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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1002
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5222
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT CONCERNING PH OSPHATE BYWASTES FROM ANAERO BIC
DIGESTERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 16a-3h of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
On or after October 1, 2013, the Commissioner of Energy and 3
Environmental Protection, in consultation with the procurement 4
manager identified in subsection (l) of section 16-2, the Office of 5
Consumer Counsel and the Attorney General, may solicit proposals, in 6
one solicitation or multiple solicitations, from providers of the 7
following resources or any combination of the following resources: 8
Run-of-the-river hydropower, landfill methane gas, biomass, fuel cell, 9
offshore wind or anaerobic digestion, provided such source meets the 10
definition of a Class I renewable energy source pursuant to section 16-11
1, or energy storage systems. In making any selection of such 12
proposals, the commissioner shall consider factors, including, but not 13
limited to (1) whether the proposal is in the interest of ratepayers, 14
including, but not limited to, the delivered price of such sources, (2) 15 Raised Bill No. 1002
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the emissions profile of a relevant facility, (3) any investments made by 16
a relevant facility to improve the emissions profile of such facility, (4) 17
the length of time a relevant facility has received renewable energy 18
credits, (5) any positive impacts on the state's economic development, 19
(6) whether the proposal is consistent with requirements to reduce 20
greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with section 22a-200a, 21
including, but not limited to, the development of combined heat and 22
power systems, (7) whether the proposal is consistent with the policy 23
goals outlined in the Comprehensive Energy Strategy adopted 24
pursuant to section 16a-3d, (8) whether the proposal promotes electric 25
distribution system reliability and other electric distribution system 26
benefits, including, but not limited to, microgrids, (9) whether the 27
proposal promotes the policy goals outlined in the state-wide solid 28
waste management plan developed pursuant to section 22a-241a, [and] 29
(10) the positive reuse of sites with limited development opportunities, 30
including, but not limited to, brownfields or landfills, as identified by 31
the commissioner in any solicitation issued pursuant to this section, 32
and (11) for solicitations involving such anaerobic digestion, whether 33
technology employed by the owner or operator of such digester 34
enables the conversion of bywastes that contain concentrated levels of 35
phosphates into a commercial end product for agricultural use in this 36
or another state. The commissioner may select proposals from such 37
resources to meet up to six per cent of the load distributed by the 38
state's electric distribution companies, provided the commissioner 39
shall not select proposals for more than three per cent of the load 40
distributed by the state's electric distribution companies from offshore 41
wind resources. The commissioner may direct the electric distribution 42
companies to enter into power purchase agreements for energy, 43
capacity and environmental attributes, or any combination thereof, for 44
periods of not more than twenty years on behalf of all customers of the 45
state's electric distribution companies. Certificates issued by the New 46
England Power Pool Generation Information System for any Class I 47
renewable energy sources procured under this section may be: (A) 48
Sold in the New England Power Pool Generation Information System 49
renewable energy credit market to be used by any electric supplier or 50 Raised Bill No. 1002
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electric distribution company to meet the requirements of section 16-51
245a, provided the revenues from such sale are credited to all 52
customers of the contracting electric distribution company; or (B) 53
retained by the electric distribution company to meet the requirements 54
of section 16-245a. In considering whether to sell or retain such 55
certificates, the company shall select the option that is in the best 56
interest of such company's ratepayers. Any such agreement shall be 57
subject to review and approval by the Public Utilities Regulatory 58
Authority, which review shall be completed not later than sixty days 59
after the date on which such agreement is filed with the authority. The 60
net costs of any such agreement, including costs incurred by the 61
electric distribution companies under the agreement and reasonable 62
costs incurred by the electric distribution companies in connection 63
with the agreement, shall be recovered through a fully reconciling 64
component of electric rates for all customers of electric distribution 65
companies. All reasonable costs incurred by the Department of Energy 66
and Environmental Protection associated with the commissioner's 67
solicitation and review of proposals pursuant to this section shall be 68
recoverable through the nonbypassable federally mandated congestion 69
charges, as defined in section 16-1. 70
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 16a-3h
Statement of Purpose:
To provide incentive for the use of technology by operators of
anaerobic digesters that enables the conversion of phosphate rich
bywastes into a useful commercial product.
[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.]