Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 84 — Department of Energy
§ 7372. “Secretary” and “renewable energy resource” defined
Statutory text
For purposes of this subchapter—
the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Energy; and
the term “renewable energy resource” means any energy resource which has recently originated in the sun, including direct and indirect solar radiation and intermediate solar energy forms such as wind, ocean thermal gradients, ocean currents and waves, hydropower, photovoltaic energy, products of photosynthetic processes, organic wastes, and others.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Energy Security Act
Pub. L. 96–294 title IV § 403 · 94 Stat. 611
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7372
(Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 403, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 716.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–294, title IV, § 403, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 716.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 403. definitions For purposes of this title— (1) the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Energy; and (2) the term “renewable energy resource” means any energy resource which has recently originated in the sun, including direct and indirect solar radiation and intermediate solar energy forms such as wind, ocean thermal gradients, ocean currents and waves, hydropower, photovoltaic energy, products of photosynthetic processes, organic wastes, and others.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title IV of Pub. L. 96–294, , 94 Stat. 715, known as the Renewable Energy Resources Act of 1980, which enacted this subchapter, amended sections 8255, 8271, and 8274 to 8276 of this title and sections 2705 and 2708 of Title 16, Conservation, and enacted a provision set out as a note under section 2701 of Title 16. For complete classification of title IV to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7371 of this title and Tables.