N.Y. Energy Law § 1-103: Definitions

§ 1-103. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless a different

meaning clearly appears from the context or unless a different meaning

is stated in a definition applicable to only a portion of this chapter:

1. "Agency" shall mean any state department, agency, board, public

benefit corporation, public authority or commission.

2. "Office" as used in sections 5-108, 5-111, 5-113, and 5-117 of

article five and articles six, seven, eight and ten of this chapter

shall mean the New York state energy research and development authority

established pursuant to article eight of the public authorities law.

3. "Coal" shall include bituminuous coal, anthracite coal, and

lignite.

4. "Commissioner" as used in sections 5-108, 5-111, 5-113, and 5-117

of article five and articles six, seven, eight and ten of this chapter

shall mean the president of the New York state energy research and

development authority.

5. "Energy" means work or heat that is, or may be, produced from any

fuel or source whatsoever.

6. "Energy resources" shall mean any force or material which yields or

has the potential to yield energy, including but not limited to

electrical, fossil, geothermal, wind, hydro, solid waste, tidal, wood,

solar and nuclear sources.

7. "Fossil fuel" shall mean coal, petroleum products and fuel gases.

8. "Fuel gases" shall include but not be limited to methane, natural

gas, liquefied natural gas, and manufactured fuel gases.

9. "Municipality" or "municipal corporation" shall mean a city,

county, town, village, school district, special purpose district, or an

agency thereof.

10. "Person" shall mean any individual, trustee, agency, partnership,

association, corporation, company, municipality, political subdivision

or other legal entity.

11. "Petroleum products" shall include all products refined or

rerefined from synthetic or crude oil or oil extracted from other

sources, including natural gas liquids.

12. "Renewable energy resources" shall include sources which are

capable of being continuously restored by natural or other means or are

so large as to be useable for centuries without significant depletion

and include but are not limited to solar, wind, plant and forest

products, wastes, tidal, hydro, geothermal, deuterium, and hydrogen.

13. "Telecommuting" shall mean the conservation of energy through the

reduction of travel by employees of the office to and from their

designated workplace through the use of telecommunication and computer

technology in tasks including, but not limited to, information transfer

and processing.

14. "Critical energy infrastructure" means systems, including

industrial control systems, assets, places or things, whether physical

or virtual, so vital to the state that the disruption, incapacitation or

destruction of such systems, including industrial control systems,

assets, places or things could jeopardize the health, safety, welfare,

energy distribution, transmission, reliability, or security of the

state, its residents or its economy.

15. "Industrial control systems" means an information system used to

monitor and/or control industrial processes, including supervisory

control and data acquisition systems used to monitor and/or control

geographically dispersed assets, distributed control systems,

human-machine interfaces, and programmable logic controllers that

control localized processes.