General Assembly Committee Bill No. 102
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 3658
*03658SB00102ET_*
Referred to Committee on Energy and Technology
Introduced by:
(ET)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 102
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 3658
*03658SB00102ET_*
Referred to Committee on Energy and Technology
Introduced by:
(ET)
AN ACT EXPANDING THE DEFINITION OF A CLASS I RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (26) of subsection (a) of section 16-1 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(26) "Class I renewable energy source" means (A) energy derived from solar power, wind power, a fuel cell, methane gas from landfills, ocean thermal power, wave or tidal power, low emission advanced renewable energy conversion technologies, waste heat recovered from a public wastewater treatment plant, a run-of-the-river hydropower facility provided such facility has a generating capacity of not more than five megawatts, does not cause an appreciable change in the river flow [,] and began operation after July 1, 2003, or a sustainable biomass facility with an average emission rate of equal to or less than .075 pounds of nitrogen oxides per million BTU of heat input for the previous calendar quarter, except that energy derived from a sustainable biomass facility with a capacity of less than five hundred kilowatts that began construction before July 1, 2003, may be considered a Class I renewable energy source, or (B) any electrical generation, including distributed generation, generated from a Class I renewable energy source;
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 16-1(a)(26)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
16-1(a)(26)
Statement of Purpose:
To include waste heat recovered from a public wastewater treatment plant in the definition of a Class I renewable energy source.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.
S.B. 102