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Appendix D: Description of State Renewables Portfolio Standards
Appendix D: Description of State Renewables Portfolio Standards
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Sources of energy that count toward the standard include biomass, solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, fuel cells using renewable fuels, small hydroelectric, digester gas, municipal solid waste conversion, landfill gas, ocean wave, ocean thermal, and tidal current. continued
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, ocean thermal power, wave or tidal power, low-emission advanced renewable energy conversion technologies, and new run-of-the-river hydropower facilities with a maximum capacity of five megawatts. Class II sources include trash-to-energy facilities, biomass facilities not included in Class I, and certain hydropower facilities.
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Sources of energy that count toward the standard include wind, ocean tidal, ocean thermal, fuel cells powered by renewable fuels, hydroelectric facilities with a maximum capacity of 30 megawatts, sustainable biomass, anaerobic digestion, and landfill gas. Hawaii 20% 2020 On June 2, 2004, Governor Linda Lingle enacted Senate Bill 2474, which requires the state's public utilities to provide 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
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Maine 10% 2017 On September 28, 1999, Maine's Public Utilities Commission adopted a renewable portfolio standard, requiring that 30 percent of Maine's power come from renewable sources by 2000. Sources of energy that count toward the standard include fuel cells, tidal power, solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, and generators fueled by municipal solid waste in conjunction with recycling.
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The regulations require that 4 percent of the state's electricity supply come from new renewable sources by 2009. Sources that count toward the standard include solar, wind, ocean thermal, wave, tidal, fuel cells using renewable fuels, landfill gas, and low emission advanced technology biomass.
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Sources of energy that count toward the standard include wind, solar, geothermal, existing hydroelectric projects, landfill or farm based methane gas, wastewater-treatment gas, low-emission, nontoxic biomass, and fuel cells where hydrogen is produced with renewable fuels. New 16% 2025 On May 11, 2007, Governor John Lynch signed into law Hampshire House Bill 873, the Renewable Energy Act, which establishes a renewable energy portfolio standard for the state.
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Sources of energy that count toward the standard include biomass, fuel cells, geothermal, solar, waterpower, and wind. New York 24% 2013 On September 22, 2004, The New York Public Service Commission adopted a renewable portfolio standard.
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Under the law, by 2021 electric public utilities must meet 12.5 percent of retail electricity demand through renewable energy or energy efficiency measures, and electric membership corporations and municipalities that sell electric power in the state would have to meet a standard of 10 percent by 2018. Resources that can be used to meet the standard include solar energy, wind energy, hydropower, geothermal energy, ocean current or wave energy, biomass resources, and energy efficiency measures.
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Sources of energy that count towards the standard include direct solar radiation, wind, movement or the latent heat of the ocean, the heat of the earth, small hydroelectric facilities, eligible biomass, and fuel cells using renewable resources. Texas 5,880 2015 On August 1, 2005, Governor Rick Perry signed a bill increasing MW the amount of renewable generation required in the state.
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Virginia 12% 2022 On April 11, 2007, Governor Tim Kaine signed Senate Bill 1416, which established a voluntary renewable portfolio goal. The standard sets a renewable energy target of 12 percent of base year sales by 2022.
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Wisconsin 10% 2015 On March 17, 2006, Governor Jim Doyle signed Senate Bill 459, the Energy Efficiency and Renewables Act, which increased the state's previous renewable portfolio standard. The revised standard requires utilities to produce 10 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2015.
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