A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to broaden the definitions of "renewable energy resource" and "new renewable energy facility" as these definitions PERTAIN TO the renewable energy and energy efficiency portfolio standard and to appropriate funds to the north carolina utilities commission.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 62‑133.8(a)(5) reads as rewritten:
"(5)	'New renewable energy facility' means a renewable energy facility that satisfies any one or more of the following criteria:
a.	Was placed into service on or after January 1, 2007.
b.	Delivers or has delivered electric power to an electric power supplier pursuant to a contract with NC GreenPower Corporation that was entered into prior to January 1, 2007.
c.	Is a hydroelectric power facility with a generation capacity of 10 megawatts or less that delivers electric power to an electric power supplier.
d.	Is a facility producing synthetic gas created by a plasma gasification of biogenic material such as municipal solid waste, as defined in G.S. 130A‑290, or animal waste, as defined in G.S. 143‑215.10B."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 62‑133.8(a)(8) reads as rewritten:
"(8)	'Renewable energy resource' means a solar electric, solar thermal, wind, hydropower, geothermal, or ocean current or wave energy resource; a synthetic gas created by the plasma gasification of biogenic material such as municipal solid waste, as defined in G.S. 130A‑290, or animal waste, as defined in G.S. 143‑215.10B; a biomass resource, including agricultural waste, animal waste, wood waste, spent pulping liquors, combustible residues, combustible liquids, combustible gases, energy crops, or landfill methane; waste heat derived from a renewable energy resource and used to produce electricity or useful, measurable thermal energy at a retail electric customer's facility; or hydrogen derived from a renewable energy resource. 'Renewable energy resource' does not include peat, a fossil fuel, or nuclear energy resource."
SECTION 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Utilities Commission the sum of twenty‑five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year to be used to implement this act.
SECTION 4.  Section 3 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2010. The remaining sections of this act are effective when the act becomes law.