Pennsylvania’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (AEPS Act)
1 requires that a certain percentage of the electric energy that electric distribution companies (EDCs) and electric generation suppliers (EGSs) sell to retail customers be derived from qualifying alternative energy sources. EDCs and EGSs must meet certain minimum thresholds for the use of energy generated by: solar photovoltaic technologies, Tier I sources (including wind, fuel cells and biomass), and Tier II sources (including distributed generation systems, demand-side management and municipal solid waste).
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Consequently, the rules defining a qualifying alternative energy source are very important. Most of these rules are set forth in the AEPS Act and its implementing regulations.
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U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett should support legislation that would result in carbon dividends being paid to Americans while saving lives.
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Mark Reynolds is the executive director of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, and Jan Berry is its Tennessee state coordinator.
“Climate change action without carbon pricing is like running with shoe laces untied, much harder,” explained Dr. Charles Sims, the director of the Energy and Environment Program for the University of Tennessee s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy in Knoxville. “I want to learn more about it,” said U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett.
Pennsylvania Takes Next Step to Start Carbon Emissions Caps in 2022
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s administration on Tuesday solidified its intention to begin imposing a price on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants next year as part of a multi-state consortium, over the protests of coal- and gas-region lawmakers and elements of the energy industry.
After fielding thousands of written public comments, Wolf’s administration issued a final rule for the regulatory plan with the same timeline and same goals for reductions in carbon dioxide, considered a major driver of global warming.
The rule must still go through two state regulatory boards with veto power, although both are tilted toward Wolf appointees and allies.
HARRISBURG (AP) Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration on Tuesday solidified its intention to begin imposing a price on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
Wolf, a Democrat, in 2019 ordered his administration to start drafting regulations to bring Pennsylvania into what is now an 11-state consortium of Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states that sets a price and declining limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
If Wolf is successful, Pennsylvania would become the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy and join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, called RGGI. Wolf has made both a centerpiece of his strategy to fight climate change in one of the nation s biggest power states and polluters.
In consortium states, owners of power plants fueled by coal, oil or natural gas with a capacity of 25 megawatts or more must buy a credit for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit.