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- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Applicable regional transmission organization: means a nonprofit, member-based organization governed by an independent board of directors that serves as the regional transmission organization approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with oversight responsibility for the region that includes the provider's service territory. See Michigan Laws 460.1003
- Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
- 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. See Michigan Laws 460.1003Board: means the wind energy resource zone board created under section 143. See Michigan Laws 460.1003 Carbon capture and storage: means a process that involves collecting carbon dioxide at its source and storing, or sequestering, it to prevent its release into the atmosphere. See Michigan Laws 460.1003 Clean energy: means electricity or steam generated using a clean energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.1003 Clean energy portfolio: means the percentage of an electric provider's total retail electric sales consisting of clean energy or renewable energy. See Michigan Laws 460.1003 Clean energy standard: means the clean energy portfolio required under section 51(1). See Michigan Laws 460.1003 Clean energy system: means an electricity generation facility or system or set of electricity generation systems that meets any of the following requirements:
(i) Generates electricity or steam without emitting greenhouse gas, including nuclear generation. See Michigan Laws 460.1003Commission: means the potato industry commission. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 460.1003 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Construction: means any substantial action constituting placement or erection of the foundations or structures supporting a transmission line. See Michigan Laws 460.1141 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant. Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name. Customer meter: means an electric meter of a provider's retail customer. See Michigan Laws 460.1003 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime. Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Distributed generation: means the generation of electricity under the distributed generation program. See Michigan Laws 460.1003 Distributed generation program: means the program established by the commission under section 173. See Michigan Laws 460.1003 District: means a district created under a clean energy program by a municipality. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Efficient electrification measure: means an electric appliance or equipment installed in an existing building to electrify, in whole or in part, space heating, water heating, cooling, drying, cooking, industrial processes, or another building or industrial end use that would otherwise be served by combustion of fossil fuel on the premises and that meets best-practice standards for cost-effective energy efficiency as determined by the commission. See Michigan Laws 460.1005 Efficient electrification measures plan: means a plan to offer and promote efficient electrification measures. See Michigan Laws 460.1005 Electric provider: means any of the following:
(i) Any person or entity that is regulated by the commission for the purpose of selling electricity to retail customers in this state. See Michigan Laws 460.1005electric utility: means any person or entity whose rates are regulated by the commission for the purpose of selling electricity to retail customers in this state. See Michigan Laws 460.1171 Eligible electric generator: means a methane digester or renewable energy system with a generation capacity limited to 110% of the customer's electricity consumption for the previous 12 months. See Michigan Laws 460.1005 Energy conservation: means the reduction of customer energy use through the installation of measures or changes in energy usage behavior. See Michigan Laws 460.1005 Energy efficiency: means a decrease in customer consumption of electricity or natural gas achieved through measures or programs that target customer behavior, equipment, devices, or materials without reducing the quality of energy services. See Michigan Laws 460.1005 Energy efficiency improvement: means equipment, devices, or materials intended to decrease energy consumption, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(i) Insulation in walls, roofs, floors, foundations, or heating and cooling distribution systems. See Michigan Laws 460.963Energy project: means the installation or modification of an energy efficiency improvement or the acquisition, installation, or improvement of a renewable energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Energy star: means the voluntary partnership among the United States Department of Energy, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, product manufacturers, local utilities, and retailers to help promote energy efficient products by labeling with the energy star logo, educate consumers about the benefits of energy efficiency, and help promote energy efficiency in buildings by benchmarking and rating energy performance. See Michigan Laws 460.1005 Energy storage system: means any technology that is capable of absorbing energy, storing the energy for a period of time, and redelivering the energy. See Michigan Laws 460.1005 Energy waste reduction plan: means a plan under section 71. See Michigan Laws 460.1005 Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other. Federal approval: means approval by the applicable regional transmission organization or other Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-approved transmission planning process of a transmission project that includes the transmission line. See Michigan Laws 460.1005 Felony: means a violation of a penal law of this state for which the offender, upon conviction, may be punished by imprisonment for more than 1 year or an offense expressly designated by law to be a felony. See Michigan Laws 761.1 Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006. Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC Governing body: means the township board of a township or the council or other similar elected legislative body of a city or village. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Greenhouse gas: means carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride. See Michigan Laws 460.1007 Grid reliability: means the ability, as defined by the regional transmission organization, of the bulk power system to withstand sudden, unexpected disturbances, such as short circuits or unanticipated loss of system elements because of natural causes. See Michigan Laws 460.1007 Gum rosin: means rosin remaining after the distillation of gum spirits of turpentine. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Gum spirits of turpentine: means spirits of turpentine made from gum (oleoresin) from a living tree. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Home energy audit: means an evaluation of the energy performance of a residential structure, by a qualified person using building-performance diagnostic equipment and complying with American national standards institute approved home energy audit standards, that meets both of the following requirements:
(i) Determines how best to optimize energy performance while maintaining or improving human comfort, health, and safety and the durability of the structure. See Michigan Laws 460.963Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate. in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q Incremental costs of compliance: means the net revenue required by an electric provider to comply with the renewable energy standard, calculated as provided under section 47. See Michigan Laws 460.1007 Independent transmission company: means that term as defined in section 2 of the electric transmission line certification act, 1995 PA 30, MCL 460. See Michigan Laws 460.1007 Judicial district: means the following:
(i) With regard to the circuit court, the county. See Michigan Laws 761.1Jurisdiction: (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 LEED: means the leadership in energy and environmental design green building rating system developed by the United States Green Building Council. See Michigan Laws 460.1007 Load management: means measures or programs that target equipment or behavior to result in decreased peak electricity demand such as by shifting demand from a peak to an off-peak period. See Michigan Laws 460.1007 Modified net metering: means a utility billing method that applies the power supply component of the full retail rate to the net of the bidirectional flow of kilowatt hours across the customer interconnection with the utility distribution system, during a billing period or time-of-use pricing period. See Michigan Laws 460.1007 Municipality: means a city, village, or township, all or some of whose residents are served by a municipal electric utility. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Natural gas provider: means an investor-owned business engaged in the sale and distribution at retail of natural gas within this state whose rates are regulated by the commission. See Michigan Laws 460.1009 Naval stores: means spirits of turpentine and rosin. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses. Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or any other business unit. See Michigan Laws 290.421 person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l plan: means a plan approved under section 22 or former section 21 or 23 or found to comply with this act under former section 25, with any amendments adopted under this act. See Michigan Laws 460.1011 program: means a program as described in section 5(2). See Michigan Laws 460.963 Property: means privately owned residential real property located within the municipality. See Michigan Laws 460.963 prosecuting attorney: means the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney for a county, or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 767A.1 Provider: means an electric provider or a natural gas provider. See Michigan Laws 460.1009 Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide. Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Record owner: means the person or persons possessed of the most recent fee title or land contract vendee's interest in property as shown by the records of the county register of deeds. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Renewable energy: means electricity or steam generated using a renewable energy system. See Michigan Laws 460.1011 Renewable energy credit: means a credit granted under a certification and tracking program established under section 41, which represents generated renewable energy. See Michigan Laws 460.1011 Renewable energy credit portfolio: means the sum of the renewable energy credits achieved by a provider for a particular year. See Michigan Laws 460.1011 Renewable energy resource: means a resource that naturally replenishes over a human, not a geological, time frame and that is ultimately derived from solar power, water power, or wind power. See Michigan Laws 460.1011 Renewable energy system: means a fixture, product, device, or interacting group of fixtures, products, or devices on the customer's side of the meter that use 1 or more renewable energy resources. See Michigan Laws 460.963 Renewable energy system: means a facility, electricity generation system, or set of electricity generation systems that use 1 or more renewable energy resources to generate electricity or steam. See Michigan Laws 460.1011 Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals). Resource adequacy: describes having sufficient resources to provide customers with a continuous supply of electricity at the proper voltage and frequency, virtually always and across a range of reasonably foreseeable conditions. See Michigan Laws 460.1011 Rosin: includes gum rosin and wood rosin. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Route: means real property on or across which a transmission line is constructed or proposed to be constructed. See Michigan Laws 460.1141 Rule: means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party. shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c Shipment of potatoes: means , and a shipment of potatoes shall be considered to take place, when potatoes are loaded within this state in a rail car, truck, or other conveyance in which the potatoes are to be transported for sale or otherwise put into the channel of trade and commerce. See Michigan Laws 290.421 Site: means , except as used in part 8, a contiguous site, regardless of the number of meters at that site. See Michigan Laws 460.1013 Spirits of turpentine: includes gum spirits of turpentine and wood turpentine. See Michigan Laws 290.301 state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Steam distilled wood turpentine: means wood turpentine distilled with steam from the oleoresin within or extracted from the wood. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. Testify: Answer questions in court. Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition. Transmission line: means all structures, equipment, and real property necessary to transfer electricity at system bulk supply voltage of 100 kilovolts or more. See Michigan Laws 460.1013 Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o Wind energy conversion system: means a system that uses 1 or more wind turbines to generate electricity and has a nameplate capacity of 100 kilowatts or more. See Michigan Laws 460.1013 wind zone: means an area designated by the commission under section 147. See Michigan Laws 460.1013 Wood rosin: means rosin remaining after the distillation of steam distilled wood turpentine. See Michigan Laws 290.301 Wood turpentine: includes steam distilled wood turpentine and destructively distilled wood turpentine. See Michigan Laws 290.301