Applicant: The entity or person who has submitted an application for a Special Use Permit for a solar project.
Array: Multiple solar panels designed to work together to generate more power than a single panel.
Financial Assurance: Means reasonable assurance from a credit worthy party, examples of which include surety bond, cash escrow, or irrevocable letter of credit.
Ground-Mount: A solar energy system mounted on a rack or pole that rests or is attached to the ground. Ground-mount systems can be either accessory or principal uses.
Landowner: A person/persons or entity holding title to a tract of land.
Large Solar Project: Any solar project of photovoltaic cells for converting sunlight directly into electricity with a rated capacity of 25 Kilowatt or more, or any liquid system more than seven hundred fifty (750) square feet in size.
Operator: The entity responsible for the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the solar project, including any third-party subcontractors.
Owner: The entity or entities with an equity interest in the solar project, including their successors and assigns. Owner does not mean the landowner from whom land is leased for locating the solar project, unless the property owner has an equity interest in the solar project.
Panel: A panel containing photovoltaic cells for generating electricity.
Participating Parcel: A tax parcel on which the landowner has entered into a financial or easement agreement with the Owner, Operator or Applicant of a solar project.
Primary Structure: A structure that one or more person(s) occupy the majority of the time for either business or personal reasons. Primary structure includes structures such as a residence, commercial building, hospital, and day care facility. Primary structures exclude structures such as hunting shed, storage shed, pool house, unattached garage and barn.
Professional Engineer: A qualified individual who is licensed as a professional engineer in the required area of expertise.
Roof-Mount: A solar energy system mounted on a rack that is fastened to or ballasted on a building roof. Roof-mount systems are accessory to the principal use.
Setback: The distance from the closest point of a solar project feature to a property line. Feature shall include any overhanging projections.
Small Solar Project: Any solar project with photovoltaic cells for converting sunlight directly into electricity with a rated capacity under 25 Kilowatts that is collected to the electric grid or has provisions for connection, or any off-grid system directly wired to a primary structure or accessory building, or any liquid system seven hundred fifty (750) square feet or smaller.
Solar Energy System: A system whose primary purpose is to harvest energy by transforming solar energy into another form of energy or transferring heat from a collector to another medium using mechanical, electrical, or chemical means.
Solar Project Site: All parcels of land making up a solar project.
Solar Project: All solar project features, substations and ancillary facilities, underground cable installations, and third-party transmission lines associated with the project up to the point of connection with a utility company power line or private home electrical wiring.
Substation: The apparatus that connects with the electrical collection system of the solar project and increases the voltage for connection with a utility’s transmission line or high voltage electric transmission grid.