§ 51:3062 — Definitions

§3062. Definitions
As used in this Chapter, the following words have the following meanings:
(1) "Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage" means the process of capturing and
permanently storing carbon dioxide from biomass energy generation.
(2) "Biomass" means forest products' manufacturing bioenergy feedstocks, which
may include but not be limited to the following:
(a) Forest products' manufacturing residuals, including but not limited to spent
pulping liquors, pulping byproducts, woody manufacturing residuals, paper recycling
residuals, wastewater and process water treatment plant residuals, and anaerobic digester
biogas.
(b) Harvest residues, including trees or portions of harvested trees that are too small
or of too poor quality to be utilized for wood products or paper products.
(c) Downed wood from extreme weather events and natural disasters, nonhazardous
landscape or right-of-way trimmings and municipal trimmings, and plant material removed
for purposes of invasive or noxious plant species control; biowaste, including landfill gas.
(d) Forest biomass derived from residues created as a byproduct of timber harvesting,
including but not limited to low-value wood, treetops, and tree limbs.
(e) Forest management activities conducted for stand improvement or to increase
yield, ecological restoration, or to maintain or enhance forest health including but not limited
to hazardous fuels reduction.
(f) Biomass materials recognized by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency as fuels under 40 CFR 241.4.
(g) Other used wood products, such as crates or pallets.
(3) "Commission" means the Louisiana Public Service Commission or other
appropriate governing body for an electric utility.
(4) "Electric utility" means a public or investor-owned utility, an electric cooperative,
municipal utility, or any private power supplier or marketer that is engaged in the business
of supplying electric energy to the ultimate consumer.
(5) "Net energy metering" means measuring the difference between electricity
supplied by an electric utility and the electricity generated by a net energy metering customer
and sold back to the electric utility over the applicable billing period.
(6) "Net energy metering customer" means an owner of a net energy metering
facility.
(7) "Net energy metering facility" means a facility for the production of electrical
energy that:
(a) Uses solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, or biomass resources to generate
electricity including but not limited to fuel cells and micro turbines that generate electricity
if the fuel source is entirely derived from renewable resources.
(b) Has a generating capacity of not more than twenty-five kilowatts for residential
use or three hundred kilowatts for commercial or agricultural use.
(c) Is located in Louisiana.
(d) Can operate with an electric utility's existing transmission and distribution
facilities.
(e) Is intended primarily to offset part or all of the net energy metering customer
requirements for electricity.
(8) "Sugarcane bagasse biomass" or "bagasse biomass" means the solid,
heterogeneous, fibrous agricultural waste that remains after extracting the liquid from
sugarcane stalks, which may include but is not limited to the following:
(a) Biomass derived from factory bagasse which is obtained from the industrial
extraction process and contains only trace amounts of the sugarcane liquid.
(b) Biomass derived from pressed cane stalks or farm bagasse which is obtained
from on-farm or small factory extraction and contains higher amounts of sugarcane liquid.
(c) Dewatered pulp derived from bagasse and recognized by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency as fuels under 40 CFR 241.4.

Legislative History

Acts 2003, No. 653, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 2003; Acts 2008, No. 543, §1, eff. June 30, 2008; Acts 2022, No. 275, §1.