Pathway 5.

Electricity Decarbonization → Distributed Renewable Energy

5.2.8 Incorporating DERs, microgrids, and thermal energy into Renewable Portfolio Standards

LPDD Recommendation: “RPS should include mandates for solar energy, possibly specifically for DG sources, as well as mandates for energy storage and microgrid capacity.”

LPDD Recommendation: “State legislatures should enact RPS that focus not only on the generation of electricity, but also on thermal energy systems that can contribute to decarbonization, such as heat pumps and district heating thermal energy.”

9 Resources Found, Displaying 1 thru 9

Report, Renewable Thermal in State Renewable Portfolio Standards

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Provides an overview of how states across the country are incorporating renewable thermal technologies into their RPS programs.

Austin TX’s RPS

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Includes a solar carve-out that requires Austin Energy’s generation mix to include 950 MW of solar capacity by 2025, including 200 MW of “local solar.”

DC’s Law 22-257 (2019)

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Targeting 100% clean energy by 2032.

Pennsylvania’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Includes a tier for useful thermal energy from the production of electricity, and demand-side management resources.

Wisconsin’s RPS

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Allows resources that produce a measurable and verifiable displacement of conventional electricity resources to also qualify as eligible resources.

North Carolina RPS

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Defines a REC as equivalent to 1 MWh of electricity derived from a renewable energy source, thermal or efficiency measure.

Maryland’s 2019’s Clean Energy Jobs Act

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Upped the RPS carve-out requirement specifically for solar production.

New Hampshire RPS

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Defines “New Renewable Energy” to include “useful thermal energy” for which fuel or electricity would otherwise be consumed.

Maine’s LD 1494

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Updated the State’s RPS to require the creation of a new thermal portfolio standard to incentivize efficient heating and cooling installations.