Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 15 > Chapter 24 > Part 31 - Property Related to Renewable Energy, New Energy Technology, and Clean Coal

• Biodiesel: has the meaning provided in 15-70-401. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Biogas: means methane gas produced through controlled biochemical processes in which bacteria digest animal, municipal, or other organic wastes in an oxygen-free environment. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Biomass: means any renewable organic matter, including dedicated energy crops and trees, agricultural food and feed crops, agricultural crop wastes and residues, wood wastes and residues, aquatic plants, animal wastes, municipal wastes, and other organic waste materials. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Carbon sequestration: means the long-term storage of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide, as defined in 15-6-158, in geologic formations, including but not limited to deep saline formations, basalt or oil shale formations, depleted oil and gas reservoirs, unminable coal beds, and closed-loop enhanced oil recovery operations. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Clean advanced coal research and development equipment: means equipment used primarily for research and development of emerging methods for pollution control, carbon capture, and carbon sequestration. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Coal gasification: means a process that converts coal into a synthesis gas composed of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and other gases. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Coal-to-liquid facility: means improvements and personal property used for the production of synthetic liquid fuels from coal. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Ethanol: means nominally anhydrous ethyl alcohol that has been denatured as specified in 27 CFR, parts 20 and 21, and that meets the standards for ethanol adopted pursuant to 82-15-103. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Integrated gasification combined cycle facility: means improvements and personal property of an electrical generation facility that uses a coal gasification process and routes synthesis gas to a combustion turbine to generate electricity and captures the heat from the combustion to drive a steam turbine to produce more electricity. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: means money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• principal business: means a renewable energy manufacturing facility with at least 50%, by value, of its annual production suitable for sale as renewable energy material, component parts, systems, or similar equipment. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Renewable diesel: means a biomass-derived fuel that is suitable for use in diesel engines that is hydrocarbon produced by hydrotreating and also through gasification, pyrolysis, or other biochemical and thermochemical technology, or any combination of these technologies. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Renewable energy: includes the following:

  (a)solar energy;

  (b)wind energy;

  (c)geothermal energy;

  (d)energy from the conversion of biomass;

  (e)energy from biogas;

  (f)energy from fuel cells that do not require a petroleum-based fuel;

  (g)energy from waste heat; and

  (h)cellulosic ethanol. See Montana Code 15-24-3102

• Renewable energy manufacturing facility: means improvements and personal property used by a facility with its principal business being the manufacturing of material, component parts, systems, or similar equipment for use in facilities that convert renewable energy into forms of energy useful to people, including electricity. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• Renewable energy research and development equipment: means equipment used primarily for research and development of the efficient use of renewable energy sources. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Sustainable aviation fuel: means an aviation fuel derived from renewable resources that enables a reduction in net life cycle carbon dioxide emissions compared to conventional fuels. See Montana Code 15-24-3102
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201