As used in this chapter:
(a) "Anemometer" means a temporary wind speed indicator constructed designed to analyze the potential for utilizing a wind energy system at a given site. This includes the tower, base plate, anchors, cables and hardware, wind direction vanes, booms to hold equipment, data logger, instrument wiring, and any telemetry devices that are used to monitor or transmit wind speed and wind flow characteristics over a period of time for either instantaneous wind information or to characterize the wind resource at a given location.
(b) "Fall zone" the potential fall area for a tower-mounted wind energy system. It is measured by using 110 percent of the total height as the radius around the center point of the base of the tower.
(c) "Net metering" means the process by which surplus energy generated by a customer, as measured by the difference between the electricity supplied by an electric service provider and the electricity generated by a customer in an applicable billing period, is fed back to the electric service provider with customer compensation.
(d) "Power grid" means the transmission system created to balance the supply and demand of electricity for consumers in Ohio.
(e) "Shadow flicker" occurs when the blades of the turbine rotor cast shadows that move across the ground and nearby structures.
(f) "Structure-mounted wind energy system" means a wind energy system mounted on a structure, roof, walls, or other elevated surface that includes any base, blade, foundation, generator, nacelle, rotor, tower, transformer, vane, wire, inverter, batteries, or other components used in a wind energy system. A structure mounted wind energy system shall project no more than fifteen feet above the highest point of the roof excluding chimneys, antennae, and other similar protuberances.
(g) "Total height" is the vertical distance measured from the ground level at the base of the tower to the uppermost vertical extension of any blade, or the maximum height reached by any part of the wind energy system.
(h) "Tower" means the monopole or guyed monopole constructed to support a wind energy system.
(i) "Tower height" means the height above grade of the fixed portion of the tower, excluding the wind energy system.
(j) "Tower mounted wind energy system" is a wind energy system mounted on a tower that includes any base, blade, foundation, generator, nacelle, rotor, tower, transformer, vane, wire, inverter, batteries, or other components used in the system.
(k) "Wind energy system" is a system that converts the kinetic energy of the wind into electricity available for use beyond that used by the system.
(Ord. 2014-27. Passed 8-5-14.)