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Resolution 9II6-13 <br />Page 3 <br />WHEREAS, City staff has added Chapter 1128 of the Mounds View Zoning Code <br />by deleting the °��,=ti.ti^� language and adding the underlined text as follows: <br />CHAPTER1128 <br />RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS <br />1128.01: PURPOSE: The purpose of this chapter is to promote safe, effective and <br />efficient use of aiternative energy sources and systems as the technoloqv becomes <br />available. The intent is also to establish standards and procedures by which the <br />installation and operation of these renewable enerpv svstems shall be qoverned within <br />the Citv• <br />1128.02: DEFINITIONS: When used in this Chapter, the followinq words and <br />phrases shall have the meaninqs ascribed to them in this Section, except where the <br />context clearly indicates a different meaninq_ <br />ACTIVE SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM: A solar enerqy system whose primarv purpose is <br />to harvest enerqy by transforminq solar enerqv into another form of enerqv or <br />transferrinq heat from a collector to another medium usinq mechanical, electrical, or <br />chemical means. <br />BUILDING-INTEGRATED SOLAR SYSTEM: An active solar svstem that is an inteqral <br />part of a principal or accessorv buildinq, rather than a separate mechanical device, <br />replacinq or substitutinq for an architectural or structural component of the buildinq. <br />Buildinp-inteqrated svstems include, but are not limited to, qhotovoltaic or hot water <br />solar systems that are contained within roofinq materials windows skvliqhts and <br />awninqs. <br />CLOSED LOOP GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMP SYSTEM: A svstem that circulates <br />a heat transfer fluid, typicaliv food-qrade antifreeze, throuqh pipes or coils buried <br />beneath the land surface or anchored to the bottom in a bodv of water. <br />FEEDER LINE: Anv power line that carries electrical power from one or more wind <br />turbines or individual transformers associated with an individual wind turbine to the point <br />of interconnection with the electric power qrid. In the case of interconnection with the <br />hiqh voltaqe transmission systems the point of interconnection shall be the substation <br />servinp the WECS. <br />