Tennessee Code Title 4. State Government § 4-3-511

(A) Petroleum and natural gas storage or production capacity wherever such can be located;

(B) Coal gasification and liquefaction;

(C) Propane, butane or methane storage, shipment, handling and rapid redistribution to areas of need;

(D) An energy port authority in connection with a grouping and system interconnection of energy loading, unloading, storage and transfer facilities;

(E) Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), fluidized bed combustion and other advanced combustion and conversion facilities;

(F) Technology and related facilities for the collection, conversion and use of solar energy;

(G) Facilities designed to produce central heating, cooling, electrical energy, or process steam through the combustion of garbage or other wastes;

(H) Other energy production, storage or distribution facilities, including co-generation of power; and

(I) Technology and related facilities for the collection, conversion and use of methane gas. The office of energy programs shall cooperate with the University of Tennessee Space Institute and any other state agency studying the use of methane gas;

(A) Coal field development and utilization, both surface and subsurface;

(B) Oil deposits;

(C) Natural gas for intrastate and interstate use;

(D) Ores containing fissionable elements;

(E) Geographical characteristics;

(F) Resource recycling; or

(G) Renewable resources;