Section 1691 - Definitions.

In this Article the following definitions apply.

(a) General Definitions.

(1) “Accessible place” means a place on an appliance that can be easily seen without the need for tools to remove any covering.

(2) “Authorized entities” means the owner of the equipment, the user of the equipment, or the owner's or user's delegated agent.

(3) “Authentication” means a method of verifying the authority of a user, process, or device to access resources in a connected device.

(4) “Basic model” means all units of a given type of appliance (or class thereof) that are manufactured by the same manufacturer or manufacturers, have the same primary energy source, and have the same electrical, physical, or functional characteristics that affect compliance with a flexible demand standard.

(5) “Communication layers” mean the organization of communication into separate functional components that interact in a sequential and hierarchical way.

(6) “Communication link” means the mechanism for bidirectional data transfers between the connected device and one or more external applications, devices, or systems.

(7) “Connected device” means any device that can wirelessly communicate via open standards with entities outside the device by means of integrated or separate communications hardware or software. A device that is able to receive but not send communication is not a connected device.

(8) “Connected ready device” means a device that is designed to perform as a connected device by means of separate communications hardware or software, where any separate hardware or software needed for communication is not included with the device and must be purchased or acquired separately. For the purpose of this Article a device that includes all communications hardware and software needed to perform as a connected device is not considered connected ready; a device including all hardware and software needed for connectivity is a connected device, even if the included hardware or software is separable or requires installation. See also “connected device”.

(9) “Consent” means permission or agreement to use the capabilities of an appliance subject to this Article to schedule, shift, or curtail its use. Consent may be express or implied.

(10) “Consumer” means the end user of an appliance; a consumer may also be a customer of an electric utility. See also “customer”.

(11) “Consumer product” means any appliance or device that consumes energy, controls the energy consumption of another device or appliance, or charges a battery and is distributed in commerce for personal use by individuals.

(12) “Customer” means a purchaser of service from an electric utility; a customer may also be the consumer of an appliance. See also “consumer”.

(13) “Energy Commission” means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.

(14) “Executive Director” means the executive director of the Energy Commission or their designee.

(15) “FAD” means the Flexible Appliance Database established pursuant to section 1695(c) of this Article and maintained by the Energy Commission.

(16) “Flexible demand” means the capability to schedule, shift, or curtail the electrical demand of a load-serving entity's customer through direct action by the customer or through action by a third party, a load-serving entity, or a grid balancing authority, with the customer's consent.

(17) “Load-serving entity” means an electrical corporation as defined in Section 218 of the Public Utilities Code, an electric service provider as defined in Section 218.3 of the Public Utilities Code, or a community choice aggregator as defined in Section 331.1 of the Public Utilities Code. “Load-serving entity” does not include any of the following:

(A) A local publicly owned electric utility;

(B) The State Water Resources Development System commonly known as the State Water Project; or

(C) Customer generation located on the customer's site or providing electric service through arrangements authorized by Public Utilities Code section 218, if the customer generation, or the load it serves, meets one of the following criteria:

1. It takes standby service from the electrical corporation on a California Public Utilities Commission-approved rate schedule that provides for adequate backup planning and operating reserves for the standby customer class;

2. It is not physically interconnected to the electrical transmission or distribution grid, so that, if the customer generation fails, backup electricity is not supplied from the electrical grid; or

3. There is physical assurance that the load served by the customer generation will be curtailed concurrently and commensurately with an outage of the customer generation.

(18) “Local publicly owned electric utility” has the meaning specified in Section 224.3 of the California Public Utilities Code.

(19) “Logical” means accessible through a hardware or software interface.

(20) “Manufacturer” means any person engaged in the production or assembly of an appliance or commercial and industrial equipment, or any person that has responsibility for the production or assembly of an appliance, including but not limited to private brand packagers and re-assemblers.

(21) “Model” means any collection of appliance units to which the manufacturer has assigned the same model number.

(22) “Model number” means a combination of letters, digits, or characters representing the manufacturer, brand, design, or performance of an appliance.

(23) “Open standards” means standards adopted or published, individually or jointly, by one or more of the following organizations: the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), or Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

(24) “Personal information” has the meaning specified in California Civil Code Section 1798.140(v).

(25) “Security feature” means a collection of functions used to protect the connected device from unauthorized use or unauthorized disclosure of data.

(26) “Sold or offered for sale in California” means any sale of or offer to sell an appliance for end use in the state, regardless of the seller's physical location, and includes, without limitation, internet, telephone, and mail order transactions. For purposes of this Article, the Uniform Commercial Code -- Sales (Division 2 (commencing with Section 2101) of the Commercial Code) does not define “sold or offered for sale” or determine where sales or offers for sale occur.

(27) “Special character” means any non-alphanumeric character that can be rendered on a standard, American-English keyboard, and includes the following ASCII special characters: !″#$%&’()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~

(b) Pool Control Definitions.

(1) “Dedicated-purpose pool pump motor” has the meaning specified in 10 CFR 431 Subpart Z (2021).

(2) “Direct load control switch” means a switch device that is designed, marketed, or sold to start or stop the operation of pool filter pumps or electric pool heaters.

(3) “Electric pool heater” means an appliance designed for heating non-potable water contained at atmospheric pressure, including heating water in swimming pools, spas, hot tubs, and similar applications. The heat source is electricity.

(4) “Heater switch” means a switch device that is designed, marketed, or sold to start or stop the operation of electric pool heaters.

(5) “Pool equipment” means electrical appliances used to provide services or features to pools.

(6) “Pool control” means equipment with the capability to start, stop, or otherwise control the operation of a pool filter pump and includes, but is not limited to, a pool timer, pool pump switch, heater switch, direct load control switch, or any component or group of components, including software, that has the capability to schedule the operation or control the start or stop times of a pool filter pump. Pool controls may control other pool equipment in addition to a pool filter pump.

(A). Pool control excludes:

1. controls marketed exclusively for use as a control for pool filter pumps with a rated hydraulic horsepower (hhp) greater than 2.5 hhp; or

2. safety interlock or shutoff controls; or

3. controls integral to a single pool filter pump or pump motor that are capable of controlling only that pump or motor.

(7) “Pool filter pump” means a product using a dedicated purpose pool pump motor or other type of end suction pump motor for the purpose of circulating pool water through a filter or strainer.

(8) “Pressure cleaner booster pump” means an end suction dry rotor pump designed and marketed for pressure-side pool cleaner applications.

(9) “Pool pump switch” means a switch device that is designed, marketed, or sold to start or stop the operation of a pool filter pump.

(10) “Pool timer” means a device that is designed, marketed, or sold to start or stop the operation of pool filter pumps or electric pool heaters.

The following documents are incorporated by reference in section 1691:

Credits

Note: Authority cited: Sections 25213, 25218, 25402(f) and 25402.11, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 25216.5(d), 25402(f) and 25402.11, Public Resources Code.

History

1.   New section filed 2-20-2024; operative 4-1-2024 (Register 2024, No. 8.

This database is current through 10/04/24 Register 2024, No. 40.

Cal. Admin. Code tit. 20, § 1691, 20 CA ADC § 1691