Sec. 3. Definitions
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The term combined heat and power system or CHP system means generation of electric energy and heat in a single, integrated system that meets the efficiency criteria in clauses
(ii)and
(iii)of section 48(c)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, under which heat that is conventionally rejected is recovered and used to meet thermal energy requirements. The term district energy system means a system that provides thermal energy to buildings and other energy consumers from 1 or more plants to individual buildings to provide space heating, air conditioning, domestic hot water, industrial process energy, and other end uses. The term Loan Guarantee Program means the Local Energy Infrastructure Loan Guarantee Program established under section 5. The term local energy infrastructure means a system that— recovers or produces useful thermal or electric energy from waste energy or renewable energy resources; generates electricity using a combined heat and power system; distributes electricity in microgrids; stores thermal energy; or distributes thermal energy or transfers thermal energy to building heating and cooling systems via a district energy system. The term microgrid means a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources within clearly defined electrical boundaries that— acts as a single controllable entity with respect to the grid; and can connect and disconnect from the grid to enable the microgrid to operate in both grid-connected or island-mode. The term renewable energy resource means— closed-loop and open-loop biomass (as defined in paragraphs
(2)and (3), respectively, of section 45(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986); gaseous or liquid fuels produced from the materials described in subparagraph (A); geothermal energy (as defined in section 45(c)(4) of such Code); municipal solid waste (as defined in section 45(c)(6) of such Code); or solar energy (which is used, undefined, in section 45 of such Code). The term renewable thermal energy means— heating or cooling energy derived from a renewable energy resource; natural sources of cooling such as cold lake or ocean water; or other renewable thermal energy sources, as determined by the Secretary. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy. The term thermal energy means— heating energy in the form of hot water or steam that is used to provide space heating, domestic hot water, or process heat; or cooling energy in the form of chilled water, ice or other media that is used to provide air conditioning, or process cooling. The term waste energy means energy that— is contained in— exhaust gases, exhaust steam, condenser water, jacket cooling heat, or lubricating oil in power generation systems; exhaust heat, hot liquids, or flared gas from any industrial process; waste gas or industrial tail gas that would otherwise be flared, incinerated, or vented; a pressure drop in any gas, excluding any pressure drop to a condenser that subsequently vents the resulting heat; condenser water from chilled water or refrigeration plants; or any other form of waste energy, as determined by the Secretary; and in the case of an existing facility, is not being used; or in the case of a new facility, is not conventionally used in comparable systems.