2006 Kansas Code - 74-618

      74-618.   Energy resource defined. As used in K.S.A. 74-616 to 74-621, inclusive, unless the context requires otherwise: "Energy resource" means any recognized substance or process which can be utilized to obtain energy, or any form of energy, and shall include but not be limited to: (a) Propane, butane, gasoline, kerosene, home heating oil, diesel fuel, other middle distillates, aviation gasoline, kerosene-type jet fuel, naphtha-type jet fuel, residual fuels, crude oil, and other petroleum products and hydrocarbons as may be determined by the state corporation commission to be of importance;

      (b)   all natural gas, including casinghead gas and all other hydrocarbons not defined as petroleum products in paragraph (1) and including liquefied petroleum gas;

      (c)   all types of coal and products derived from its conversion and used as fuel;

      (d)   all agricultural fertilizers which are manufactured or derived from hydrocarbons or other fossil materials;

      (e)   all types of nuclear energy and special nuclear material;

      (f)   all electrical energy; and

      (g)   every other energy resource, whether natural or man-made, which the the state corporation commission determines to be important to the production or supply of energy, including but not limited to, energy converted from solar radiation, wind, hydraulic potential and geothermal sources.

      History:   L. 1983, ch. 258, § 3; July 1.