(a) “Alternative energy” means fuel sources that are other than those derived from fossil fuels.
(b) “Department” means the Department of Planning and Natural Resources.
(c) “Director” means the director of the Energy Office established under this chapter.
(d) “Electric vehicle” means any vehicle that uses solely electric motors for propulsion.
(e) “Fleet” means the number and type of transportation passenger vehicles that the Government of the Virgin Islands operates.
(f) “Hybrid vehicle” means any vehicle that combines the technologies of using an internal combustion engine with a battery-powered electric motor to gain advantages of both propulsion systems.
(g) “New development” means all new residential, commercial, and government development projects constructed after the effective date of this chapter.
(h) “Other Alternative Fuel Vehicle” means any vehicle using alternative sources of energy, such as solar, wind, hydrogen fuel cell, compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas. The term does not include vehicles powered by gasoline, petroleum, bio-diesel, or bio-ethanol.
(i) “Renewable energy” means electric energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, hydroelectric, ocean, including tidal, wave current, and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), or geothermal.
(j) “Renewable energy source” means biomass, hydro, geothermal, solar, wind, ocean thermal, wave thermal, wave action tidal action and livestock or landfill methane.
(k) “Solar energy” means radiant energy, direct, diffuse or reflected, received from the sun at wavelengths suitable for conversion into thermal, chemical, or electrical energy.
(l) “Solar energy equipment” means all equipment that provides for the collection and conversion of solar energy into usable energy for heating, cooling, generating electricity, or other applications that normally would require a conventional source of energy, such as petroleum products, natural gas, or electricity and which perform primarily with solar energy. The term with respect to other systems in which solar energy is used in a supplemental way, applies only to those components that collect convert and transfer solar energy.
(m) “Solar energy system” means a system that when installed in connection with a residential, commercial or government building transmits or uses solar energy, derived from any form of renewable energy for the purpose of providing hot water for use within such building or generating electricity.
(n) “Solar photovoltaic system” means a device that converts incident sunlight into electrical current.
(o) “Solar thermal system” means a device that traps heat from incident sunlight in order to heat water including solar thermal collectors having a rating by the Solar Rating Certification Corporation of OG-100.
(p) “Substantial modification development” means reconstruction or renovations that improve hot water systems.
(q) “Virgin Islands Energy Office” means the Virgin Islands Energy Office established under the Office of the Governor.
(r) “Government” means the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Government of the Virgin Islands, or the agencies and instrumentalities, and Governing Boards and Commissions of the Government of the Virgin Islands, and “government building” means a building owned by or under the possession of the Government of the Virgin Islands.