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WSR 13-06-074 PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE [ Filed March 6, 2013, 11:38 a.m. , effective April 6, 2013 ] Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: Purpose of the proposal and its anticipated effects, including any changes in existing rules: Establish the state greenhouse gas emission performance standard for utility baseload electric generation as nine hundred and seventy pounds per megawatt-hour, the average greenhouse gas emission rate as directed by RCW 80.80.050.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 80.80.050.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 13-02-098 on January 2, 2013.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 2, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: March 6, 2013.
Nick Demerice
Director of
Government Affairs
Chapter 194-26 WAC GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS PERFORMANCE STANDARD
NEW SECTION
WAC 194-26-010 Authority. This chapter is promulgated pursuant to the authority granted in RCW 80.80.040, requiring the department of commerce to adopt the average available greenhouse gases emissions output as determined under RCW 80.80.050 as the greenhouse gas emissions performance standard for all baseload electric generation for which electric utilities enter into long-term financial commitments.[]
NEW SECTION
WAC 194-26-020 Average available greenhouse gas emissions output. The energy policy division of the department of commerce has surveyed new combined-cycle natural gas thermal electric generation turbines commercially available and offered for sale by manufacturers and purchased in the United States, and finds the average rate of emissions of greenhouse gases for these turbines to be nine hundred and seventy pounds per megawatt-hour.[]
