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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>87145</law_id><section_number>45.2-2000</section_number><catch_line> Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>56-265.1</reference><reference>56-576</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="45.2">Mines, Minerals, and Energy</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="V">Other Sources of Energy; Energy Policy</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="20">Geothermal Energy</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x201D; means the State Water Control <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Correlative right</span>&#x201D; means the right of each geothermal owner in a <span class="dictionary">geothermal system</span> to produce without waste his just and <span class="dictionary">equitable</span> share of the <span class="dictionary">geothermal resources</span> in the <span class="dictionary">geothermal system</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Geothermal energy</span>&#x201D; means the usable energy that is produced or that can be produced from a <span class="dictionary">geothermal resource</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Geothermal resource</span>&#x201D; means the natural heat of the earth and the energy, in whatever form, that is present in, associated with, or created by, or that may be extracted from, such natural heat, as determined by the regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Geothermal system</span>&#x201D; means any aquifer, pool, reservoir, or other geologic formation containing <span class="dictionary">geothermal resources</span>.</p></section></text><history>1981, c. 506, &#xA7; 45.1-179.2; 1984, c. 590; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 387.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
