34Eligible renewable energy sources—Act, s 69

34  Eligible renewable energy sources—Act, s 69

Note 1: Paragraph 69(2)(c) of the Act provides that biomass from a native forest is not an eligible renewable energy source.

Note 2: For subsection 69(1) of the Act, the definitions of ocean, tide, wave and wind: section 8 of the Act applies to extend the application of the Act to sources generating in the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf.

 (1) For the purposes of section 69 of the Act:

agricultural waste means putrescible biomass waste produced during an agricultural operation.

biomass means organic matter other than fossilised biomass.

Examples of fossilised biomass: Coal, lignite.

biomass-based components of municipal solid waste:

 (a) means a biomass-based component of waste that is directly sourced from, or eligible to be disposed of in, landfill; but

 (b) does not include a biomass-based component of waste:

 (i) from forestry; or

 (ii) from broadacre land clearing for agriculture, silviculture and horticulture operations; or

 (iii) derived from fossil fuel.

black liquor means the mixture resulting from the chemical wood pulping process.

energy crops other than biomass from a native forest: a biomass from a plantation is not an energy crop unless:

 (a) the biomass is a product of a crop harvesting operation; and

 (b) the land on which the plantation is located was not cleared of native vegetation after 31 December 1989 to establish the plantation; and

 (c) the plantation is managed in accordance with:

 (i) a code of practice approved under the Export Control (Wood and Woodchips) Rules 2021; or

 (ii) if a code of practice has not been approved under the rules mentioned in subparagraph (i):

 (A) Australian Standard AS 4708—The Australian Forestry Standard, as in force from time to time; and

 (B) Australian Standard AS 4707—Chain of Custody for Forest Products, as in force from time to time.

fossil fuels means any of the following:

 (a) coal, oil, natural gas or other petroleum-based products;

 (b) products, by-products and wastes associated with, or produced from, extracting and processing coal, oil, natural gas or other petroleum-based products.

Examples: Condensate liquids, coal seam methane, coal mine methane.

hot dry rock includes hot fractured rock.

landfill gas means gas produced by the decomposition of organic matter in a landfill.

materials or waste products derived from fossil fuels means any materials, or components of waste streams that: