Sec. 3.
As used in this act:
(a) "Advanced cleaner energy" means electricity generated using an advanced cleaner energy system.
(b) "Advanced cleaner energy credit" means a credit certified under section 43 that represents generated advanced cleaner energy.
(c) "Advanced cleaner energy system" means any of the following:
(i) A gasification facility.
(ii) An industrial cogeneration facility.
(iii) A coal-fired electric generating facility if 85% or more of the carbon dioxide emissions are captured and permanently geologically sequestered.
(iv) An electric generating facility or system that uses technologies not in commercial operation on the effective date of this act.
(d) "Affiliated transmission company" means that term as defined in the electric transmission line certification act, 1995 PA 30, MCL 460.562.
(e) "Applicable regional transmission organization" means a nonprofit, member-based organization governed by an independent board of directors that serves as the federal energy regulatory commission-approved regional transmission organization with oversight responsibility for the region that includes the provider's service territory.
(f) "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.
(g) "Board" means the wind energy resource zone board created under section 143.
(h) "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, 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.
(i) "Commission" means the Michigan public service commission.
(j) "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.
History: 2008, Act 295, Imd. Eff. Oct. 6, 2008
Last modified: October 10, 2016