SHB 2289 -
By Representative Chandler
SCOPE AND OBJECT 03/06/2009
On page 1, line 8, after "funding" insert "to support the deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements, and development of new water supply storage facilities in the Columbia river basin"
On page 3, line 31, after "geothermal systems." insert "For purposes of this act, hydroelectric generators installed at a water supply storage facility developed under chapter 90.90 RCW shall be considered a renewable energy improvement."
On page 4, line 3, after "coproducts." insert the following:
"(18) "Water supply storage facility" means a water supply storage
facility developed under the Columbia river basin water supply program
established in chapter 90.90 RCW."
On page 6, line 8, after "(6)" insert "The director, in
consultation with the director of the department of ecology, may award
a grant or a loan to an applicant for a project to develop a water
supply storage facility under chapter 90.90 RCW.
(7)"
Renumber the remaining subsections consecutively and correct any internal references accordingly.
On page 6, line 20, after "industry" insert ", or new water supply storage facilities"
On page 8, line 8, after "section." insert the following:
"(c) Repayments of principal and interest from loans made to water
supply storage facility projects as defined in RCW 43.325.010 must be
used only for financial assistance to further funding of projects
defined under RCW 43.325.010."
On page 9, line 23, after "immediately." insert the following:
"Sec. 9 RCW 19.285.030 and 2007 c 1 s 3 (Initiative Measure No.
937) are each amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter
unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Attorney general" means the Washington state office of the
attorney general.
(2) "Auditor" means: (a) The Washington state auditor's office or
its designee for qualifying utilities under its jurisdiction that are
not investor-owned utilities; or (b) an independent auditor selected by
a qualifying utility that is not under the jurisdiction of the state
auditor and is not an investor-owned utility.
(3) "Commission" means the Washington state utilities and
transportation commission.
(4) "Conservation" means any reduction in electric power
consumption resulting from increases in the efficiency of energy use,
production, or distribution.
(5) "Cost-effective" has the same meaning as defined in RCW
80.52.030.
(6) "Council" means the Washington state apprenticeship and
training council within the department of labor and industries.
(7) "Customer" means a person or entity that purchases electricity
for ultimate consumption and not for resale.
(8) "Department" means the department of community, trade, and
economic development or its successor.
(9) "Distributed generation" means an eligible renewable resource
where the generation facility or any integrated cluster of such
facilities has a generating capacity of not more than five megawatts.
(10) "Eligible renewable resource" means:
(a) Electricity from a generation facility powered by a renewable
resource other than fresh water that commences operation after March
31, 1999, where: (i) The facility is located in the Pacific Northwest;
or (ii) the electricity from the facility is delivered into Washington
state on a real-time basis without shaping, storage, or integration
services; or
(b) Incremental electricity produced as a result of efficiency
improvements completed after March 31, 1999, to hydroelectric
generation projects owned by a qualifying utility and located in the
Pacific Northwest or to hydroelectric generation in irrigation pipes
and canals located in the Pacific Northwest, where the additional
generation in either case does not result in new water diversions or
impoundments.
(c) Electricity produced from a generation facility located at a
water supply storage facility developed under chapter 90.90 RCW.
(11) "Investor-owned utility" has the same meaning as defined in
RCW 19.29A.010.
(12) "Load" means the amount of kilowatt-hours of electricity
delivered in the most recently completed year by a qualifying utility
to its Washington retail customers.
(13) "Nonpower attributes" means all environmentally related
characteristics, exclusive of energy, capacity reliability, and other
electrical power service attributes, that are associated with the
generation of electricity from a renewable resource, including but not
limited to the facility's fuel type, geographic location, vintage,
qualification as an eligible renewable resource, and avoided emissions
of pollutants to the air, soil, or water, and avoided emissions of
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
(14) "Pacific Northwest" has the same meaning as defined for the
Bonneville power administration in section 3 of the Pacific Northwest
electric power planning and conservation act (94 Stat. 2698; 16 U.S.C.
Sec. 839a).
(15) "Public facility" has the same meaning as defined in RCW
39.35C.010.
(16) "Qualifying utility" means an electric utility, as the term
"electric utility" is defined in RCW 19.29A.010, that serves more than
twenty-five thousand customers in the state of Washington. The number
of customers served may be based on data reported by a utility in form
861, "annual electric utility report," filed with the energy
information administration, United States department of energy.
(17) "Renewable energy credit" means a tradable certificate of
proof of at least one megawatt-hour of an eligible renewable resource
where the generation facility is not powered by fresh water, the
certificate includes all of the nonpower attributes associated with
that one megawatt-hour of electricity, and the certificate is verified
by a renewable energy credit tracking system selected by the
department.
(18) "Renewable resource" means: (a) Water; (b) wind; (c) solar
energy; (d) geothermal energy; (e) landfill gas; (f) wave, ocean, or
tidal power; (g) gas from sewage treatment facilities; (h) biodiesel
fuel as defined in RCW 82.29A.135 that is not derived from crops raised
on land cleared from old growth or first-growth forests where the
clearing occurred after December 7, 2006; and (i) biomass energy based
on animal waste or solid organic fuels from wood, forest, or field
residues, or dedicated energy crops that do not include (i) wood pieces
that have been treated with chemical preservatives such as creosote,
pentachlorophenol, or copper-chrome-arsenic; (ii) black liquor
byproduct from paper production; (iii) wood from old growth forests; or
(iv) municipal solid waste.
(19) "Rule" means rules adopted by an agency or other entity of
Washington state government to carry out the intent and purposes of
this chapter.
(20) "Year" means the twelve-month period commencing January 1st
and ending December 31st."
Correct the title.
EFFECT: Defines hydroelectric generators installed at a water
supply storage facility developed under chapter 90.90 RCW as a
renewable energy improvement. Authorizes the DCTED Director, in
consultation with the DOE Director, to award a grant or a loan under
the energy freedom program to an applicant for a project to develop a
water supply storage facility under chapter 90.90 RCW. Adds new water
supply storage facilities as a possible project to be funded from the
energy freedom fund.
Requires repayments of principal and interest from loans out of the
energy freedom fund for water supply storage facility projects to be
used only for financial assistance to further funding of additional
energy freedom program projects.
Includes Electricity produced from a generation facility located at
a water supply storage facility developed under chapter 90.90 RCW as an
eligible renewable resource under I-937 provisions.