Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 35-A > Part 3 > Chapter 36-A - Wood-Fired Combined Heat and Power Act

• Combined heat and power project: means a facility that uses wood fuel to generate electric heat and power that is used for industrial or space heating purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3622
• Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Net generating capacity: means the electric output of an electricity generating facility delivered to the transmission and distribution utility system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3622
• Program participant: means a combined heat and power project that is participating in the combined heat and power program established in section 3623. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3622
• 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: