§196-2  Definitions.  As used in thischapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

"Commission" means the publicutilities commission.

"Coordinator" means the energyresources coordinator.

"Distributor" means:

(1)  Every person who refines, manufactures, produces,or compounds fuel in the State and sells it at wholesale or retail, or who usesit directly in the manufacture of products or for the generation of power;

(2)  Every person who imports or causes to be importedinto the State, or exports or causes to be exported from the State, any fuel;

(3)  Every person who acquires fuel through exchangeswith another distributor; and

(4)  Every person who purchases fuel for resale atwholesale or retail rates from any person described in paragraph (1), (2), or(3).

"Electricity" means all electricalenergy produced by combustion of any fuel, or generated or produced using wind,the sun, geothermal heat, ocean water, falling water, currents, and waves, orany other source.

"Energy" means work or heat that is,or may be, produced from any fuel or source whatsoever.

"Energy resources" means fuel, andalso includes all electrical or thermal energy produced by combustion of anyfuel, or generated or produced using wind, the sun, geothermal heat, oceanwater, falling water, currents, waves, or any other source.

"Fuel" means fuels, whether liquid,solid, or gaseous, commercially usable for energy needs, power generation, andfuels manufacture, that may be manufactured, grown, produced, or imported intothe State or that may be exported therefrom, including petroleum and petroleumproducts and gases to include all fossil fuel-based gases, coal tar, vegetableferments, biomass, municipal solid waste, biofuels, hydrogen, agriculturalproducts used as fuels and as feedstock to produce fuels, and all fuelalcohols.

"Townhouse" means a series ofindividual houses, having architectural unity and a common wall between eachunit. [L 1974, c 237, §2; am L 1993, c 15, §1; am L 2009, c 153, §3]