En 502.01 "Check flow" means a flow rate of 15% to 25% of the rated capacity of a meter.
En 502.02 "Commission" means the New Hampshire public utilities commission.
En 502.03 "Cubic foot" means, for the purpose of measurement of gas to a customer, the amount of gas which occupies a volume of one cubic foot under the conditions existing in the customer's meter as and where installed, provided such meter is not subject to abnormal temperature conditions unless the meter is designed with temperature compensation.
En 502.04 “Customer” means any person, firm, corporation, cooperative marketing association, utility or governmental unit or subdivision of a municipality or of the state or nation supplied with gas service by a utility.
En 502.05 “Department” means the New Hampshire department of energy.
En 502.06 "Economic conservation" means conservation activities that cost less to implement than the value of the resources saved.
En 502.07 "Fast" means greater than plus 2% accuracy.
En 502.08 "Gas" means any manufactured or natural gas or any combination thereof.
En 502.09 “Incident” means “incident” as defined in 49 CFR Part 191.3.
En 502.10 “Jurisdictional LPG system" means:
(1) A system involving a single source which serves 10 or more customers; or
(2) A system where more than one customer is located in a public place.
En 502.11 “Landfill” means a facility which collects and disposes of waste by landfilling methods. The term includes facilities that collect and store waste indefinitely. The term does not include incinerators, land application sites, surface impoundments and injection wells.
En 502.12 “Landfill gas” means any flammable consisting primarily of methane and carbon dioxide and produced by aerobic and anaerobic decomposition of organic solid waste in a landfill.
En 502.13 "Landfill gas operator" means a person who engages in the transportation of landfill gas off site from the premises in which it was gathered except where the landfill gas is transferred in a pipeline that operates at less than atmospheric pressure from the premises where it was gathered to the premises where it is used and where both premises are controlled by the same entity.
En 502.14 "LNG" means liquefied natural gas.
En 502.15 "LPG" means liquefied petroleum gas.
En 502.16 "LPG operator" means a person who engages in the transportation of propane gas. An LPG operator includes but is not limited to an individual or supplier operating a jurisdictional LPG system in a housing project, apartment complex, condominium, manufactured home park, shopping center, or other system except those systems operated in support of a utility.
En 502.17 "Master meter system" means any underground gas pipeline system operated by a residential or commercial customer of a New Hampshire gas utility and utilized for the distribution of gas to ultimate consumers within, but not limited to, a definable area, such as a manufactured housing park, a housing project or an apartment complex, where the operator purchases metered gas from a public utility for resale through the operator's distribution system, which is beyond the control of the utility, and where the ultimate consumers served by the operator's distribution system purchase the gas directly through a meter or by other means, such as through rents.
En 502.18 "Meter" means a device which measures gas flow and which may include a gas diaphragm type, a rotary positive displacement type, an inferential turbine type or an ultrasonic type.
En 502.19 "Open flow" means a flow rate of 80% to 120% of the rated capacity of a meter.
En 502.20 "Peak shaving" means the use of fuels and equipment to generate or manufacture gas to supplement the normal supply of pipeline gas during periods of extremely high demand.
En 502.21 "Person" means an individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, state, cooperative association, or joint stock association, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof but does not include a municipality operating a gas system pursuant to RSA 38.
En 502.22 "Public place" means a place which is generally open to all persons in a community, such as churches, schools, and commercial buildings, as well as any publicly owned rights-of-way or property.
En 502.23 "Slow" means greater than minus 2% accuracy.
En 502.24 "Standard gravitational force" means acceleration at 32.17 feet per second squared.
En 502.25 "Total heating value" means the number of British thermal units (Btu) produced by the combustion, at constant pressure, of the amount of gas which would occupy a volume of one cubic foot at a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and under standard gravitational force with air of the same temperature and pressure as the gas, when the products of combustion are cooled to the initial temperature of the gas and air, and when the water formed by combustion is condensed to the liquid state.
En 502.26 "Turbine meter" means an inferential type meter.
En 502.27 "Utility" means any "public utility" as defined in RSA 362:2 engaged in the manufacture, distribution, sale, transmission or transportation of gas in the state, as limited in RSA 362:4-b with respect to liquefied petroleum gas.