(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated. (2) (i) "Renewable fuel" means gaseous, liquid, or solid fuel from any organic matter and its by-products. (ii) "Renewable fuel" includes fuel from: 1. an agricultural crop, agricultural waste, or agricultural residue; 2. wood, wood waste, or wood residue; 3. animal waste; 4. aquatic plants; 5. sewage or sewage sludge; 6. municipal, industrial, or commercial waste; 7. any mixture of any of these substances with inorganic refuse from a public or private municipal waste collection system or similar disposal system; or 8. any combination of items 1 through 7 of this subparagraph. (iii) "Renewable fuel" does not include fossil fuel. (3) "Transportation facility" means a transportation facility that is used exclusively to transport fuel produced by a fuel production facility to: (i) a storage facility; (ii) a pipeline connection to an existing pipeline or processing facility; or (iii) an area near the fuel production facility. (b) A project qualifies as an energy project if it consists of: (1) an energy conservation project; (2) a solar energy project; (3) the construction of a facility to produce solar energy equipment; (4) the construction of a facility or portion of a facility to: (i) produce renewable fuel; and (ii) burn renewable fuel, or a mixture of renewable fuel with other materials, to generate: 1. heat; 2. mechanical power; 3. electricity, including by cogeneration; or 4. other useful forms of energy; (5) the conversion of any facility to use renewable fuel; (6) the expansion or improvement of a facility that increases its capacity or efficiency to use renewable fuel; (7) the acquisition and improvement of equipment for use in a facility specified in items (4) through (6) of this subsection; (8) the acquisition or improvement of land for a facility specified in items (4) through (6) of this subsection; (9) the purchase, construction, or installation of a facility or equipment to use groundwater as a heat source for a heating system or as a heat sink for an air conditioning system; (10) the purchase, construction, or installation of a facility or equipment to develop and use the natural heat of the earth for direct use or to generate electricity; (11) the purchase, construction, and installation of a hydroelectric facility at an existing dam that: (i) uses the water power potential of the dam; and (ii) has no more than 30 megawatts of installed capacity; (12) the construction of a fuel production facility for commercial production of a gaseous, liquid, or solid fuel, or of a combination of them, that: (i) is produced by chemical or physical transformation of coal or mixtures of coal and other materials; (ii) can be used as a substitute for petroleum or natural gas, or any of their derivatives, including chemical feedstocks; and (iii) includes only: 1. the fuel production facility, including the equipment, plant, supplies, and other materials associated with the fuel production facility; 2. the land and mineral rights required directly for use in connection with the fuel production facility; 3. any other facility or equipment to be used in the extraction of a mineral for use directly and exclusively in the fuel production facility that is necessary to the project and is: A. colocated with or located in the immediate vicinity of the fuel production facility; or B. if not colocated or located in accordance with item A of this item: I. a coal mine in the case that no other reasonable source of coal is available to the project; or II. incidental to the project; and 4. any transportation facility, electric power plant, electric transmission line, or other facility that is: A. for the exclusive use of the project; B. incidental to the project; and C. necessary to the project; (13) the conversion of a facility from using petroleum-based fuel to coal or to a mixture of coal and other materials as a fuel; or (14) the construction of a facility to burn coal using innovative technology that increases the efficiency of the combustion process.
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