2020 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 10 - Taxation
Chapter 35 - Taxation Of Electric, Heating, Water And Gas Companies
Section 10-35-16 - Definition of terms.

10-35-16. Definition of terms.

Terms as used in this section and §§10-35-17 to 10-35-21, inclusive, mean:

(1)"Collector system," all property used or constructed to interconnect individual wind turbines or solar panels within a renewable facility into a common project, including inverters, step-up transformers, electrical collection equipment, collector substation transformers, and communication systems;

(2)"Company," any person, corporation, limited liability company, association, company, partnership, political subdivision, rural electric cooperative, or any group or combination acting as a unit;

(3)"Nameplate capacity," the number of kilowatts a renewable facility can produce, as assigned to the power units in the renewable facility by the manufacturer and determined by the secretary;

(4)"Renewable facility," any wind farm or solar facility;

(5)"Solar facility," all real or personal property used or constructed for the purpose of producing electricity for commercial purposes utilizing solar radiation as an energy source and with a nameplate capacity of at least five thousand kilowatts. The term includes the collector system;

(6)"Transmission line," an electric transmission line and associated facilities including the collector system, with a design of one hundred fifteen kilovolts or more;

(7)"Wind farm," all real or personal property used or constructed for the purpose of producing electricity for commercial purposes utilizing the wind as an energy source and with a nameplate capacity of at least five thousand kilowatts. The term includes the collector system.

Source: SL 2008, ch 49, §1; SL 2016, ch 61, §1.