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2009 SESSION
HB 2267 Renewable energy facilities; definition.
Introduced by: Charles D. Poindexter | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Renewable energy facilities. Defines a renewable energy facility, for purposes of Title 56, as a facility that either: (i) generates thermal or electric power primarily by the use of a renewable energy resource; (ii) uses heat primarily derived from a renewable energy resource to produce electricity or useful, measurable thermal or mechanical energy at a facility of an electric utility's retail customer; (iii) is a solar thermal energy facility, or (iv) specifically allows for co-firing with non-renewable energy resources as long as non-renewable energy resources are not the primary energy source. Hydroelectric power facilities are excluded from the scope of the term. The measure also defines a renewable energy resource as a solar electric, solar thermal, wind, hydropower, geothermal, or ocean current or wave energy resource; biomass; heat derived from a renewable energy resource and used to produce electricity or useful, measurable thermal energy at a retail electric customer's facility; or hydrogen derived from a renewable energy resource. Finally, the measure defines "biomass" as organic material, including materials that are within the scope of "biomass" in the existing section establishing a streamlined environmental permitting process for qualified energy generators, and (a) organic refuse-derived fuel, (b) other industrial solid waste of an organic, non-hazardous nature; and (c) unusable reject materials from recycling operations that are primarily of a cellulosic or liguin nature.
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HISTORY
- 01/14/09 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 090070536
- 01/14/09 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/26/09 House: Assigned C & L sub: 3 Energy
- 02/04/09 House: Subcommittee recommends striking from the docket by voice vote
- 02/10/09 House: Left in Commerce and Labor