READ FIRST TIME 02/08/06.   

     AN ACT Relating to new renewable energy standards; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   (1) Except as provided under subsection (2) of this section, the state agency with the largest electricity load in its service territory must, at the request of the generator to the agency in writing, purchase all available anaerobic digester power from their local utility to the extent that it does not exceed the agency's local annual electricity consumption. State agencies shall pay for anaerobic digester power at a rate no less than the retail price of a qualified alternative energy product that their local utility charges its customers under RCW 19.29A.090.
     (2) State agencies are not required to purchase all available anaerobic digester power from their local utility if their utility is exempt from offering a qualified alternative energy product.
     (3) To the extent that a utility purchases power from an anaerobic digestion power producer in its service territory, the utility must pay the anaerobic digestion power producer for electricity produced at a rate no less than the retail price the utility charges its customers for a qualified alternative energy product under RCW 19.29A.090 minus administrative costs.