WSR 18-19-105
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Filed September 19, 2018, 11:46 a.m., effective October 20, 2018]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: Update the average greenhouse gas emission output from new, commercially available combined cycle combustion turbines as required by RCW
80.80.040 and
80.80.050.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 194-26-010 and 194-26-020.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW
80.80.050.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 18-15-081 on July 18, 2018.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: September 19, 2018.
Brian Bonlender
Director
Chapter 194-26 WAC
AVERAGE AVAILABLE GREENHOUSE ((GAS))GASES EMISSIONS OUTPUT FOR EMISSIONS PERFORMANCE STANDARD
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 13-06-074, filed 3/6/13, effective 4/6/13)
WAC 194-26-010Authority.
This chapter is promulgated pursuant to ((
the authority granted in RCW 80.80.040, requiring the department of commerce to adopt the average available greenhouse gases emissions output as determined under RCW 80.80.050 as the greenhouse gas emissions performance standard for all baseload electric generation for which electric utilities enter into long-term financial commitments))
RCW 80.80.050, which requires the energy division of the department of commerce to survey new combined-cycle natural gas thermal electric generation turbines commercially available and offered for sale by manufacturers and purchased in the United States to determine the average rate of emissions of greenhouse gases for these turbines and adopt the average available greenhouse gases emissions output by rule every five years beginning five years after July 22, 2007.
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 13-06-074, filed 3/6/13, effective 4/6/13)
WAC 194-26-020Average available greenhouse ((gas))gases emissions output.
(1) The energy ((policy)) division of the department of commerce has surveyed new combined-cycle natural gas thermal electric generation turbines commercially available and offered for sale by manufacturers and purchased in the United States, and finds the average ((rate of emissions of))available greenhouse gases ((for these turbines))emissions output to be nine hundred ((and seventy))twenty-five pounds per megawatt-hour as of the effective date of this section.
(2) The purpose of this subsection is to provide historical values for the average available greenhouse gases emissions output established in WAC 194-26-020.
Average available greenhouse gases emissions output (lb GHG/MWh) – Historical Values | Start date | End date |
970 | 4/6/13 | Effective date of this section |