Section 473.1. Definitions.

  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

  1.  “Alternative and renewable energy” means energy sources including but not limited to solar, wind turbine, waste management, resource recovery, recovered energy generation, refuse-derived fuel, hydroelectric, agricultural crops or residues, hydrogen produced using renewable fuel sources, and woodburning, or relating to renewable fuel development and distribution.

  2.  “Authority” means the economic development authority created in section 15.105.

  3.  “Commission” means the environmental protection commission of the department of natural resources.

  4.  “Director” means the director of the authority or a designee.

  5.  “Energy” or “energy sources” means gasoline, fuel oil, natural gas, propane, coal, special fuels, and electricity.

  6.  “Renewable fuel” means a fuel that is all of the following:

  a.  A motor vehicle fuel that is any of the following:

  (1)  Produced from grain; starch; oilseed; vegetable, animal, or fish materials, including but not limited to fats, greases, and oil; sugar components, grasses, or potatoes; or other biomass.

  (2)  Natural gas produced from a biogas source including but not limited to a landfill, sewage waste treatment plant, animal feeding operation, or other place where decaying organic material is found.

  b.  Used to replace or reduce the quantity of fossil fuel present in a motor fuel mixture used to operate a motor vehicle.

  7.  “Supplier” means any person engaged in the business of selling, importing, storing, or generating energy sources, alternative and renewable energy, or renewable fuel in Iowa.

[C75, 77, 79, 81, §93.1]

86 Acts, ch 1245, §1817 – 1819

2008 Acts, ch 1126, §18, 19, 33

; 2009 Acts, ch 108, §26, 41

; 2011 Acts, ch 118, §45 – 47, 89

; 2012 Acts, ch 1021, §88