First Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 13-0006.01 Chuck Brackney x2295 SENATE BILL 13-063
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Grantham, Tochtrop
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Navarro, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the renewable energy standard's definition of
            recycled energy.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Currently, recycled energy is a type of eligible energy resource that
       may be used to meet renewable energy standards. The bill adds to the
       definition of "recycled energy" the energy that is produced by a
       generation unit with a nameplate capacity of not more than 15 megawatts
       that combusts gas generated from synthetic gas derived from waste
       materials through pyrolysis as the fuel source for generation.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 40-2-124, amend (1)
       introductory portion, (1) (a) introductory portion, and (1) (a) (III) as
       follows:
            40-2-124.  Renewable energy standard - definitions - net
       metering - legislative declaration. (1)  Each provider of retail electric
       service in the state of Colorado, other than municipally owned utilities
       that serve forty thousand customers or fewer, shall be considered is a
       qualifying retail utility. Each qualifying retail utility, with the exception
       of except cooperative electric associations that have voted to exempt
       themselves from commission jurisdiction pursuant to section 40-9.5-104
       and municipally owned utilities, shall be is subject to the rules established
       under this article by the commission. No additional regulatory authority
       of the commission other than that specifically contained in this section is
       provided or implied. In accordance with article 4 of title 24, C.R.S., the
       commission shall revise or clarify existing rules to establish the
       following:
            (a)  Definitions of eligible energy resources that can be used to
       meet the standards. "Eligible energy resources" means recycled energy
       and renewable energy resources. The commission shall determine,
       following an evidentiary hearing, the extent to which such electric
       generation technologies utilized in an optional pricing program may be
       used to comply with this standard. A fuel cell using hydrogen derived
       from an eligible energy resource is also an eligible electric generation
       technology. Fossil and nuclear fuels and their derivatives are not eligible
       energy resources. For purposes of this section:
            (III)  "Recycled energy" means energy produced by a generation
       unit with a nameplate capacity of not more than fifteen megawatts that
       either converts the otherwise lost energy from the heat from exhaust
       stacks or pipes to electricity and that does not combust additional fossil
       fuel or combusts synthetic gas derived from waste materials
       through pyrolysis as the fuel source for generation. "Recycled
       energy" does not include energy produced by any system that uses energy,
       lost or otherwise, from a process whose primary purpose is the generation
       of electricity, including, without limitation, any process involving
       engine-driven generation or pumped hydroelectricity generation.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       7, 2013, if adjournment sine die is on May 8, 2013); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2012 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.