§ 8-1-2.4-2 — Definitions

Indiana § 8-1-2.4-2

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 1: UTILITIES GENERALLY
• Ch. 2.4: Alternate Energy Production, Cogeneration, and Small

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(a) The definitions in this section apply
throughout this chapter.
(b) "Alternate energy production facility" means:
(1) any solar, wind turbine, waste management, resource
recovery, refuse-derived fuel, organic waste biomass, or wood
burning facility;
(2) any land, system, building, or improvement that is located at
the project site and is necessary or convenient to the construction,
completion, or operation of the facility; and
(3) the transmission or distribution facilities necessary to conduct
the energy produced by the facility to users located at or near the
project site.
(c) "Cogeneration facility" means:
(1) a facility that:
(A) simultaneously generates electricity and useful thermal
energy; and
(B) meets the energy efficiency standards established for
cogeneration facilities by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission under 16 U.S.C. 824a-3;
(2) any land, system, building, or improvement that is located at
the project site and is necessary or convenient to the construction,
completion, or operation of the facility; and
(3) the transmission or distribution facilities necessary to conduct
the energy produced by the facility to users located at or near the
project site.
(d) "Electric utility" means any public utility or municipally owned
utility that owns, operates, or manages any electric plant.
(e) "Small hydro facility" means:
(1) a hydroelectric facility at a dam;
(2) any land, system, building, or improvement that is located at
the project site and is necessary or convenient to the construction,
completion, or operation of the facility; and
(3) the transmission or distribution facilities necessary to conduct
the energy produced by the facility to users located at or near the
project site.
(f) "Steam utility" means any public utility or municipally owned
utility that owns, operates, or manages a steam plant.
(g) "Private generation project" means a cogeneration facility that
has an electric generating capacity of eighty (80) megawatts or more
and is:
(1) primarily used by its owner for the owner's industrial,
commercial, heating, or cooling purposes; or
(2) a qualifying facility for purposes of the Public Utility
Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 that produces electricity and
useful thermal energy that is primarily used by a single host
operation for industrial, commercial, heating, or cooling purposes
and is:
(A) located on the same site as the host operation; or
(B) determined by the commission to be a facility that:
(i) satisfies the requirements of this chapter;
(ii) is located on or contiguous to the property on which the
host operation is sited; and
(iii) is directly integrated with the host operation.
As added by Acts 1982, P.L.72, SEC.1. Amended by
P.L.23-1988, SEC.31; P.L.222-2014, SEC.2; P.L.264-2017,
SEC.2.