Bill Text: MN SF2813 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Hydroelectric generation capacity limitation elimination
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-19 - Referred to Environment and Energy [SF2813 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-SF2813-Introduced.html
1.2relating to energy; renewables; eliminating a capacity limitation on hydroelectric
1.3generation;amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 216B.1691, subdivision 1.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 216B.1691, subdivision 1, is amended to
1.6read:
1.7 Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) Unless otherwise specified in law, "eligible energy
1.8technology" means an energy technology that generates electricity from the following
1.9renewable energy sources:
1.10(1) solar;
1.11(2) wind;
1.12(3) hydroelectricwith a capacity of less than 100 megawatts;
1.13(4) hydrogen, provided that after January 1, 2010, the hydrogen must be generated
1.14from the resources listed in this paragraph; or
1.15(5) biomass, which includes, without limitation, landfill gas; an anaerobic digester
1.16system; the predominantly organic components of wastewater effluent, sludge, or related
1.17by-products from publicly owned treatment works, but not including incineration of
1.18wastewater sludge to produce electricity; and an energy recovery facility used to capture
1.19the heat value of mixed municipal solid waste or refuse-derived fuel from mixed municipal
1.20solid waste as a primary fuel.
1.21 (b) "Electric utility" means a public utility providing electric service, a generation
1.22and transmission cooperative electric association, a municipal power agency, or a power
1.23district.
2.1 (c) "Total retail electric sales" means the kilowatt-hours of electricity sold in a year
2.2by an electric utility to retail customers of the electric utility or to a distribution utility
2.3for distribution to the retail customers of the distribution utility. "Total retail electric
2.4sales" does not include the sale of hydroelectricity supplied by a federal power marketing
2.5administration or other federal agency, regardless of whether the sales are directly to a
2.6distribution utility or are made to a generation and transmission utility and pooled for
2.7further allocation to a distribution utility.
1.3generation;amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 216B.1691, subdivision 1.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 216B.1691, subdivision 1, is amended to
1.6read:
1.7 Subdivision 1. Definitions. (a) Unless otherwise specified in law, "eligible energy
1.8technology" means an energy technology that generates electricity from the following
1.9renewable energy sources:
1.10(1) solar;
1.11(2) wind;
1.12(3) hydroelectric
1.13(4) hydrogen, provided that after January 1, 2010, the hydrogen must be generated
1.14from the resources listed in this paragraph; or
1.15(5) biomass, which includes, without limitation, landfill gas; an anaerobic digester
1.16system; the predominantly organic components of wastewater effluent, sludge, or related
1.17by-products from publicly owned treatment works, but not including incineration of
1.18wastewater sludge to produce electricity; and an energy recovery facility used to capture
1.19the heat value of mixed municipal solid waste or refuse-derived fuel from mixed municipal
1.20solid waste as a primary fuel.
1.21 (b) "Electric utility" means a public utility providing electric service, a generation
1.22and transmission cooperative electric association, a municipal power agency, or a power
1.23district.
2.1 (c) "Total retail electric sales" means the kilowatt-hours of electricity sold in a year
2.2by an electric utility to retail customers of the electric utility or to a distribution utility
2.3for distribution to the retail customers of the distribution utility. "Total retail electric
2.4sales" does not include the sale of hydroelectricity supplied by a federal power marketing
2.5administration or other federal agency, regardless of whether the sales are directly to a
2.6distribution utility or are made to a generation and transmission utility and pooled for
2.7further allocation to a distribution utility.
