Definitions.

As used in the Efficient Use of Energy Act: A. "achievable" means those energy efficiency or load management resources available to the utility using its best efforts; B. "advanced conductor" means a conductor that has a direct current electrical resistance at least ten percent lower than existing conductors of a similar diameter while simultaneously increasing the energy carrying capacity by at least seventy-five percent; C. "advanced grid technology" means hardware or software technology that increases the efficiency, capacity or reliability of existing or new electric transmission and distribution systems, facilities and equipment and includes advanced conductors, thermal ratings, grid enhancing technology and technology determined by the commission or the federal energy regulation commission to increase the efficiency, capacity or reliability of an existing or new transmission facility; D. "advanced power flow controllers" means hardware or software technology used to push or pull electric power in a manner that balances overloaded lines and underused corridors within a distribution or transmission system; E. "commission" means the public regulation commission; F. "cost-effective" means that the energy efficiency or load management program meets the utility cost test; G. "customer" means a utility customer at a single, contiguous field, location or facility, regardless of the number of meters at that field, location or facility; H. "distribution cooperative utility" means a utility with distribution facilities organized as a rural electric cooperative pursuant to Laws 1937, Chapter 100 or the Rural Electric Cooperative Act [Chapter 62, Article 15 NMSA 1978] or similarly organized in other states; I. "dynamic line ratings" means hardware or software technology used to appropriately update the calculated thermal limits of existing distribution or transmission lines based on real-time and forecasted weather conditions; J. "energy efficiency" means measures, including energy conservation measures, or programs that target consumer behavior, equipment or devices to result in a decrease in consumption of electricity and natural gas without reducing the amount or quality of energy services; K. "grid enhancing technology" means hardware or software technology that reduces congestion or enhances the flexibility of electric transmission and distribution systems by increasing the capacity of a line or rerouting electricity from overloaded to uncongested lines while maintaining industry safety standards and includes dynamic line ratings, advanced power flow controllers and topology optimization; L. "large customer" means a customer with electricity consumption greater than seven thousand megawatt-hours per year or natural gas use greater than three hundred sixty thousand decatherms per year; M. "load management" means measures or programs that target equipment or devices to result in decreased peak electricity demand or shift demand from peak to off- peak periods; N. "program costs" means the prudent and reasonable costs of developing and implementing energy efficiency and load management programs, but "program costs" does not include charges for incentives or the removal of regulatory disincentives; O. "public utility" means a public utility that is not also a distribution cooperative utility; P. "topology optimization" means hardware or software technology that identifies reconfigurations of the distribution or transmission grid and can enable the routing of power flows around congested or overloaded distribution or transmission elements; and Q. "utility cost test" means a standard that is met if the monetary costs that are borne by the public utility and that are incurred to develop, acquire and operate energy efficiency or load management resources on a life-cycle basis are less than the avoided monetary costs associated with developing, acquiring and operating the associated supply-side resources.