Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 225 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RESOURCES › Title 225 CMR 14.00 - Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard - Class I › Section 14.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
Advancement of Biomass Conversion Generation
				Unit
. A Generation Unit that utilizes an Eligible Biomass Woody
				Fuel determined by the Department to significantly advance biomass energy
				conversion by either:
(a) utilizing a new energy conversion technology; or
(b) processing the woody biomass fuel in a new manner, but in
				no instance shall the Unit use a single cycle steam turbine generator. The Unit
				shall be amongst the first installed Generation Units, and demonstrate
				advancement in the commercial applicability, including advancements in the
				control and reduction of emissions other than greenhouse gas emissions, of
				biomass energy.
Aggregation
. A group of one or more
				Generation Units that receives a single Statement of Qualification from the
				Department under criteria and procedures set forth in
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				CMR 14.05(6).
Alternative Compliance Credit
. A
				credit obtained by a Retail Electricity Supplier upon making an Alternative
				Compliance Payment. Such credit is used to document compliance with
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				CMR 14.07. One unit of credit shall be
				equivalent to one RPS Class I Renewable Generation Attribute, Solar Carve-out
				Renewable Generation Attribute, or Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation
				Attribute.
Alternative Compliance Payment (ACP)
.
				A payment of a certain dollar amount per MWh, resulting in the issuance of
				Alternative Compliance Credits, which a Retail Electricity Supplier may submit
				to the Department in
lieu
of providing RPS Class I Renewable
				Generation Attributes, Solar Carve-out Renewable Generation Attributes, or
				Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation Attributes required under
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				CMR 14.07.
Assurance of Qualification
. A
				communication issued by the Department to Solar Carve-out II Renewable
				Generation Units that provides Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation Units
				with an assurance of qualification prior to being granted the approval to
				interconnect by their local Distribution Company, and sets deadlines for
				receiving the approval to interconnect to the grid in order to maintain this
				Assurance of Qualification.
Authorized Agent
. A person or entity
				that serves under an agreement entered into by each of the Owners or Operators
				of Generation Units within an Aggregation for all dealings with the Department
				and with the NEPOOL GIS.
Biomass Fuel Certificate
. A
				certificate issued in accordance with rules established by the Department in
				the Guideline on Eligible Biomass Fuel for Renewable Generation Units
				that:
(a) quantifies the supply of Eligible Biomass Woody Fuel or
				Manufactured Biomass Fuel;
(b) specifies the source of the Eligible Biomass Woody Fuel or
				Manufactured Biomass Fuel; and
(c) specifies the eligibility of the Eligible Biomass Woody
				Fuel or Manufactured Biomass Fuel as Forest Derived Residues, Forest Derived
				Thinnings, Forest Salvage, or Non-forest Derived Residues.
Blended Fuel
. A liquid or gaseous fuel
				that is blended from both Eligible RPS Class I Renewable Fuel(s) and ineligible
				fuel(s), a portion of whose electrical energy output may qualify as RPS Class I
				Renewable Generation under criteria set forth in
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				CMR 14.05(3).
Brownfield
. A disposal site that has
				received a release tracking number from MassDEP pursuant to
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				CMR 40.0000:
Massachusetts
				Contingency Plan
, the redevelopment or reuse of which is hindered by
				the presence of oil or hazardous materials, as determined by the Department, in
				consultation with MassDEP. For the purposes of
Brownfield
, the terms "disposal site", "release
				tracking number", "oil", and "hazardous materials" shall have the meanings
				giving to such terms in
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				CMR 40.0006:
Terminology, Definitions
				and Acronyms
. No disposal site that otherwise meets the requirements
				of 225 CMR 14.02:
Brownfield
shall be excluded from consideration as a
				Brownfield because its cleanup is also regulated by the Comprehensive
				Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act,
				42 U.S.C. §§
									9601-9675, the Resource Conservation
				and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C
				§§
									6921-6939g, or any other
				federal program.
Building Mounted Solar Generation
				Unit
. A solar photovoltaic Generation Unit with at least 75% of
				the nameplate capacity of the solar modules used for generating power installed
				on a building.
Business Day
. A business day shall
				mean Monday through Friday, exclusive of state and federal legal
				holidays.
Certificates Obligation
. A term
				defined in the NEPOOL GIS Operating Rules at Rule 4.1(b).
Clean Wood
. As defined in
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				CMR 19.006:
Clean
				Wood
.
Co-mingled Biomass Woody Fuel
. Any
				woody biomass fuel, that is clean and devoid of non-woody biomass, paints,
				stains or other contaminants, and fossil fuel derived materials, and which is
				physically co-mingled or mixed with Eligible Biomass Woody Fuel.
Commercial Operation Date
. The date
				that a Generation Unit first produces electrical energy for sale within the
				ISO-NE Control Area or within an adjacent Control Area. In the case of a
				Generation Unit that has been moved from a location within the ISO-NE Control
				Area or within an adjacent Control Area to another location in one of those
				Control Areas, the date that such Generation Unit first produced electrical
				energy for sale at its earliest location in those Control Areas. In the case of
				a Generation Unit that is connected to the End-use Customer's side of the
				electric meter, the date on which the local Distribution Company grants
				approval for the Generation Unit to interconnect with the grid. In the case of
				a Generation Unit that produces Off-grid Generation, the date that such
				Generation Unit first produces electrical energy. In the case of a Generation
				Unit that meets the eligibility requirements of
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				CMR 14.05 and co-fires an Eligible RPS Class
				I Renewable Fuel, the date when the Generation Unit first co-fires such
				Eligible RPS Class I Renewable Fuel.
Community Shared Solar Generation
				Unit
. A solar photovoltaic Generation Unit that provides net
				metering credits to three or more utility accounts, whose participants have an
				interest in the production of the Generation Unit or the entity that owns the
				Generation Unit, in the form of formal ownership, a lease agreement, or a net
				metering contract. No more than two participants may receive net metering
				credits in excess of those produced annually by 25 kW of nameplate DC capacity,
				and the combined share of said participants' capacity shall not exceed 50% of
				the total capacity of the Generation Unit.
Compliance Filing
. A document filed
				annually by a Retail Electricity Supplier with the Department documenting
				compliance with
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				CMR 14.07, consistent with the format set
				forth in the Guidelines and submitted no later than the first day of July, or
				the first Business Day thereafter, of the subsequent Compliance Year.
Compliance Year (CY)
. A calendar year
				beginning January 1st and ending December
				31st, for which a Retail Electricity Supplier must
				demonstrate that it has met the requirements of
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				CMR 14.07 and
				14.08.
Control Area
. A geographic region in
				which a common generation control system is used to maintain scheduled
				interchange of electrical energy within and without the region.
Current Use Program
. A state
				administered program that permits a property owner to have a parcel of land
				taxed at a rate based on the current use of the land including, but not limited
				to, open space, active forestry, or agriculture as opposed to the fair market
				or development value of the property.
DCR
. The Massachusetts Department of
				Conservation and Recreation (DCR) established by M.G.L. c. 21, § 1.
Dedicated Energy Crops
. Wood
				purposefully grown for the purpose of producing fuel, provided that such wood
				was not grown on land that sequestered significant amounts of carbon, such as a
				forest, and provided that such land does not have the economic potential to
				support production of any other agricultural crop grown for human consumption
				as food.
Distribution Company
. A distribution
				company as defined in M.G.L. c. 164, § 1.
Department
. The Massachusetts
				Department of Energy Resources (DOER), established by M.G.L. c. 25A.
Eligible Biogas Fuel
. A gaseous fuel
				that is produced by the contemporaneous bacterial decomposition or thermal
				gasification of Eligible Biomass Fuel. Eligible Biogas Fuel does not include
				natural gas, but does include renewable natural gas, which is Eligible Biogas
				Fuel upgraded to a quality similar to natural gas.
Eligible Biomass Fuel
. Fuel sources
				consisting of the following:
(a) Eligible Biomass Woody Fuel;
(b) Manufactured Biomass Fuel;
(c) Eligible Biogas Fuel;
(d) by-products or waste from animals or agricultural
				crops;
(e) food or vegetative material;
(f) algae;
(g) organic refuse derived fuel; and
(h) Eligible Liquid Biofuel.
Eligible Biomass Woody Fuel
. Woody
				fuels that are derived from the following sources, consistent with the
				requirements of
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				CMR 14.05(8):
(a)
Forest Derived Residues
.
1. Tops, crooks and other portions of trees produced as a
				byproduct, and trees collaterally damaged, during the normal course of
				harvesting material, such as timber, pulpwood or cordwood in the implementation
				of a silvicultural prescription as administered by a licensed or certified
				forester as prescribed in the Department's Guideline on Eligible Biomass Fuel
				for Renewable Generation Units.
2. Trees and portions of trees harvested for the purpose of the
				restoration and management of habitat for rare and endangered species as listed
				by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. Qualifying harvest
				areas must be approved by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
				Natural Heritage Program.
3. Other woody vegetation that interferes with regeneration or
				the natural growth of the forest, limited to locally invasive native species
				and non-native invasive woody vegetation.
(b)
Forest Derived Thinnings
.
1. Unacceptable growing stock which is defined as trees
				considered structurally weak or have low vigor and do not have the potential to
				eventually yield an eight-foot sawlog or survive for at least the next ten
				years.
2. Trees removed during thinning operations, the purpose of
				which is to reduce stand density and enhance diameter growth and volume of the
				residual stand.
(c)
Forest Salvage
.
1. Damaged, dying or dead trees removed due to injurious
				agents, such as wind or ice storms or the spread of invasive epidemic forest
				pathogens, insects and diseases or other epidemic biological risks to the
				forest, but not removed due to competition. Such eligible trees may be removed
				without limitation for biomass fuel, only if the injurious agent is a threat to
				forest health or risk to private or public resources, and if the United States
				Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the
				United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, or appropriate federal
				or state governmental agency has issued a declaration, rule, or order declaring
				a major threat to forest health or risk to private or public resources, or if
				they are harvested through a DCR-approved cutting plan.
2. Trees removed to reduce fire hazard within fire-adapted
				forest ecosystems, as certified by a letter to the Department from the state
				agency responsible for forestry in consultation with the appropriate
				environmental state agencies.
(d)
Non-forest Derived
				Residues
.
1.
Forest Products Industry
. Residues
				derived from wood products manufacturing consisting of Clean Wood.
2.
Land Use Change - Agricultural
.
				Trees cut or otherwise removed in the process of converting forest land to
				agricultural usage, either for new or restored farm land.
3.
Wood Waste
. Post-consumer wood
				products from Clean Wood; pruned branches, stumps, and whole trees removed
				during the normal course of maintenance of public or private roads, highways,
				driveways, utility lines, rights of way, and parks.
4.
Agricultural Wood Waste
. Pruned
				branches, stumps, and whole trees resulting from maintenance activities
				directly related to the production of an agricultural product that is not Clean
				Wood.
Eligible Forest Biomass Tonnage Report
. The report certified by a professional forester under the provisions of
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				CMR 14.05(8)  that details
				the amounts of Forest Derived Thinnings and Forest Derived Residues that may be
				removed from a harvest site to be Eligible Biomass Woody Fuel. In the case of a
				Forest Derived Residue, the Report further details whether such Forest Derived
				Residue is derived from harvest by-products or invasive species, as defined in
				the subcategories of Forest Derived Residue.
Eligible Landfill
. A landfill that has
				received an approval from MassDEP for the use of a solar photovoltaic
				Generation Unit at the landfill as a post-closure use pursuant to
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				CMR 19.143:
Post-closure Use of
				Landfills
.
Eligible Liquid Biofuel
. A liquid fuel
				that is derived from organic waste feedstock and meets the standards for
				advanced biofuels under the Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel
				Standard (RFS2) program. Organic waste feedstocks shall include, but not be
				limited to, waste vegetable oils, waste animal fats, or grease trap waste.
				Eligible Liquid Biofuel shall not include petroleum-based waste or Hazardous
				Waste as defined in
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				CMR 40.0006:
Terminology,
				Definitions, and Acronyms
, unless otherwise determined by the
				Department in consultation with MassDEP.
Eligible RPS Class I Renewable Fuel
.
				An Eligible Biomass Fuel, hydrogen derived from such fuels or hydrogen derived
				from water using the electrical output of a Renewable Generation Unit, but not
				hydrogen derived using RPS Class I Renewable Generation if the RPS Class I
				Renewable Generation Attributes of such Generation are sold, retired, claimed,
				used or represented as part of electrical energy output or sales, or used to
				satisfy regulatory obligations in any jurisdictions, and not hydrogen derived
				directly or indirectly from ineligible fuels.
Emergency Power Generation Unit
. A
				solar photovoltaic Generation Unit installed for the purpose of providing 67%
				or more of its annual electric output to be used on-site as prescribed by
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				CMR 14.09(2)(a)  at critical
				infrastructure that can be utilized in the event of an emergency or power
				outage. For purposes of
Emergency Power Generation
				Unit
, critical infrastructure includes, but is not limited to, the
				following: hospitals, police and fire stations, airports, emergency management
				agencies, acute/post-acute medical facilities with life sustaining equipment,
				water and sewer treatment facilities, pump stations, evacuation centers, and
				emergency communications centers that serve a life safety function.
End-use Customer
. A person or entity
				in Massachusetts that purchases electrical energy at retail from a Retail
				Electricity Supplier, except that a Generation Unit taking station service at
				wholesale from ISO-NE or self-supplying from its owner's other generating
				stations, shall not be considered an End-use Customer.
Executive Office
. The Executive Office
				of Energy and Environmental Affairs established by M.G.L. c. 6A, §
				2.
Fire-adapted Forest Ecosystem
. Natural
				forest communities characterized by vegetation including, but not limited to,
				pitch pine and/or scrub oak occurring on droughty soils, and that:
(a) have evolved with fire as a natural process;
(b) support and renew associated wildlife species and habitats;
				and
(c) are identified on the most recently updated U.S. Department
				of Interior, Geological Survey national LANDFIRE map.
Generation Attribute
. A non-price
				characteristic of the electrical energy output of a Generation Unit including,
				but not limited to, the Generation Unit's fuel type, emissions, vintage and RPS
				eligibility.
Generation Unit
. A facility that
				converts a fuel or an energy resource into electrical energy.
Geothermal Energy
. Heat energy stored
				in the Earth's crust that can be accessed for electric power generation.
GIS Certificate
. An electronic record
				produced by the NEPOOL GIS that identifies Generation Attributes of each MWh
				accounted for in the NEPOOL GIS.
Guideline
. A set of clarifications,
				interpretations, and procedures, including forms, developed by the Department
				to assist in compliance with the requirements of
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				14.00. The Department may issue new or revised
				Guidelines from time to time. Each Guideline shall be effective on its date of
				issuance or on such date as is specified therein, except as otherwise provided
				in 225 CMR
				14.00.
Historical Generation Rate
. The
				average annual electrical production from a Vintage Generation Unit that meets
				the requirements of
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				CMR 14.05(1)(a), stated in
				MWhs, for the three calendar years 1995 through 1997, or for the first 36
				months after the Commercial Operation Date if that date is after January 1,
				1995.
Hydroelectric Energy
. Electrical
				energy from a Generation Unit that uses flowing freshwater as the primary
				energy resource, with or without a dam structure or other means of regulating
				water flow, and that is not located at a facility that uses mechanical or
				electrical energy to pump water into a storage facility (
i.e
.,
				a so-called "pumped-storage facility").
Impacted Watershed
. All water bodies
				or areas of land hydrologically connected to a hydroelectric facility, whether
				located upstream or downstream, which may experience any alteration of their
				physical, biological, or ecological characteristics as a result of the
				operation or increased capacity expansion of a hydroelectric Generation
				Unit.
ISO-NE
. ISO New England Inc., the
				independent system operator for New England, the regional transmission
				organization for most of New England, which is authorized by the Federal Energy
				Regulatory Commission (FERC) to exercise for the New England Control Area the
				functions required pursuant to the FERC's Order No. 2000, the FERC's
				corresponding regulations.
ISO-NE Settlement Market System
. The
				ISO-NE's electronic database system into which all real-time load and
				generation data are entered and from which such data are provided to the NEPOOL
				GIS.
Low Impact Hydropower Institute
				(LIHI)
. A non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose stated purpose
				is to reduce the impacts of hydropower generation through the certification of
				hydropower projects that have avoided or reduced their environmental impacts
				pursuant to the Low Impact Hydropower Institute's criteria.
Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
.
				The aggregate quantity of greenhouse gas emissions, including direct emissions
				and significant indirect emissions such as significant emissions from land use
				changes, and temporal changes in forest carbon sequestration and emissions
				resulting from biomass harvests, regrowth, and avoided decomposition as
				determined by the Department in consultation with the MassDEP and the Executive
				Office, related to the full fuel life cycle, including all stages of fuel and
				feedstock production and distribution, from feedstock generation or extraction
				through the distribution and delivery of the finished fuel to the ultimate
				consumer, where the mass values for all greenhouse gases are adjusted to
				account for their relative global warming potential.
Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI)
. A nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose stated purpose is to reduce the
				impacts of hydropower generation through the certification of hydropower
				projects that have avoided or reduced their environmental impacts pursuant to
				the Low Impact Hydropower Institute's criteria.
Manufactured Biomass Fuel
. A biomass
				fuel that is prepared, other than by means of fuel drying, through a fuel
				processing facility that is separate from a Generation Unit and that utilizes
				Eligible Biomass Woody Fuel for production. Examples include, but are not
				limited to, the mechanical production of wood pellets or bio-dust, and the
				refinement of bio-oil through pyrolysis.
Marine or Hydrokinetic Energy
.
				Electrical energy derived from waves, tides and currents in oceans, estuaries
				and tidal areas; free-flowing water in rivers, lakes, streams, and human-made
				channels, provided that such water is not diverted, impounded, or dammed; or
				differentials in ocean temperature, called ocean thermal energy
				conversion.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center
				(MassCEC)
. The center established in M.G.L. c. 23J, §
				2.
Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
.
				The Trust under M.G.L. c. 23J, § 9, which administers renewable energy
				programs for the Commonwealth.
MassDEP
. The Massachusetts Department
				of Environmental Protection established by M.G.L. c. 21A, § 7.
Megawatt (MW)
. A unit of power equal
				to one million watts.
Megawatt-hour (MWh)
. A unit of
				electrical energy or work equivalent to one million watts of power operating
				for one hour, or, for the purpose of thermal energy, a unit of energy equal to
				3,412,000 British Thermal Units (Btu).
Merchantable Bio-products
. Products
				that are refined from a biomass fuel by a bio-refinery project in which the
				Generation Unit is integral. Products include, but are not limited to,
				merchantable chemicals such as additives, lubricants, or specialty chemicals,
				and other products which can be permanently sequestered for carbon
				reductions.
NEPOOL GIS
. The NEPOOL Generation
				Information System, which includes a generation information database and
				certificate system, operated by the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL), its
				designee or successor entity, that accounts for Generation Attributes of
				electrical energy consumed and generated within, imported into, or exported
				from the ISO-NE Control Area.
Off-grid Generation
. The electrical
				energy produced by a Generation Unit that is not connected to a utility
				transmission or distribution system.
Operator
. Any person or entity that
				has charge or control of a Generation Unit subject to
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				agent or lessee of the Owner, or a duly authorized independent
				contractor.
Opt-in Term
. The number of calendar
				quarters that a Solar Carve-out Renewable Generation Unit may generate Solar
				Carve-out Renewable Generation Attributes that are eligible to be deposited
				into the Solar Credit Clearinghouse Auction Account, as described in
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				CMR 14.05(4)(c) through
				(j).
Owner
. Any person or entity that,
				alone or in conjunction with others, has legal ownership, a leasehold interest,
				or effective control over the real property or property interest upon which a
				Generation Unit is located, or the airspace above said real property including,
				without limitation, a duly authorized agent of the Owner. For the purposes of
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				CMR 14.02,
Owner
does not mean a person or entity holding legal title or security interest
				solely for the purpose of providing financing.
Percent Under-compliance
. The
				difference, if positive, between 50% and the reported lifecycle greenhouse gas
				emissions over 20 years as reported in a Biomass Unit Annual Compliance Report
				by an RPS Class I Renewable Generation Unit that utilizes Eligible Biomass
				Woody Fuel, as provided in
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				CMR 14.05(8)(d).
Power Conversion Technology
. The
				design, process, and equipment by which an energy resource is converted into
				useful energy, as specified in Guidelines.
Relevant Hydroelectric Agency
. A
				federal, state or provincial agency with oversight over fish and wildlife,
				water quality, river flows, fish passage and protection, mitigation and
				enhancement opportunities, related to a hydroelectric facility located in the
				Impacted Watershed or that impacts downstream or upstream passage of fish and
				wildlife.
Renewable Generation
. The electrical
				energy output of a Renewable Generation Unit.
Renewable Generation Attribute
. The
				Generation Attribute of the electrical energy output of a specific Generation
				Unit that derives from the Generation Unit's production of Renewable
				Generation.
Renewable Generation Unit
. A
				Generation Unit that uses an Eligible RPS Class I Renewable Fuel, Hydroelectric
				Energy, waste-to-energy that is a component of conventional municipal solid
				waste plant technology in commercial use, or any of the fuels, energy resources
				or technologies set forth in
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				CMR 14.05(1)(a).
Retail Electricity Product
. An
				electrical energy offering that is distinguished by its Generation Attributes
				and that is offered for sale by a Retail Electricity Supplier to End-use
				Customers.
Retail Electricity Supplier
. A person
				or entity that sells electrical energy to End-use Customers in Massachusetts,
				including but not limited to Distribution Companies supplying basic service or
				any successor service to End-use Customers. A Municipal Lighting Plant shall be
				considered a Retail Electricity Supplier; however, it shall be exempt from the
				obligations of a Retail Electricity Supplier under
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				14.00 so long as and insofar as it is exempt from the
				requirements to allow competitive choice of generation supply pursuant to
				M.G.L. c. 164, § 47A.
RPS Class I Renewable Generation
. The
				electrical energy output excluding any electrical energy utilized for parasitic
				load of a RPS Class I Renewable Generation Unit, or that portion of the
				electrical energy output excluding any electrical energy utilized for parasitic
				load of an RPS Class I Renewable Generation Unit that qualifies under:
(a) the Special Provisions for Incremental Generating Capacity,
				pursuant to
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				CMR 14.05(2)  issued on or
				after January 1, 2009;
(b) a Vintage Waiver, pursuant to
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				CMR 14.05(2)  issued before
				January 1, 2009;
(c) a Co-firing and Blended Fuel Waiver, pursuant to
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				CMR 14.05(3);
(d) the Special Provisions for a Generation Unit Located in a
				Control Area Adjacent to the ISO-NE Control Area, pursuant to
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				CMR 14.05(5); or
(e) any other applicable provision of
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RPS Class I Renewable Generation
				Attribute
. The Generation Attribute of the electrical energy
				output of a specific RPS Class I Renewable Generation Unit that derives from
				the Generation Unit's production of RPS Class I Renewable Generation.
RPS Class I Renewable Generation Unit
.
				A Generation Unit or Aggregation that has received a Statement of Qualification
				from the Department, including a Generation Unit or Aggregation termed a New
				Renewable Generation Unit in a Statement of Qualification issued by the
				Department pursuant to
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				14.00 before January 1, 2009, but does not include
				Solar Carve-out Renewable Generation Units.
Solar Canopy
. A solar photovoltaic
				Generation Unit with at least 75% of the nameplate capacity of the solar
				modules used for generating power installed on top of a parking surface or
				above a pedestrian walkway, so as to maintain the parking or pedestrian
				function of the surface.
Solar Carve-out Program Capacity Cap
.
				The capacity, in MW, of Solar Carve-Out Renewable Generation Units qualified by
				the Department through June 30, 2014, and as announced on its website by the
				Department no later than July 31, 2014.
Solar Carve-out II Program Capacity
				Cap
. The aggregate eligible capacity, in MW, of Solar Carve-out II
				Renewable Generation Units qualified by the Department upon the establishment
				of a new incentive program, minus the Solar Carve-out Program Capacity
				Cap.
Solar Carve-out Renewable Generation
.
				The electrical output of a Solar Carve-out Renewable Generation Unit that
				qualifies for the Solar Carve-out under
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				CMR 14.05(4), excluding any
				electrical energy utilized for parasitic load.
Solar Carve-out II Renewable
				Generation
. The electrical output of a Solar Carve-out II
				Renewable Generation Unit that qualifies for the Solar Carve-out II under
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				CMR 14.05(9), excluding any
				electrical energy utilized for parasitic load.
Solar Carve-out Renewable Generation
				Attribute
. The Generation Attribute of the electrical energy
				output of a specific Solar Carve-out Renewable Generation Unit that derives
				from the Generation Unit's production of Solar Carve-out Renewable
				Generation.
Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation
				Attribute
. The Generation Attribute of the electrical energy
				output of a specific Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation Unit that derives
				from the Generation Unit's production of Solar Carve-out II Renewable
				Generation.
Solar Carve-out Renewable Generation
				Unit
. A Generation Unit or Aggregation that has received a
				Statement of Qualification from the Department that specifies its qualification
				for participation in the Solar Carve-out under
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				CMR 14.05(4).
Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation
				Unit
. A Generation Unit or Aggregation that has received a
				Statement of Qualification from the Department that specifies its qualification
				for participation in the Solar Carve-out II under
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				CMR 14.05(9).
Solar Renewable Energy Certificate II (SREC
				II)
. A GIS Certificate that represents the RPS Class I Renewable
				Generation Attributes and Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation Attributes of
				the Renewable Generation from a Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation
				Unit.
Statement of Qualification
. A written
				document from the Department that qualifies a Generation Unit or Aggregation as
				an RPS Class I Qualified Generation Unit, a Solar Carve-out Renewable
				Generation Unit, or a Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation Unit, or that
				qualifies a portion of the annual electrical energy output of a Generation Unit
				or Aggregation as RPS Class I Renewable Generation Solar Carve-out Renewable
				Generation, or Solar Carve-out II Renewable Generation.
Sustainable Forestry Management
.
				Practicing a land stewardship ethic that integrates the reforestation,
				managing, growing, nurturing, and harvesting of trees for useful products with
				the conservation of soil, air and water quality, wildlife and fish habitat, and
				aesthetics and the stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in a way,
				and a rate, that maintains their biodiversity, productivity, regeneration
				capacity, vitality, and potential to fulfill, now and in the future, relevant
				ecological, economic, and social functions at local, national, and global
				levels, and that does not cause damage to other ecosystems. Criteria for
				sustainable forestry include:
(a) conservation of biological diversity;
(b) maintenance of productive capacity of forest
				ecosystems;
(c) maintenance of forest ecosystem health and vitality;
(d) conservation and maintenance of soil and water
				resources;
(e) maintenance of forest contributions to global carbon
				cycles;
(f) maintenance and enhancement of long-term multiple
				socioeconomic benefits to meet the needs of societies; and
(g) a legal, institutional, and economic framework for forest
				conservation and sustainable management.
Useful Thermal Energy
. Energy in the
				form of direct heat, steam, hot water, or other thermal form that is used in
				production and beneficial measures for heating, cooling, humidity control,
				process use, or other valid thermal end use energy requirements, for which fuel
				or electricity would otherwise be consumed. Thermal energy used to produce a
				dried or refined biomass fuel shall not be considered Useful Thermal Energy if
				the biomass fuel produced is used to fuel the Generation Unit that dried or
				refined the biomass fuel.
Valid Air Permit
. Within the United
				States, a current and effective authorization, license, certificate, or like
				approval to construct and/or operate a source of air pollution, issued or
				required by the regulatory agency designated in the applicable State
				Implementation Plan to issue permits under the Clean Air Act,
				42 U.S.C. §
									7401,
et seq
. In
				jurisdictions outside of the United States, it shall be a document
				demonstrating an equivalent authorization.
Vintage Generation
. The electrical
				energy output of a Vintage Generation Unit during the period of the Generation
				Unit's Historical Generation Rate.
Vintage Generation Unit
. A Generation
				Unit that meets the requirements of
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				CMR 14.05(1), that has a
				Commercial Operation Date of December 31, 1997, or earlier, and for which the
				Department issued a Statement of Qualification under the Vintage Waiver
				provision in
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				CMR 14.05(2)  before January
				1, 2009.