7 Del. Admin. Code § 1144-2.0
The following words and terms, when used in this regulation, shall have the following meanings:
"Biodiesel" means a renewable fuel for diesel engines derived from natural oils like soybean oil, and which meets the specifications of ASTM D 6751-03a, "Standard Specification for Biodiesel Fuel (B100) Blend Stock for Distillate Fuels," ASTM International, hereby incorporated by reference.
"Biodiesel Blend" means a blend of biodiesel and diesel fuel, designated BXX, where XX represents the volume percentage of biodiesel fuel in the blend. Pure biodiesel is designated as B100.
"Combined heat and power" or "CHP" means a generator that sequentially produces both electric power and thermal energy from a single source, where the thermal energy is wholly or partly used for either industrial processes or other heating or cooling purposes.
"Combustion turbine" means an internal combustion engine in which expanding gases from the combustion chamber drive the blades of a turbine to generate mechanical energy in the form of a rotating shaft.
"Commercial poultry producing premises" means any location in the State of Delaware where live, commercial poultry (i.e., poultry wholly owned by a corporate enterprise that controls the entire growing cycle of the birds, from the breeder flock to the processing plant) is kept.
"Department" means Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control as defined in 29 Del.C. Ch 80, as amended.
"Design system efficiency" means for CHP, the sum of the full load design thermal output and electric output divided by the heat input.
"Diesel fuel" means any fuel sold in any state or Territory of the United States and suitable for use in diesel motor vehicles, diesel motor vehicle engines, or diesel nonroad engines, and which is commonly or commercially known or sold as diesel fuel.
"Digester gas" means gas generated by the anaerobic digestion of organic wastes, which include, but are not limited to, livestock manure, industrial wastewater, or food processing waste.
"Distributed generator" means a stationary generator that may be used during an emergency, during testing, and for maintenance purposes, as well as for any other purpose at times other than during an emergency.
"Emergency" means:
. an electric power outage due to: a failure of the electrical grid; on-site disaster; local equipment failure; or public service emergencies such as flood, fire, natural disaster, or severe weather conditions (e.g., hurricane, tornado, blizzard, etc.); or
. when there is a deviation of voltage or frequency from the electrical provider to the premises of 3% or greater above, or 5% or greater below, standard voltage or frequency.
"Emergency generator" means a stationary generator used only during an emergency, during testing, and for maintenance purposes. An emergency generator may not be operated in conjunction with a voluntary demand-reduction program or any other interruptible power supply arrangement with a utility, other market participant, or system operator (e.g., Delmarva Power, Delaware Electric Cooperative, PJM, etc.).
"Existing" means a generator which is not new. An existing generator shall not be considered new if it is relocated and reinstalled on the same property, nor if it is reclassified from an emergency generator to a distributed generator or vice versa.
"Gaseous fuel" means a fuel which is neither solid nor liquid, and includes but is not limited to natural gas, propane, landfill gas, waste gas, and anaerobic digester gas.
"Generator" means an internal combustion engine, except for a combustion turbine, and associated equipment that converts primary fuel (including fossil fuels and renewable fuels) into electricity, or electricity and thermal energy. Use of the term "generator" in this regulation shall refer to any and all generators subject to the requirements of this regulation unless the type of generator being referred to is otherwise specified.
"Installation" and "install" mean:
. for generators which are not required to obtain a permit, the date upon which the emplacement of a generator is commenced; or
. for generators which are required to obtain a permit, the date upon which the owner has all necessary preconstruction approvals or permits and either has:
. begun, or caused to begin, a continuous program of actual on-site emplacement of the generator, to be completed within a reasonable time; or
. entered into binding agreements or contractual obligations, which cannot be canceled or modified without substantial loss to the owner, to undertake a program of actual emplacement of the generator to be completed within a reasonable time.
"Landfill gas" means gas generated by the decomposition of organic waste deposited in a landfill (including municipal solid waste landfills) or derived from the evolution of organic compounds in the waste.
"Maintenance" means the recurrent, periodic, or scheduled work necessary to repair, prevent damage, or sustain existing components of a generator or any ancillary equipment associated with its use.
"Mobile" means a generator powered by an internal combustion engine that is self-propelled or serves a dual purpose by both propelling itself and performing another function (such as converting primary fuel into electricity, or electricity and thermal energy); is intended to be propelled while performing its function; or that, by itself or in or on a piece of equipment, is portable or transportable, meaning designed to be and capable of being carried or moved from one location to another (i.e., a generator which is not stationary).
"New" means a generator which is installed or repowered on or after January 11, 2006.
"Owner" means the owner of, or person responsible for, a generator.
"Power to heat ratio" means, for a CHP unit, the design electrical output divided by the design recovered thermal output in consistent units.
"Prime power rating" means the maximum amount of power a generator is capable of supplying during continuous duty, as specified by the manufacturer.
"Repower" means the replacement of the internal combustion engine of a generator with another internal combustion engine.
"Standby power rating" means the amount of power a generator is capable of supplying during a power outage for the duration of the interruption, as specified by the manufacturer.
"Stationary" means a generator powered by an internal combustion engine which is not propelled or intended to be propelled while performing its function, that is used either in a fixed application, or in a portable (or transportable) application in which the engine will stay at a single location on a property (which includes the land, the buildings, and all improvements thereon) for more than 12 consecutive months (i.e., a generator which is not mobile). Any stationary generator which is moved from one location to another in a deliberate attempt to circumvent the residence time requirement of 12 consecutive months shall be deemed stationary.
"Supplier" means a person or firm that manufactures, assembles, or otherwise supplies generators.
"Testing" means determining the capability of a generator to meet the specified requirements of this regulation or determining if the generator and any ancillary equipment associated with its use are functioning correctly.
"US EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Waste gas" means manufacturing or mining byproduct gases that are not used and are otherwise flared or incinerated. A manufacturing or mining byproduct is a material that is not one of the primary products of a particular manufacturing or mining operation, is a secondary and incidental product of the particular operation, and would not be solely and separately manufactured or mined by the particular manufacturing or mining operation. The term does not include an intermediate manufacturing or mining product which results from one of the steps in a manufacturing or mining process and is typically processed through the next step of the process within a short time.
01/11/2006
7 Del. Admin. Code § 1144-2.0