ARTICLE 1. Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act

Article 1 added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 713, Sec. 1.

§§ 2840–2843 · 10 sections

• § 2840 This article shall be known and may be cited as the Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act.
• § 2840.2 For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Combined heat and power system” means a system that produces both…
• § 2840.4 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Combined heat and power systems produce both electricity and thermal energy from a single fuel…
• § 2840.6 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that state policies dramatically advance the efficiency of the state’s use of natural gas by capturing unused waste…
• § 2841 (a) The commission may require an electrical corporation to purchase from an eligible customer-generator, excess electricity that is delivered to the grid that…
• § 2841.5 A local publicly owned electric utility serving retail end-use customers shall establish a program that does both of the following: (a) Allows retail end-use…
• § 2842 The commission, in approving a procurement plan for an electrical corporation pursuant to Section 454.5, shall require that the electrical corporation’s…
• § 2842.2 The commission shall ensure that an electrical corporation utilizes long-term planning and a reliability assessment for upgrades to its transmission and…
• § 2842.4 (a) The commission shall, for each electrical corporation, establish a pay-as-you-save pilot program for eligible customers. (b) For the purposes of this…
• § 2843 (a) The Energy Commission shall, by January 1, 2010, adopt guidelines that combined heat and power systems subject to this chapter shall meet, and shall…