Maine Revised Statutes > Title 35-A > Part 3 > Chapter 33 – Small Power Production and Cogeneration
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- Affiliate: means any person who, as determined by the commission:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3303Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account. Associate: means any person other than a transmission and distribution utility that substantially participates in the ownership or operation of a cogeneration or small power production facility or any person that contracts to receive the thermal output of a cogeneration facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3303 Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings. Cogenerator: means a municipality or person:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3303Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts Municipal solid waste: means solid waste emanating from domestic and commercial sources within the State over which municipalities are authorized to exercise control. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3303 Municipal solid waste energy recovery facility: means a small power producer that depends upon municipal solid waste for at least 50% of its energy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3303 Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Person: includes a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, association, trust, estate, any other legal entity or natural person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Public utility: includes every gas utility, natural gas pipeline utility, transmission and distribution utility, telephone utility, water utility and ferry, as those terms are defined in this section, and each of those utilities is declared to be a public utility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Qualifying facility: means any small power producer or cogenerator as defined in this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3303 Renewable resources: means resources that are capable of being reproduced, replenished or restored following the use of these resources and resources that are inexhaustible. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3303 Small power producer: means a municipality or person owning or operating a power production facility with a power production capacity that, together with any other facilities located at the same site, does not exceed 80 megawatts of electricity and that depends upon renewable resources for its primary source of energy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3303 Transmission and distribution utility: means a person, its lessees, trustees or receivers or trustees appointed by a court, owning, controlling, operating or managing a transmission and distribution plant for compensation within the State, except where the electricity is distributed by the entity that generates the electricity through private property alone solely for the use of:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72