Bill Text: OR SB781 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to renewal portfolio standard bundled renewable energy certificates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SB781 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SB781-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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LC 3825

                         Senate Bill 781

Sponsored by Senator EDWARDS; Senator PROZANSKI, Representatives
  BARNHART, HOLVEY, HOYLE, NATHANSON (at the request of Eugene
  Water and Electric Board)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires qualifying electricity for which bundled renewable
energy certificate is issued under renewable portfolio standard
to be produced by facility under ownership of or long-term
contract with utility using certificate to comply with renewable
portfolio standard.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to renewal portfolio standard bundled renewable energy
  certificates; amending ORS 469A.135.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 469A.135 is amended to read:
  469A.135. (1) A bundled renewable energy certificate may be
used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard if:
  (a) The facility that generates the qualifying electricity for
which the certificate is issued is located in the United States
and within the geographic boundary of the Western Electricity
Coordinating Council; and
  (b) The qualifying electricity for which the certificate is
issued is { + :
  (A) Produced by an electrical generating facility that is owned
by the electric utility using the bundled certificate or
purchased under a contract of more than 12 months' duration by
the electric utility using the bundled certificate; and
  (B)  + }Delivered to the Bonneville Power Administration, to
the transmission system of an electric utility or to another
delivery point designated by an electric utility for the purpose
of subsequent delivery to the electric utility.
  (2) An unbundled renewable energy certificate may be used to
comply with a renewable portfolio standard if the facility that
generates the qualifying electricity for which the certificate is
issued is located within the geographic boundary of the Western
Electricity Coordinating Council.
  (3) Renewable energy certificates issued for any electricity
that the Bonneville Power Administration has designated as
environmentally preferred power, or has given a similar
designation for electricity generated from a renewable resource,
may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard without
regard to the location of the generating facility.
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