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Iowa Code Title XI. Natural Resources [Chs. 455-485] § 476B.1. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

<[Text subject to final changes by the Iowa Code Editor for Code 2024.]>

For purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Board” means the utilities board.

2. “Department” means the department of revenue.

3. “Qualified electricity” means electricity produced from wind at a qualified facility.

4. “Qualified facility” means an electrical production facility that meets all of the following:

a. Produces electricity from wind.

b. Is located in Iowa.

c. Was originally placed in service on or after July 1, 2005, but before July 1, 2012.

d. (1) For applications filed on or after March 1, 2008, consists of one or more wind turbines connected to a common gathering line which have a combined nameplate capacity of no less than two megawatts and no more than thirty megawatts.

(2) For applications filed on or after July 1, 2009, by a private college or university, community college, institution under the control of the state board of regents, public or accredited nonpublic elementary and secondary school, or public hospital, for the applicant's own use of qualified electricity, consists of wind turbines with a combined nameplate capacity of three-fourths of a megawatt or greater. For the purposes of this subparagraph, “public hospital” means a hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 135B and governed pursuant to chapter 145A, 226, 347, 347A, or 392.

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