States that base load gas plants may not exceed 0.70 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per kilowatt hour of net electric power output.
Disallows commission from approving acquisition of coal facility unless it captures and stores at least 50% of its carbon dioxide emissions.
Effectively requires the use of CCS at new coal plants by capping emissions at NGCC levels, while exempting captured and sequestered carbon dioxide.
Provides that 20% of Utah’s adjusted electricity sales should be from qualifying electricity or renewable energy certificates by 2025, including “qualifying carbon sequestration generation.”
Includes “advanced technologies that reduce regulated air emissions from or increase the efficiency of existing energy production or generating plants that are fueled primarily by coal or gases from coal."
Names plants using “clean coal technology that includes the design capability to control or prevent the emission of carbon dioxide” as eligible alternative energy sources.
Names plants that capture and sequester 85% or more of carbon emissions as eligible “advanced cleaner energy sources.”
Originally named gasification facilities with carbon captures technologies as one of five eligible alternative energy sources under the state’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard.
Requires electric utilities to procure at least 5% of their total energy supply from “clean coal” facilities, defined as capturing between 50% and 90% of CO2 emissions, depending on date of construction.
Income tax reductions and abatement of property taxes applicable to the power plant and the sequestration site for a generation project that sequesters CO2.