Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-2. “Clean energy projects”
(1) Any of the following projects:
Terms Used In Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-2
- clean coal technology: means a technology (including precombustion treatment of coal):
Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-3
- coal gasification facility: means a facility in Indiana that uses a manufacturing process that converts coal into a clean gas that can be used:
Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-4
- commission: refers to the Indiana utility regulatory commission. See Indiana Code 8-1-1-1
- new energy production or generating facility: refers to a generation or coal gasification facility that satisfies all of the following:
Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-8
- nuclear energy production or generating facility: means :
Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-8.5
- renewable energy resource: means the following:
Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-10
(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).
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.