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Funding Resources
Funding Resources
| OH Renewable Portfolio Standard | |
|---|---|
| Type of Incentive | Environmental Regulations |
| Eligible States | OH |
| Eligible Technology | Backpressure Turbine, Boiler, Combustion Turbine, Condensing Turbine, Extracting Turbine, Fuel Cell, Microturbine, Other, Reciprocating Engine, Heat Recovery Generator, Stirling Engine |
| Eligible Fuel | # 2 Fuel Oil, # 6 Fuel Oil, Biogas, Biomass, Coal, Hydrogen, LFG, Municipal Solid Waste, Natural Gas, Other, Tire-Derived Fuel, Waste heat Recovery |
| Eligible Project Size | All (MW) |
| Critical Information | In May 2008, Ohio enacted S.B. 221, a broad electric industry restructuring bill containing alternative energy and renewable energy generation and procurement requirements for the state's utilities, excluding municipal utilities and electric cooperatives. Under the standard, utilities must provide 25 percent of their retail electricity supply from alternative energy resources by 2025, with specific annual benchmarks for renewable and solar energy resources. Additionally, utilities are required to implement energy efficiency and peak demand reduction programs that achieve a cumulative energy savings of 22 percent by the end of 2025, and reduce peak demand by 1 percent in 2009 and 0.75 percent annually thereafter through 2018. |
| Start Date | 1/1/2009 |
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| Additional Information | Alternative energy resources include all "advanced energy resources," which are defined as any process or technology that increases the generation output of an electric generating facility without additional carbon dioxide emissions. The definition also explicitly includes clean coal; generation III advanced nuclear power; distributed combined heat and power (CHP); fuel cells that generate electricity; certain solid waste conversion technologies; and demand side management or efficiency improvements. In order to qualify under the standard, all alternative energy and renewable energy facilities must have a placed in service date of January 1, 1998, or later. Eligible renewable resources are defined to include the following technologies: solar photovoltaics (PV), solar thermal, wind, geothermal, biomass, biologically derived methane gas, landfill gas, certain non-treated waste biomass products, fuel cells that generate electricity and qualified hydroelectric facilities. The renewable requirement takes effect in 2009 and increases annually towards an eventual target of 12.5 percent of retail electricity sales by year-end in 2024 and thereafter. |
| Web Site |
http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/ incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=OH14R&state=OH&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=1  |
| Primary Contact |
Greg Payne Energy Public Policy Liason 77 South High Street, 26th Floor PO Box 1001 Columbus, OH 43216-1001 U.S.A. Greg Payne (greg.payne@development.ohio.gov) (614) 466-7387 |