As used in the Oklahoma Solar Energy Development Act:
- 1. "Commencement of construction" means the date on which the owner or developer of a solar energy facility installs a post or posts into the ground for panel or inverter foundations. The term shall not include environmental assessments, surveys, preliminary engineering, site preparation, or other activities associated with assessment of development of the solar resources on a given parcel of property;
- 2. "Facility" means a solar energy facility;
- 3. "Owner" means the entity having a majority equity interest in a solar energy facility, including its respective successors and assigns;
- 4. "Racking system" means the permanent structural framework, including foundations, piles, mounts, or tracking equipment that is designed to support, anchor, and orient photovoltaic modules or related solar-energy-producing equipment at a solar energy facility and that is integral to the facility's ability to generate electricity;
- 5. "Solar energy facility" means an electric-generating facility using photovoltaic or solar-thermal technologies with a nameplate capacity greater than one (1) megawatt alternating current (AC), designed to deliver energy to the electric grid and not primarily to on-site load, unless otherwise specified by state law; and
- 6. "Working interest" means the interest in a well or the interest in a unit created by order of the Corporation Commission that entitles the oil and gas lessee, or the lessee’s successor or assign, to drill for and produce oil and gas.
Laws 2026, HB 3464, c. 155, § 12, emerg. eff. July 1, 2026.