Terms Used In Michigan Laws 460.933

  • Anaerobic digester: means a device for optimizing the anaerobic digestion of biomass for the purpose of recovering biofuel for energy production. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • Anaerobic digester energy system: means an anaerobic digester and the devices used to generate electricity or heat from biogas produced by the anaerobic digester or to store the biogas for the future generation of electricity or heat. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • District: means a district created under a property assessed clean energy program by a local unit of government that lies within the local unit of government's jurisdictional boundaries. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • Energy efficiency improvement: means equipment, devices, or materials intended to decrease energy consumption, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
  (i) Insulation in walls, roofs, floors, foundations, or heating and cooling distribution systems. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • Governing body: means the county board of commissioners of a county, the township board of a township, or the council or other similar elected legislative body of a city or village. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • Local unit of government: means a county, township, city, or village. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, unincorporated joint venture, or trust, organized, permitted, or existing under the laws of this state or any other state, including a federal corporation, or a combination thereof. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • program: means a program as described in section 5(2). See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • Property: means privately owned commercial or industrial real property located within the local unit of government. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Renewable energy resource: means a resource that naturally replenishes over a human, not a geological, time frame and that is ultimately derived from solar power, water power, or wind power. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • Renewable energy system: means a fixture, product, device, or interacting group of fixtures, products, or devices on the customer's side of the meter that use 1 or more renewable energy resources to generate electricity. See Michigan Laws 460.933
  • 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) “Anaerobic digester” means a device for optimizing the anaerobic digestion of biomass for the purpose of recovering biofuel for energy production.
      (b) “Anaerobic digester energy system” means an anaerobic digester and the devices used to generate electricity or heat from biogas produced by the anaerobic digester or to store the biogas for the future generation of electricity or heat.
      (c) “District” means a district created under a property assessed clean energy program by a local unit of government that lies within the local unit of government’s jurisdictional boundaries. A local unit of government may create more than 1 district under the program, and districts may be separate, overlapping, or coterminous.
      (d) “Energy efficiency improvement” means equipment, devices, or materials intended to decrease energy consumption, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
      (i) Insulation in walls, roofs, floors, foundations, or heating and cooling distribution systems.
      (ii) Storm windows and doors; multi-glazed windows and doors; heat-absorbing or heat-reflective glazed and coated window and door systems; and additional glazing, reductions in glass area, and other window and door system modifications that reduce energy consumption.
      (iii) Automated energy control systems.
      (iv) Heating, ventilating, or air-conditioning and distribution system modifications or replacements.
      (v) Caulking, weather-stripping, and air sealing.
      (vi) Replacement or modification of lighting fixtures to reduce the energy use of the lighting system.
      (vii) Energy recovery systems.
      (viii) Day lighting systems.
      (ix) Installation or upgrade of electrical wiring or outlets to charge a motor vehicle that is fully or partially powered by electricity.
      (x) Measures to reduce the usage of water or increase the efficiency of water usage.
      (xi) Any other installation or modification of equipment, devices, or materials approved as a utility cost-savings measure by the governing body.
      (e) “Energy project” means the installation or modification of an energy efficiency improvement or the acquisition, installation, or improvement of a renewable energy system or anaerobic digester energy system.
      (f) “Governing body” means the county board of commissioners of a county, the township board of a township, or the council or other similar elected legislative body of a city or village.
      (g) “Local unit of government” means a county, township, city, or village.
      (h) “Person” means an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, unincorporated joint venture, or trust, organized, permitted, or existing under the laws of this state or any other state, including a federal corporation, or a combination thereof. However, person does not include a local unit of government.
      (i) “Property” means privately owned commercial or industrial real property located within the local unit of government.
      (j) “Property assessed clean energy program” or “program” means a program as described in section 5(2).
      (k) “Record owner” means the person or persons possessed of the most recent fee title or land contract vendee’s interest in property as shown by the records of the county register of deeds.
      (l) “Renewable energy resource” means a resource that naturally replenishes over a human, not a geological, time frame and that is ultimately derived from solar power, water power, or wind power. Renewable energy resource does not include petroleum, nuclear, natural gas, or coal. A renewable energy resource comes from the sun or from thermal inertia of the earth and minimizes the output of toxic material in the conversion of the energy and includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
      (i) Biomass.
      (ii) Solar and solar thermal energy.
      (iii) Wind energy.
      (iv) Geothermal energy.
      (v) Methane gas captured from a landfill.
      (m) “Renewable energy system” means a fixture, product, device, or interacting group of fixtures, products, or devices on the customer’s side of the meter that use 1 or more renewable energy resources to generate electricity. Renewable energy system includes a biomass stove but does not include an incinerator or digester.

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