CCS Carveouts in State RPSs

MCLI Recommendation: “States could expand their RPS laws to become clean energy standards, mandating not just the purchase of renewable energy, but also energy produced by coal-fired and natural gas combined-cycle (NGCC) plants that are equipped to capture CO2.”

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Example States and State Governments

Michigan RPS Advanced Cleaner Energy Sources

Comp. Laws §460.1047(7)(b)(iii) names plants that capture and sequester 85% or more of carbon emissions as eligible “advanced cleaner energy sources.” Advanced cleaner energy credits can be used to me...

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Ohio’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard

Ohio Rev. Code §4928.01(34)(c) names plants using “clean coal technology that includes the design capability to control or prevent the emission of carbon dioxide” as eligible alternative energy source...

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Illinois RPS Clean Coal Carveout

20 Ill. Comp. Stat. 3855/1-75(d)(1) requires electric utilities to procure at least 5% of their total energy supply from “clean coal” facilities. 20 Ill. Comp. Stat. 3855/1-10 defines clean coal facil...

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Indiana’s RPS-eligible clean power sources

Code §8-1-37-4(17) defines RPS-eligible clean power sources as including those described in § 8-1-8.8-2, which includes “advanced technologies that reduce regulated air emissions from or increase the ...

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Massachusetts Original Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard

Massachusetts’ 2008 Green Communities Act originally named gasification facilities with carbon captures technologies as one of five eligible alternative energy sources under the state’s Alternative En...

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Utah’s Energy Resource Procurement Act

Utah Code Ann. §54-17-602(1)(a) provides that 20% of Utah’s adjusted electricity sales should be from qualifying electricity or renewable energy certificates by 2025. Utah Code Ann. §54-17-601 defines...