ORS 470.825: Definitions for ORS 470.825 to 470.840.

As used in ORS 470.825 to 470.840: (1) “Community renewable energy project” means one or more renewable energy systems, storage systems, microgrids or energy-related infrastructures that promote energy resilience, increase renewable energy generation or renewable energy storage capacity and provide a direct benefit to a particular community in the form of increased community energy resilience, local jobs, economic development or direct energy costs savings to families and small businesses. (2) “Community energy resilience” means the ability of a specific community to maintain the availability of energy needed to support the provision of energy-dependent critical public services to the community following nonroutine disruptions of severe impact or duration to the state’s broader energy systems. (3) “Community energy resilience project” means a community renewable energy project that includes utilizing one or more renewable energy systems to support the energy resilience of structures or facilities that are essential to the public welfare. (4) “Consumer-owned utility” means a municipal electricity utility, a people’s utility district organized under ORS chapter 261 that sells electricity or an electric cooperative organized under ORS chapter 62. (5) “Electric cooperative organized under ORS chapter 62” includes an electric cooperative organized under ORS chapter 62 that is operating in this state and formed for one or both of the following purposes: (a) To generate, purchase or obtain electric power, energy, transmission services or ancillary services; or (b) To represent one or more consumer-owned utilities in meeting rural, environmental or renewable energy requirements and mandates. (6) “Energy resilience” means the ability of energy systems, from production through delivery to end-users, to withstand and restore energy delivery rapidly following nonroutine disruptions of severe impact or duration. (7) “Planning costs” means the costs related to planning paid by an applicant, or an applicant’s partner, described under ORS 470.830. (8) “Project cost” means the actual cost of the acquisition, construction and installation of a renewable energy system incurred by an applicant, or an applicant’s partner, described under ORS 470.830 for the system, before considering utility incentives. (9) “Public body” means a public body as defined in ORS 174.109. (10) “Qualifying community” means a community that qualifies as an environmental justice community as defined in ORS 469A.400. (11) “Renewable energy system” includes: (a) A system that uses biomass, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, wind, landfill gas, biogas or wave, tidal or ocean thermal energy technology to produce energy. (b) One or more energy storage systems paired with an existing or newly constructed system described in paragraph (a) of this subsection. (c) One or more vehicle charging stations paired with an existing or newly constructed system described in paragraph (a) of this subsection. (d) Microgrid enabling technologies, including microgrid controllers and any other related technologies needed to electrically isolate a community energy resilience project from the electric grid so that the project is capable of operating independently from the electric grid. [2021 c.508 §29; 2024 c.51 §7]