2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16a - Planning and Energy Policy › Chapter 295 - Energy Planning › Section 16a-2. - Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
(1) “Department” means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection;
(2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection;
(3) “Energy” means work or heat that is, or may be, produced from any fuel or source whatsoever;
(4) “Energy emergency” means a situation where the health, safety or welfare of the citizens of the state is threatened by an actual or impending acute shortage in usable energy resources;
(5) “Energy resource” means natural gas, petroleum products, coal and coal products, wood fuels, geothermal sources, radioactive materials and any other resource yielding energy;
(6) “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, association, syndicate, company, trust, corporation, limited liability company, municipality, agency or political or administrative subdivision of the state, or other legal entity of any kind;
(7) “Service area” means any geographic area serviced by the same energy-producing public service company, as defined in section 16-1;
(8) “Renewable resource” means solar, wind, water, wood or other biomass source of energy and geothermal energy;
(9) “Energy-related products” means (A) energy systems and equipment that utilize renewable resources to provide space heating or cooling, water heating, electricity or other useful energy, (B) insulation materials, and (C) equipment designed to conserve energy or increase the efficiency of its use, including that used for residential, commercial, industrial and transportation purposes;
(10) “Energy-related services” means (A) the design, construction, installation, inspection, maintenance, adjustment or repair of energy-related products, (B) inspection, adjustment, maintenance or repair of any conventional energy system, (C) the performance of energy audits or the provision of energy management consulting services, and (D) weatherization activities carried out under any federal, state or municipal program;
(11) “Conventional energy system” means any system for supplying space heating or cooling, ventilation or domestic or commercial hot water which is not included in subparagraph (A) of subdivision (9) of this section;
(12) “Energy supply” means any energy resource capable of being used to perform useful work and any form of energy such as electricity produced or derived from energy resources which may be so used; and
(13) “Energy facility” means a structure that generates, transmits or stores electricity, natural gas, refined petroleum products, renewable fuels, coal and coal products, wood fuels, geothermal sources, radioactive material and other resources yielding energy.
(P.A. 74-285, S. 2, 20; P.A. 75-537, S. 1, 55; P.A. 77-614, S. 41, 610; P.A. 79-576, S. 1, 7; P.A. 82-231, S. 2, 8; P.A. 95-79, S. 54, 189; P.A. 07-242, S. 76; P.A. 11-80, S. 1, 36; P.A. 14-94, S. 52.)
History: P.A. 75-537 replaced Connecticut energy agency and its administrator with department and commissioner of planning and energy policy; P.A. 77-614 replaced department and commissioner of planning and energy policy with office of policy and management and its secretary; P.A. 79-576 added Subdivs. (i) to (l) defining “renewable resource”, “energy-related products”, “energy-related services”, and “conventional energy system”; P.A. 82-231 deleted electricity from definition of “energy resource”, added geothermal energy to definition of “renewable resource”, defined “energy supply” and applied all definitions under this section to Secs. 16a-45a, 16a-46, 16a-46a and 16a-46b; P.A. 95-79 redefined “person” to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995; P.A. 07-242 added Subdiv. (n) defining “energy facility”, effective June 4, 2007; P.A. 11-80 deleted references to Secs. 16a-45a, 16a-46, 16a-46a and 16a-46b re applicability of definitions, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management” and “Office of Policy and Management” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” and “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-94 redesignated existing Subdiv. (a) as Subdiv. (1), deleted former Subdiv. (b) re definition of “board”, redesignated existing Subdivs. (c) to (n) as Subdivs. (2) to (13), and made conforming changes, effective June 6, 2014.