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Funding Resources
Funding Resources
| CT Renewable Portfolio Standard | |
|---|---|
| Type of Incentive | Environmental Regulations |
| Eligible States | CT |
| Eligible Technology | Backpressure Turbine, Boiler, Combustion Turbine, Condensing Turbine, Extracting Turbine, Fuel Cell, Microturbine, Other, Reciprocating Engine, Heat Recovery Generator, Stirling Engine |
| Eligible Fuel | # 2 Fuel Oil, # 6 Fuel Oil, Biogas, Biomass, Coal, Hydrogen, LFG, Municipal Solid Waste, Natural Gas, Other, Tire-Derived Fuel, Waste Heat Recovery |
| Eligible Project Size | All (MW) |
| Critical Information | Connecticut classifies renewables as either "Class I," "Class II," or "Class III." The RPS requires electric suppliers and distribution companies to obtain one percent of their generation from Class III resources beginning in 2007, increasing by one percent per year until leveling out at four percent in 2010 and thereafter. The total RPS requirement is 10 percent in 2008 and will rise to 27 percent in 2020 (including Class I, Class II, and Class III resources). The RPS applies to each electricity supplier and electric-distribution company that provides standard service, transitional standard offer, or supplier-of-last-resort service. Eligible Class I resources include solar, wind, new sustainable biomass, landfill gas, fuel cells (using renewable or nonrenewable fuels), 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 5 MW. Air emission limits apply to electricity generated from biomass; electricity produced by end-user distributed generation (DG) systems using Class I resources also qualifies. Eligible Class II resources include trash-to-energy facilities, biomass facilities not listed under Class I, and certain hydropower facilities. Eligible Class III resources include 1) customer-sited CHP systems installed at commercial or industrial facilities on or after January 1, 2006, 2) electricity savings from conservation and load management programs that started on or after January 1, 2006, and 3) systems that recover waste heat or pressure from commercial and industrial processes installed on or after April 1, 2007. A CHP system must meet a total efficiency level of at least 50 percent. The sum of all useful electrical energy output must comprise at least 20 percent of the technology's total usable energy output. The sum of all thermal energy products must also constitute at least 20 percent of the technology's usable energy output. Companies that fail to meet the CHP portfolio standard will be fined by the Department of Public Utility (DPUC) a charge up to $0.055/kW-hour of electricity that such company or supplier is deficient. Requirements may also be satisfied through the buying of credits in the conservation and distributed resources trading program administered by the DPUC. |
| Start Date | 1/4/2007 |
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| Minimum Efficiency (%) | 50% |
| Additional Information | Annual fuel-conversion efficiency and percentages of production will be assessed quarterly for the first year after initial certification. After this first year, the CHP system must demonstrate compliance with the efficiency requirements each quarter to qualify for RECs. Customers that install Class III resources on or after January 1, 2008, are entitled to Class III credits equal to at least one cent per kilowatt-hour (kWh). The revenue from these credits must be divided between the customer and the state Conservation and Load Management Fund in different ways depending on when the Class III resources are installed, whether the owner is residential or nonresidential, and whether the resources received state support. |
| Web Site | http://www.dpuc.state.ct.us/Electric.nsf/All?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=4.6#4.6 |
| Additional Web Site | http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/ incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=CT04R&state=CT&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=1 |
| Primary Contact | Ginger Teubner 10 Franklin Square New Britain, CT 6051 U.S.A. Ginger Teubner (ginger.teubner@po.state.ct.us) (860) 827-2630 |