In this Article, the following words have the meanings indicated:
Clean energy technologies means measures addressing energy resources and emerging energy technologies, including renewable energy systems and sources, renewable energy projects, energy efficiency projects, alternative fuels used for electricity generation, alternative fuel vehicles and related infrastructure such as electric vehicle charging station infrastructure, and smart grid and battery storage.
Climate change mitigation and adaptation activities means activities that include clean energy technologies or resiliency, sustainability, or climate adaptive projects.
Energy efficiency project means an improvement made to an existing property that reduces consumption of energy.
Green Bank means the Green Bank that the County has designated to promote and support investment in climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in the County, including clean energy technologies; resiliency, sustainability, and climate adaptive projects; and other related risk reduction activities..
Maryland Open Meetings Act means the Maryland Open Meetings Act, codified at Sections 3-101 through 3-501 of the General Provisions Article of the Maryland Code.
Renewable energy project means a permanent improvement made to an existing property that creates, converts, stores, or actively uses renewable energy.
Resiliency, sustainability, or climate adaptive projects mean measures designed to support property or community resilience, reliability, and environmental sustainability; property or community environmental health and environmental safety; property or community water conservation and on-site management; sustainable waste treatment; sustainable agricultural activities; and adaption of systems to manage changes to the climate, such as activities responding to extreme weather events. (2015 L.M.C., ch. 35, § 1; 2023 L.M.C., ch. 8
, §1.)