Sec. 4. (a) As used in this chapter, “clean energy resource” means any of the following sources, clean sources, alternative technologies, or programs used in connection with the production or conservation of electricity:

(1) Energy from wind.

(2) Solar energy.

(3) Photovoltaic cells and panels.

(4) Dedicated crops grown for energy production.

(5) Organic waste biomass, including any of the following organic matter that is available on a renewable basis:

(A) Agricultural crops.

(B) Agricultural wastes and residues.

(C) Wood and wood wastes, including the following:

(i) Wood residues.

(ii) Forest thinnings.

(iii) Mill residue wood.

(D) Animal wastes.

(E) Animal byproducts.

(F) Aquatic plants.

(G) Algae.

(6) Hydropower.

(7) Fuel cells.

(8) Hydrogen.

(9) Energy from waste to energy facilities, including energy derived from advanced solid waste conversion technologies.

(10) Energy storage systems or technologies.

(11) Geothermal energy.

(12) Coal bed methane.

(13) Industrial byproduct technologies that use fuel or energy that is a byproduct of an industrial process.

(14) Waste heat recovery from capturing and reusing the waste heat in industrial processes for heating or for generating mechanical or electrical work.

(15) A source, technology, or program approved by the commission and designated as a clean energy resource by a rule adopted by the commission under IC 4-22-2.

(16) Demand side management or energy efficiency initiatives that:

(A) reduce electricity consumption; or

(B) implement load management, demand response, or energy efficiency measures designed to shift customers’ electric loads from periods of higher demand to periods of lower demand;

as a result of equipment installed, or customers enrolled, after January 1, 2010.

(17) A clean energy project described in IC 8-1-8.8-2(1).

(18) Nuclear energy.

(19) Electricity that is:

(A) generated by a customer owned distributed generation facility that is interconnected to the electricity supplier‘s distribution system in accordance with the commission’s interconnection standards set forth in 170 IAC 4-4.3; and

(B) supplied back to the electricity supplier for use in meeting the electricity supplier’s electricity demand requirements in accordance with the commission’s net metering rules set forth in 170 IAC 4-4.2.

(20) Combined heat and power systems.

(21) Electricity that is generated from natural gas at a facility constructed or repowered in Indiana after July 1, 2011, which displaces electricity generation from an existing coal fired generation facility.

(22) Underground pumped storage hydropower using:

(A) abandoned coal mines;

(B) abandoned quarries; or

(C) other suitable sites;

located in Indiana.

(23) Gas that is derived from the decomposition of organic matter and that:

(A) is fully interchangeable with; or

(B) can be combined with;

conventional natural gas for purposes of generating electricity.

     (b) Except for energy described in subsection (a)(9), the term does not include energy from the incineration, burning, or heating of any of the following:

(1) Tires.

(2) General household, institutional, commercial, industrial, lunchroom, office, or landscape waste.

     (c) The term excludes treated or painted lumber.

As added by P.L.150-2011, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.152-2022, SEC.3; P.L.83-2023, SEC.6.