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Definition
QF Qualifying Facility
QSE Qualified Scheduling Entity
QSE Operator The person designated by the QSE to communicate with ERCOT on a 24-hour basis.
Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE) A Market Participant that is qualified by ERCOT in accordance with Section 16, Registration and Qualification of Market Participants, for communication with ERCOT for Resource Entities and LSEs and for settling payments and charges with ERCOT.
Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE) Clawback Interval Any QSE-Committed Interval that is part of a contiguous block that includes at least one RUC-Committed Hour unless it is:
  1. QSE-committed before the first RUC instruction for any RUC-Committed Hour in that contiguous block; or
  2. Part of a contiguous block of a QSE-Committed Intervals, at least one of which was committed by the QSE before the RUC instruction described in paragraph (a) above.
Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE)-Committed Interval A Settlement Interval for which the QSE for a Resource has committed the Resource without a RUC instruction to commit it.
Qualifying Facility (QF) A qualifying small power production facility or qualifying cogeneration facility under regulatory qualification criteria as defined in 16 U.S.C.A. ยง 796(17)(C) and (18)(B).
Quick Start Unit Generation units that are not On-line, but are capable of producing energy within the next Settlement Interval.