Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law of the Law on Thermal Energy

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The following basic concepts are used in this Law:

1) readiness passport – an annually issued document confirming the readiness of heat-producing and heat-transporting entities to work in the autumn-winter period;

2) individual heat supply system – a heat supply system that provides a single consumer with thermal energy from an autonomous heat source without connecting to the heating networks of centralized and local heat supply systems for the heating needs of an individual residential building;

3) local heat supply system – a heat supply system owned by one individual or legal entity or part of the common property of a condominium facility and operating for one or more consumers of thermal energy from one or more sources of thermal energy through heating networks that are not networks of a centralized heat supply system;

4) thermal network – a system of pipelines and devices (including central heating points, pumping stations) designed to transport and regulate the flow of coolant in order to transfer heat energy from heat energy sources to heat-consuming installations;

5) heat carrier – a liquid or gaseous substance (steam, air, water and other substances) used for the transportation of thermal energy;

6) thermal power – the amount of thermal energy that can be generated by a source of thermal energy, transmitted by heating networks and (or) accepted by the consumer of thermal energy per unit of time;

7) heat supply – providing consumers with thermal energy, heat carrier, including maintaining heat output;

8) heat supply development scheme – a document describing and justifying a set of actions for the development of thermal power engineering in the relevant administrative-territorial unit in order to meet the long-term need for heat supply services, taking into account the specifics of the relevant territory, developed and approved in accordance with this Law;

9) emergency reservation of heat supply – the minimum consumed thermal power or amount of thermal energy, ensuring a safe condition for personnel and the environment of heat-consuming installations of the consumer of thermal energy with a completely stopped technological process;

10) reliability of heat supply is a characteristic of the state of the heat supply system, which ensures the quality and safety of heat supply to consumers of thermal energy;

11) technological reservation of heat supply – the minimum consumed thermal power required by the consumer of thermal energy to complete the technological process of production, with a duration of time in hours, after which the corresponding heat-consuming installations can be turned off and the load reduced to emergency reservation of heat supply;

12) heat supply system – a complex of installations designed for the production, transportation and use of coolant;

13) quality of heat supply – compliance of heat supply characteristics with thermodynamic parameters established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

14) heat supply entities – heat-producing and heat-transporting entities;

15) heat–producing entity - an individual entrepreneur or a legal entity engaged in the production of thermal energy in accordance with this Law;

16) heat transporting entity – an individual entrepreneur or a legal entity engaged in the transportation and (or) sale of thermal energy in accordance with this Law;

17) heat–consuming installations - a complex of devices designed to use thermal energy, a heat carrier for the needs of a consumer of thermal energy;

18) thermal power engineering is a branch of production, transportation, sale and consumption of thermal energy;

19) planned indicators of thermal power engineering – the value of key indicators planned to be achieved in the short term;

20) actual heat energy indicators – the values of key indicators for a given (current) time period;

21) heat energy targets – the value of key indicators planned to be achieved in the long-term (strategic) perspective;

22) key indicators of the heat power industry – the main indicators (indicators) for assessing the state of the heat power industry;

23) thermal power engineering facilities – sources of thermal energy, heating networks and heat-consuming installations;

24) the authorized body in the field of thermal energy (hereinafter referred to as the authorized body) is the central executive body responsible for the management and intersectoral coordination in the field of thermal energy;

25) subjects of thermal power engineering – subjects of heat supply and consumers of thermal energy;

26) thermal energy is an energy resource that is a commodity, the consumption of which changes the thermodynamic parameters of heat carriers.;

27) thermal energy supply service – a set of services for the production, transportation and sale of thermal energy;

28) commercial accounting of thermal energy and (or) heat carrier – establishment of the quantity and parameters of thermal energy and (or) heat carrier by commercial metering devices, and in case of their malfunction or absence – by calculation method for commercial mutual settlements;

29) transportation of thermal energy – transmission and distribution of thermal energy, including the reception and delivery of thermal energy and (or) a heat carrier from a source of thermal energy to a consumer of thermal energy;

30) a consumer of thermal energy (hereinafter referred to as a consumer) is an individual or legal entity that purchases thermal energy for its own consumption and (or) further sale to a sub-consumer in accordance with this Law.;

31) a source of thermal energy is a thermal power plant, boiler houses and other devices and (or) installations intended for the production of thermal energy;

32) a commercial metering device is a technical device designed for commercial metering of thermal energy and (or) a heat carrier, approved for use in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.;

33) sub–consumer - a consumer whose heating networks and (or) heat-consuming installations are connected to the consumer's heating networks;

34) centralized heat supply system – a system of heat supply from one or more sources of thermal energy with the transportation of heat carrier to consumers via heating networks with a total connected load of consumers (using thermal energy for domestic needs) exceeding twenty megawatts;

35) fuel – substances used in economic activity for the production of thermal energy during their combustion;

36) the unified state management system for the fuel and energy complex (hereinafter referred to as the information system of the authorized body) is an information system of the authorized body designed to collect, process, monitor and analyze data from the fuel and energy complex in the field of thermal power engineering through information interaction of heat supply entities with the authorized body and other state bodies;

37) technological violation – failure or damage of equipment of heat energy sources, heating networks, including as a result of fire or explosions, deviations from the established modes, unauthorized shutdown or limitation of equipment operability or its malfunction, which led to disruption of the technological process of production, transmission, consumption of electric and (or) thermal energy;

38) direct consumer – a consumer whose heating networks are connected to collectors of heat energy sources of a heat-producing entity, and (or) connected to a steam pipeline of heat energy sources of a heat-producing entity;

39) the authorized body in the field of housing relations and housing and communal services is the central executive body that provides guidance in the field of thermal energy in terms of heat energy consumption.

This Law regulates public relations arising in the process of production, transportation, sale and consumption of thermal energy for municipal and industrial needs, as well as the high-quality functioning and development of heat supply systems and state regulation in the field of thermal energy.

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