Bill Text: TX HB3837 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of advanced clean energy projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3837 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3837-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of advanced clean energy projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3837 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3837-Comm_Sub.html
By: Geren, Bailes, Isaac (Senate Sponsor - Sparks) | H.B. No. 3837 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023; | ||
May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural | ||
Resources & Economic Development; May 19, 2023, reported | ||
adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the designation of advanced clean energy projects. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 382.003(1-a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(1-a) "Advanced clean energy project" means: | ||
(A) a project for which an application for a | ||
permit or for an authorization to use a standard permit under this | ||
chapter is received by the commission on or after January 1, 2008, | ||
and before January 1, 2020, and that: | ||
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biomass, petroleum coke, solid waste, natural gas, or fuel cells | ||
using hydrogen derived from such fuels, in the generation of | ||
electricity, or the creation of liquid fuels outside of the | ||
existing fuel production infrastructure while co-generating | ||
electricity, whether the project is implemented in connection with | ||
the construction of a new facility or in connection with the | ||
modification of an existing facility and whether the project | ||
involves the entire emissions stream from the facility or only a | ||
portion of the emissions stream from the facility; | ||
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emissions stream from the facility that is associated with the | ||
project, is capable of achieving: | ||
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greater reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions; | ||
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designed for the use of feedstock, substantially all of which is | ||
subbituminous coal, an emission rate of 0.04 pounds or less of | ||
sulfur dioxide per million British thermal units as determined by a | ||
30-day average; or | ||
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designed for the use of one or more combustion turbines that burn | ||
natural gas, a sulfur dioxide emission rate that meets best | ||
available control technology requirements as determined by the | ||
commission; | ||
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greater reduction of mercury emissions; or | ||
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designed for the use of one or more combustion turbines that burn | ||
natural gas, a mercury emission rate that complies with applicable | ||
federal requirements; | ||
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emission rate for nitrogen oxides of: | ||
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per million British thermal units; | ||
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gasification technology, 0.034 pounds or less per million British | ||
thermal units; or | ||
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designed for the use of one or more combustion turbines that burn | ||
natural gas, two parts per million by volume; and | ||
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rate for filterable particulate matter of 0.015 pounds or less per | ||
million British thermal units; and | ||
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percent of the carbon dioxide in the portion of the emissions stream | ||
from the facility that is associated with the project and | ||
sequesters that captured carbon dioxide by geologic storage or | ||
other means; or | ||
(B) a project that is a facility: | ||
(i) for which an authorization to use a | ||
standard permit was approved after January 1, 2020, but before | ||
September 1, 2023; and | ||
(ii) that: | ||
(a) utilizes natural gas to create | ||
methanol; and | ||
(b) converts methanol to zero-sulfur | ||
transportation fuels. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 391.002(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Projects that may be considered for a grant under the | ||
program include: | ||
(1) advanced clean energy projects, as defined by | ||
Section 382.003(1-a)(A) [ |
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(2) new technology projects that reduce emissions of | ||
regulated pollutants from stationary sources; | ||
(3) new technology projects that reduce emissions from | ||
upstream and midstream oil and gas production, completions, | ||
gathering, storage, processing, and transmission activities | ||
through: | ||
(A) the replacement, repower, or retrofit of | ||
stationary compressor engines; | ||
(B) the installation of systems to reduce or | ||
eliminate the loss of gas, flaring of gas, or burning of gas using | ||
other combustion control devices; or | ||
(C) the installation of systems that reduce | ||
flaring emissions and other site emissions; and | ||
(4) electricity storage projects related to renewable | ||
energy, including projects to store electricity produced from wind | ||
and solar generation that provide efficient means of making the | ||
stored energy available during periods of peak energy use. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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