§ 8-1-8.8-2 — "Clean energy projects"

Indiana § 8-1-8.8-2

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 1: UTILITIES GENERALLY
• Ch. 8.8: Utility Generation and Clean Coal Technology

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As used in this chapter, "clean energy projects"
means any of the following:
(1) Any of the following projects:
(A) Projects at new energy production or generating facilities
that employ the use of clean coal technology and that produce
energy, including substitute natural gas, primarily from coal, or
gases derived from coal, from the geological formation known
as the Illinois Basin.
(B) Projects to provide advanced technologies that reduce
regulated air emissions from or increase the efficiency of
existing energy production or generating plants that are fueled
primarily by coal or gases from coal from the geological
formation known as the Illinois Basin, such as flue gas
desulfurization and selective catalytic reduction equipment.
(C) Projects to provide electric transmission facilities to serve
a new energy production or generating facility or a nuclear
energy production or generating facility.
(D) Projects that produce substitute natural gas from Indiana
coal by construction and operation of a coal gasification
facility.
(E) Projects or potential projects:
(i) to construct, after June 30, 2023, one (1) or more small
modular nuclear reactors in Indiana for the generation of
electricity to be directly or indirectly used to furnish public
utility service to Indiana customers, or at the site of a nuclear
energy production or generating facility that supplies
electricity to Indiana retail customers on July 1, 2011, under
rules adopted by the commission under IC 8-1-8.5-12.1; or
(ii) that enhance the safe and reliable use of nuclear energy
production or generating technologies to produce electricity.
(2) Projects to develop alternative energy sources, including
renewable energy resource projects or coal gasification facilities.
(3) The purchase of fuels or energy produced by a coal
gasification facility or by a nuclear energy production or
generating facility.
(4) Projects described in subdivisions (1) through (2) that use coal
bed methane.
(5) Projects to construct or repower a facility described in IC 8-1-37-4(a)(21).

Legislative History

As added by P.L.159-2002, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.174-2005, SEC.2; P.L.175-2007, SEC.12; P.L.150-2011, SEC.3; P.L.155-2022, SEC.2; P.L.83-2023, SEC.2.