{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-476a.1","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 476A.1","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n1. “Agency” means an agency as defined in section 17A.2, subsection 1.\n2. “Certificate” means a certificate of public convenience, use and necessity issued pursuant to section 476A.6.\n3. “Commence to construct” means significant alteration of a site to install permanent equipment or structures but does not include activities incident to preliminary engineering, environmental studies or acquisition of a site for a facility.\n4. “Commission” means the utilities commission.\n5. “Facility” means any electric power generating plant, electric storage unit, or a combination of plants or units at a single site, owned by any person, with a total capacity of twenty-five or more megawatts of electricity for plants or twenty-five or more megawatt hours of electricity for electric storage units, and those associated transmission lines connecting the generating plant or electric storage unit to either a power transmission system or an interconnected primary transmission system or both. Transmission lines subject to the provisions of this subchapter shall not require a franchise under chapter 478.\n6. “Regulatory agency” means an agency which issues licenses or permits required for the construction, operation or maintenance of a facility pursuant to statutes or rules in effect on the date on which an application for a certificate is accepted by the utilities commission.","path":["Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES (Ch. 455 - 485)","Chapter 476A - ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION","Subchapter I - ELECTRIC POWER GENERATING FACILITIES"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/476A.1.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:12Z","sha256":"9d277b7ce9464d0759f74c6eb39a5880984e8f600f5a8f8f57d1330438a3786f","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-476.104","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-476a.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}