{"data":{"id":"us-mt/69-3-601","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"69-3-601","heading":"(Temporary) Definitions.","body":"As used in this part, the following definitions apply:\n(1) \"Commission\" means the Montana public service commission.\n(2) \"Electric cooperative\" means a rural electric cooperative organized under the laws of Montana, or a foreign corporation admitted to do business in Montana.\n(3) \"Qualifying small power production facility\" means a facility that:\n(a) produces electricity by the use, as a primary energy source, of biomass, waste, water, wind, or other renewable resource, or any combination of those sources; or\n(b) produces electricity and useful forms of thermal energy, such as heat or steam, used for industrial, commercial, heating, or cooling purposes through the sequential use of energy known as cogeneration; and\n(c) has a power production capacity that together with any other facilities located at the same site is not greater than 80 megawatts; and\n(d) is owned by a person not primarily engaged in the generation or sale of electricity other than electric power from a small power production facility.\n(4) \"Utility\" means any public utility supplying electricity and regulated by the commission. (Repealed on occurrence of contingency--secs. 1, 3, Ch. 284, L. 2003--see part compiler's comment.)","path":["TITLE 69. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS","CHAPTER 3. REGULATION OF UTILITIES","Part 6. Small Power Production Facilities"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0690/chapter_0030/part_0060/section_0010/0690-0030-0060-0010.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:58:11Z","sha256":"c3024209b62b9846fe7530a6f0b75304c7381ddfb74f0a4a91e9f6d1d35b6ab1","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/69-3-507","next":"us-mt/69-3-602"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}