Pathway 7.

Carbon Capture and Negative Emissions → Carbon Capture and Sequestration

7.1.11 CCS Carveouts in State RPSs

LPDD Recommendation: “States could expand their RPS laws to become clean energy standards, mandating not just the purchase of renewable energy, but also energy produced by coal-fired and natural gas combined-cycle (NGCC) plants that are equipped to capture CO2.”

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Utah’s Energy Resource Procurement Act

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

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.”

Indiana’s RPS-eligible clean power sources

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

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."

Ohio’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

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.

Michigan RPS Advanced Cleaner Energy Sources

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Names plants that capture and sequester 85% or more of carbon emissions as eligible “advanced cleaner energy sources.”

Massachusetts Original Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Originally named gasification facilities with carbon captures technologies as one of five eligible alternative energy sources under the state’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard.

Illinois RPS Clean Coal Carveout

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

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.