Bill Text: NC S279 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Clarify Renewable Energy Resource Definition
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-23 - Ref To Com On Environment [S279 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-S279-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
S 1
SENATE BILL 279
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Short Title: Clarify Renewable Energy Resource Definition. |
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Sponsors: |
Senator Jenkins. |
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Referred to: |
Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources. |
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March 10, 2011
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the definition of "renewable energy resource" that pertains to the renewable energy and energy efficiency portfolio standard (REPS) to clarify that wood is a renewable energy resource and that wood need not be a waste product to qualify as a renewable energy resource.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 62‑133.8(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) Definitions. – As used in this section:
(1) "Combined heat and power system" means a system that uses waste heat to produce electricity or useful, measurable thermal or mechanical energy at a retail electric customer's facility.
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(8) "Renewable energy resource" means a solar
electric, solar thermal, wind, hydropower, geothermal, or ocean current or wave
energy resource; a biomass resource, including agricultural waste, animal
waste, wood waste,wood, spent pulping liquors, combustible
residues, combustible liquids, combustible gases, energy crops, or landfill
methane; waste 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. "Renewable
energy resource" does not include peat, a fossil fuel, or nuclear energy
resource."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
