Bill Text: PA HB146 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In restructuring of electric utility industry, providing for an economic and environmental impact study.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-30 - Referred to ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY [HB146 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB146-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 142
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 146 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY SOLOBAY, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BOYD, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, EVERETT, GROVE, GRUCELA, HARKINS, MAHONEY, MILLER, M. O'BRIEN, READSHAW, SIPTROTH, SONNEY AND VULAKOVICH, JANUARY 30, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, JANUARY 30, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in restructuring of electric utility
industry, providing for an economic and environmental impact
study.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 66 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 2816. Economic and environmental impact study.
(a) Duty to conduct study.--The commission and the
Department of Environmental Protection shall conduct a joint
study of the anticipated economic, energy and environmental
impacts of the act of November 30, 2004 (P.L.1672, No.213),
known as the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act. The
study shall:
(1) Estimate the consumer costs, job and electric rate
impacts and greenhouse gas emission reductions anticipated to
result from the programs authorized by the Alternative Energy
Portfolio Standards Act.
(2) Assess the impacts identified under paragraph (1) in
terms of a range of alternative future greenhouse gas control
options, including the Commonwealth's participation in the
ten-state Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and a
range of alternative options based on reducing Statewide
greenhouse gas emissions from year 2000 levels by 10% to 30%
by the years 2020 to 2030.
(3) Include assessments of the impacts of the
alternative options on this Commonwealth's:
(i) Manufacturing economy.
(ii) Energy prices.
(iii) Energy production and consumption.
(iv) Real personal income.
(v) Gross State domestic product.
(4) Examine the potential for leakage of emission
reduction in this Commonwealth to other states, increasing
greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere and diluting the benefits
of reductions achieved through Pennsylvania's greenhouse gas
control initiatives, and the availability of options to
mitigate the leakage.
(b) Completion.--The study shall be completed and
transmitted to the General Assembly no later than 12 months
following the effective date of this section.
(c) Definition.--As used in this section "greenhouse gases"
are gas emissions, including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous
oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulphur
hexafluoride.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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