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Funding Resources
Funding Resources
| WA Renewable Portfolio Standard | |
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| Type of Incentive | Environmental Regulations |
| Eligible States | WA |
| 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 | In 2006, Washington State passed a Renewable Energy Standard (RES) by ballot initiative I-937. The RES requires electric utilities that serve more than 25,000 customers in the state to generate 15 percent of their electric load from new renewables by the year 2020. The RES starts at three percent of a utility's load for 2012 to 2015, rising to nine percent for 2016 to 2019, and 20 percent from 2020 forward. Renewably fueled DG with a capacity of not more than 5 MW is eligible under the renewable portion of the RES. DG may also be counted as double the facility's electrical output if the utility owns the facility, has contracted for the DG and associated RECs, or has contracted to purchase only the related RECs. Renewable resources include electricity produced from: water; wind; solar energy; geothermal energy; landfill gas; wave, ocean, or tidal power; gas from sewage treatment facilities; biodiesel fuel (must meet specified standards); and biomass energy based on animal waste or solid organic fuels from wood, forest, or field residues, or dedicated energy crops. Additionally, electric utilities must identify and undertake all cost-effective energy conservation. CHP systems owned and used by a retail electric customer to meet its own needs may be counted toward the conservation provision in the initiative. Although some exemptions apply, a utility's failure to meet the energy conservation or renewable energy targets will result in an $50/MWh administrative penalty (adjusted annually for inflation) paid to the state of Washington. |
| Start Date | 11/7/2006 |
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| Additional Information | By January 1, 2010, and every two years thereaf ter, each affected utility isrequired to identify its "achievable cost-effective conservation potential through 2019." Each utility must then issue an acquisition target to be met during the next two years. Utilities may count high-efficiency CHP units with a useful thermal output of at least 33 percent of the total energy output towards meeting their conservation targets. The amount of energy conservation eligible towards meeting the target will be determined base d on an analysis of the reduction in electricity consumption from the CHP system compared to a best-commercially available technology combined-cycle natural gas-fired combustion turbine. Additionally, only the output used by the customer to meet its own needs will count towards the target. |
| Web Site | http://www.cted.wa.gov/site/1001/default.aspx |
| Additional Web Site | http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/ incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=WA15R&state=WA&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=1 |
| Primary Contact | Elizabeth Klumpp Energy Policy Division 906 Columbia Street, SW Olympia, WA 98504 U.S.A. Elizabeth Klumpp (ElizabethK@cted.wa.gov) (360) 725-3113 |