Bill Text: NH SB495 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to biodiesel in class I electric renewable energy.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-16 - Vacated from Committee and Laid on Table, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 06/16/2020 Senate Journal 8 [SB495 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-SB495-Introduced.html
SB 495 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2775
10/06
SENATE BILL 495
AN ACT relative to biodiesel in class I electric renewable energy.
SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Sen. Sherman, Dist 24; Rep. Malloy, Rock. 23; Rep. Cali-Pitts, Rock. 30
COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill allows biodiesel blended with heating oil to be used under class I electric renewable energy requirements.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2775
10/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to biodiesel in class I electric renewable energy.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Electric Renewable Energy; Class I; Biodiesel. Amend RSA 362-F:4, I(m) to read as follows:
(m) The production of biodiesel, as defined in RSA 362-A:1-a, I-b, by any facility in New Hampshire, or biodiesel blended with heating oil, sold in New Hampshire, and used by a New Hampshire end user to generate thermal energy, may be used to meet no more than 1/8 of a provider's nonthermal class I requirements in any given year under RSA 362-F:3, provided all applicable air emission and water discharge standards are met by the facility producing the biodiesel, the facility producing the biodiesel can document the sale of the biodiesel into the thermal energy market, and there is documentation of end-user efficiency rating, or where such documentation is not practicable, assuming the average end-user efficiency rating by customer class.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
