196.374(1)(a)(a) “Agricultural producer” means a person engaged in an agricultural activity, as defined in s. 101.10 (1) (a).

196.374(1)(b)(b) “Commitment to community program” means an energy efficiency or load management program by or on behalf of a municipal utility or retail electric cooperative.

196.374(1)(c)(c) “Customer application of renewable resources” means the generation of energy from renewable resources that takes place on the premises of a customer of an energy utility or municipal utility or a member of a retail electric cooperative.

196.374(1)(d)(d) “Energy efficiency program” means a program for reducing the usage or increasing the efficiency of the usage of energy by a customer or member of an energy utility, municipal utility, or retail electric cooperative. “Energy efficiency program” does not include load management.

196.374(1)(em)(em) “Large energy customer” means a customer of an energy utility that owns or operates a facility in the energy utility’s service area that has an energy demand of at least 1,000 kilowatts of electricity per month or of at least 10,000 decatherms of natural gas per month and that, in a month, is billed at least $60,000 for electric service, natural gas service, or both, for all of the facilities of the customer within the energy utility’s service territory.

196.374(1)(f)(f) “Load management program” means a program to allow an energy utility, municipal utility, wholesale electric cooperative, as defined in s. 16.957 (1) (v), retail electric cooperative, or municipal electric company, as defined in s. 66.0825 (3) (d), to control or manage daily or seasonal customer demand associated with equipment or devices used by customers or members.

196.374(1)(i)(i) “Ordered program” means an energy efficiency or renewable resource program that an energy utility commenced on or after January 1, 2001, under a commission order issued on or after January 1, 2001, and in effect before July 1, 2007.

196.374(1)(j)(j) “Renewable resource” means a resource that derives energy from any source other than coal, petroleum products, nuclear power or, except as used in a fuel cell, natural gas. “Renewable resource” includes resources deriving energy from any of the following:

196.374(1)(j)1.1. Solar energy.

196.374(1)(j)2.2. Wind power.

196.374(1)(j)3.3. Water power.

196.374(1)(j)4.4. Biomass.

196.374(1)(j)5.5. Geothermal technology.

196.374(1)(j)6.6. Tidal or wave action.

196.374(1)(j)7.7. Fuel cell technology that uses, as determined by the commission, a renewable fuel.

196.374(1)(k)(k) “Renewable resource program” means a program for encouraging the development or use of customer applications of renewable resources, including educating customers or members about renewable resources, encouraging customers or members to use renewable resources, and encouraging the transfer of new or emerging technologies from research, development, and demonstration to commercial implementation.

196.374(2)(a)1.1. The energy utilities in this state shall collectively establish and fund statewide energy efficiency and renewable resource programs. The energy utilities shall contract, on the basis of competitive bids, with one or more persons to develop and administer the programs. The utilities may not execute a contract under this subdivision unless the commission has approved the contract. The commission shall require each energy utility to spend the amount required under sub. (3) (b) 2. to fund statewide energy efficiency and renewable resource programs.

196.374(2)(a)2.2. The purpose of the programs under this paragraph shall be to help achieve environmentally sound and adequate energy supplies at reasonable cost, consistent with the commission’s responsibilities under s. 196.025 (1) (ar) and the utilities’ obligations under this chapter. The programs shall include, at a minimum, all of the following: