Sec. 2. (a) The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.

(b) "Alternate energy production facility" means:

(1) any solar, wind turbine, waste management, resource recovery, refuse-derived fuel, organic waste biomass, or wood burning facility;

(2) any land, system, building, or improvement that is located at the project site and is necessary or convenient to the construction, completion, or operation of the facility; and

(3) the transmission or distribution facilities necessary to conduct the energy produced by the facility to users located at or near the project site.

(c) "Cogeneration facility" means:

(1) a facility that:

(A) simultaneously generates electricity and useful thermal energy; and

(B) meets the energy efficiency standards established for cogeneration facilities by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under 16 U.S.C. 824a-3;

(2) any land, system, building, or improvement that is located at the project site and is necessary or convenient to the construction, completion, or operation of the facility; and

(3) the transmission or distribution facilities necessary to conduct the energy produced by the facility to users located at or near the project site.

(d) "Electric utility" means any public utility or municipally owned utility that owns, operates, or manages any electric plant.

(e) "Small hydro facility" means:

(1) a hydroelectric facility at a dam;

(2) any land, system, building, or improvement that is located at the project site and is necessary or convenient to the construction, completion, or operation of the facility; and

(3) the transmission or distribution facilities necessary to conduct the energy produced by the facility to users located at or near the project site.

(f) "Steam utility" means any public utility or municipally owned utility that owns, operates, or manages a steam plant.

(g) "Private generation project" means a cogeneration facility that has an electric generating capacity of eighty (80) megawatts or more and is:

(1) primarily used by its owner for the owner's industrial, commercial, heating, or cooling purposes; or

(2) a qualifying facility for purposes of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 that produces electricity and useful thermal energy that is primarily used by a single host operation for industrial, commercial, heating, or cooling purposes and is:

(A) located on the same site as the host operation; or

(B) determined by the commission to be a facility that:

(i) satisfies the requirements of this chapter;

(ii) is located on or contiguous to the property on which the host operation is sited; and

(iii) is directly integrated with the host operation.

As added by Acts 1982, P.L.72, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.23-1988, SEC.31; P.L.222-2014, SEC.2; P.L.264-2017, SEC.2.