DISCUSSION DRAFT 04/02/04
Advanced Energy Portfolio Standard
Providing for the sale of electric energy generated from advance energy sources, for the acquisition of this power by electric distribution and supply companies and for the powers and duties of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection; and imposing penalties.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short Title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the Advanced Energy Portfolio Standards Act.
Section 2. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this act shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
- Combustion of waste coal which was disposed or abandoned prior to July 31, 1982 or disposed thereafter in a permitted coal refuse disposal site and, regardless of when disposed, comprises at least 75 percent of the total energy input at the facility where it is used to generate electricity; or
- Such other waste coal combustion meeting alternate eligibility requirements established by regulations.
- Energy conservation measures.
- Energy efficiency measures in the generation of power.
- Carbon sequestration.
- The recovery of energy in municipal, industrial or commercial facilities for the purpose of generating distributed electric power or the economically useful production of thermal energy.
- Solar photovoltaic energy.
- Solar thermal energy.
- Wind power.
- Low-impact hydropower.
- Geothermal energy.
- Biologically derived methane gas and fugitive coal mine methane that is collected.
- Biomass energy.
- Energy from solid waste except, the term does not include solid waste, burned for the generation of electric energy.
- Fuel cells that are fueled by Tier I advanced energy resources in paragraphs (1)-(8).
- Electricity generated from eligible waste coal combustion.
- Emission offsets.
- Fuel cells that are fueled by resources other than Tier I advanced energy resources.
Section 3. Advanced energy portfolio standard.
Section 4. Effective date. This act shall take effect in 90 days.