Michigan Laws 460.1003 – Definitions; A to D
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 460.1003
- Board: means the wind energy resource zone board created under section 143. See Michigan Laws 460.1003
- Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 460.1003
- Customer meter: means an electric meter of a provider's retail customer. See Michigan Laws 460.1003
- Integrated gasification combined cycle facility: means a gasification facility that uses a thermochemical process, including high temperatures and controlled amounts of air and oxygen, to break substances down into their molecular structures and that uses exhaust heat to generate electricity. See Michigan Laws 460.1007
- Integrated pyrolysis combined cycle facility: means a pyrolysis facility that uses exhaust heat to generate electricity. See Michigan Laws 460.1007
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Provider: means an electric provider or a natural gas provider. See Michigan Laws 460.1009
- Site: means a contiguous site, regardless of the number of meters at that site. See Michigan Laws 460.1013
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
As used in this act:
(a) “Applicable regional transmission organization” means a nonprofit, member-based organization governed by an independent board of directors that serves as the regional transmission organization approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with oversight responsibility for the region that includes the provider‘s service territory.
(b) “Biomass” means any organic matter that is not derived from fossil fuels, that can be converted to usable fuel for the production of energy, and that replenishes over a human, not a geological, time frame, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(i) Agricultural crops and crop wastes.
(ii) Short-rotation energy crops.
(iii) Herbaceous plants.
(iv) Trees and wood, but only if derived from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems, as defined in section 261c of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1261c.
(v) Paper and pulp products.
(vi) Precommercial wood thinning waste, brush, or yard waste.
(vii) Wood wastes and residues from the processing of wood products or paper.
(viii) Animal wastes.
(ix) Wastewater sludge or sewage.
(x) Aquatic plants.
(xi) Food production and processing waste.
(xii) Organic by-products from the production of biofuels.
(c) “Board” means the wind energy resource zone board created under section 143.
(d) “Carbon dioxide emissions benefits” means that the carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated by the advanced cleaner energy system are at least 85% less or, for an integrated gasification combined cycle facility or an integrated pyrolysis combined cycle facility, 70% less than the average carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated from all coal-fired electric generating facilities operating in this state on January 1, 2008.
(e) “Cogeneration facility” means a facility that produces both electricity and useful thermal energy, such as heat or steam, in a way that is more efficient than the separate production of those forms of energy.
(f) “Commission” means the Michigan public service commission.
(g) “Customer meter” means an electric meter of a provider’s retail customer. Customer meter does not include a municipal water pumping meter or additional meters at a single site that were installed specifically to support interruptible air conditioning, interruptible water heating, net metering, or time-of-day tariffs.
(h) “Distributed generation program” means the program established by the commission under section 173.