Establishes native vegetation and habitat management practices for solar developers and local governments alike to maximize habitat creation for birds, pollinators, and other small wildlife.
Highlights the benefits of adopting policies that encourage pollinator-friendly practices at solar sites, and includes a model local ordinance and model procurement language.
Requires covered entities to divert organic waste to an authorized composting or anaerobic digestion facility, or a facility that uses any other authorized recycling method.
Requires businesses that produce specified amounts of organic waste to comply with organic waste recycling procedures in order to reduce the amount of organic waste in landfills.
Requires utilities to reduce customers’ fossil fuel use through either electrification, efficiency, fuel switching, or storage. Requirement is 2% of a utility’s annual sales starting in 2017 and increasing by 0.67% annually, reaching 12% in 2032.
Expands the scope of electric energy efficiency to include measures designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the use of expanded electricity consumption while minimizing ratepayer costs.
Enables utilities to offer customers on-bill financing agreements to finance measures such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy storage devices, and fuel-switching systems,
Large generators of food scraps must donate excess edible food and recycle all remaining food scraps if they are within 25 miles of an organics recycler.