Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap (R.06-04-009)
What’s this? Initiated out of Assembly Bill ( AB) 32, this will design and implement a greenhouse gas ( GHG) cap for the regulated electric utilities, including consideration of a GHG performance standard.
What’s new?
At the CPUC’s July 29 Meeting, Decision (D.)10-07-046 was signed by the commission. The final decision grants, in part, the Petition to Modify Decision 07-01-039, filed by Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, Green Power Institute, Union of Concern Scientists and The Utility Reform Network (NRDC et al.) The final decision modifies D.07-01-039 to clarify that the plan a load-serving entity must file as part of an application for a CPUC finding that a carbon capture sequestration power plant complies with the emissions performance standard must comply with federal and state monitoring, verification and reporting requirements applicable to projects designed to permanently sequester CO2 and prevent its release from the subsurface and to further specify how a plan may meet monitoring, verification and reporting requirements if federal and state requirements do not exist or have not been finalized.
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