for electricity at a supply point; "point of common coupling" means the nearest point in a licensee's distribution system where connection is made between- (a) the licensee's distribution system and another licensee's distribution system; or (b) two or more consumers' electrical installation; "point of connection" in relation to an embedded generating unit, means the point at which the embedded generating unit is connected to the licensee's distribution system; "point of supply" (a) in relation to a low voltage electric line, means- (i) in the case of an underground line (unless sub-paragraph (iii) applies) the point at which that line crosses the boundary of the land; (ii) in the case of an overhead, line (unless sub-paragraph (iii) applies), the first point of connection of that line on the land being either- (A) if the line is carried onto the land by one or more poles, the first pole on the land carrying that line; (B) if the line is connected directly to premises on that land, that connection to the premises; (C) if it is not possible to determine the point of supply in accordance with sub-sub-paragraph (A), the point at which the line crosses the boundary of the land; and (iii) in the case of a line connected to a licensee's assets, the point at which the line is connected to a licensee's assets; and (b) in relation to a high voltage electric line, means the point agreed between the relevant licensee and the consumer supplied by that electric line; "power factor" means the ratio of the active power to the apparent power; "public lighting" means lighting provided by a licensee to a municipality or other local authority for the purpose of lighting public places; "quality of supply" means the measure of the ability of the distribution system to provide supply that meets the voltage quality requirements of these Regulations; "reactive energy" means the time integral of the product of voltage and the out of phase component of current flow; "reactive power" means the rate at which reactive energy is supplied; "redundant load" means a load connected to the distribution system that is planned to be permanently disconnected; "reliability of supply" means the measure of the ability of the distribution system to provide supply to consumers; "retail sales" means sales of electricity to consumers; "retail seller" means a person who holds a licence for retail sales of electricity, or exempted from the requirement to obtain such a licence pursuant to the Act; "rural area" means an area supplied with electricity by an electric line which- (a) forms part of a distribution system; and (b) is a single feeder, the length of which measured from the relevant zone substation is at least 15kms; "sale licence" means a licence to sell electricity pursuant to the Act; "supply" means supply to consumers, generation, transmission, distribution and sale including importation and exportation of electrical energy; "supply address" means the address where the consumer is being supplied with electricity; "System Operator" means a person designated to operate the power system as described in section 56 of the Act; "total harmonic distortion" means the ratio of the root-mean-square of the harmonic content to the root-mean-square of the fundamental quantity, expressed as a percent of the fundamental; "Tribunal" means the Electricity Disputes Tribunal established by the Act; "voltage" (except in the case of Impulse Voltage, means the Root Mean Square (RMS) of the phase to phase voltage.