Section 648-312-3 - DEFINITIONSA. Commission. "Commission" means the Maine Public Utilities Commission.B. Customer. "Customer" means any person or entity receiving transmission and distribution service from a transmission and distribution utility.C. Transmission and Distribution Utility. "Transmission and distribution utility" means a person, its lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by a court, owning, controlling, operating or managing a transmission and distribution plant for compensation within the State.D. Renewable Resource. "Renewable resource" means an electric generation facility that uses a fuel or technology as specified in 35-A M.R.S.A. §3210(2)(C)(2).E. Renewable Resource Research and Development Fund. "Renewable resource research and development fund" means the fund established pursuant to this Chapter to which retail consumers of electricity may make voluntary contributions to support renewable resource research and development and demonstration community projects using renewable energy technologies.95- 648 C.M.R. ch. 312, § 3