GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

SESSION LAW 2011-279

SENATE BILL 484

AN ACT to provide that the additional credits assigned to the first ten megawatts of biomass renewable energy facility generation capacity pursuant to S.L. 2010-195 (Cleanfields act of 2010) are eligible to satisfy the Poultry waste set-aside.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 4 of S.L. 2010-195 reads as rewritten:

"SECTION 4.  Renewable energy generation. - The definitions in G.S. 62-133.8 apply to this act. If the Utilities Commission determines that a biomass renewable energy facility located in the cleanfields renewable energy demonstration park is a new renewable energy facility, the Commission shall assign triple credit to any electric power or renewable energy certificates generated from renewable energy resources at the biomass renewable energy facility that are purchased by an electric power supplier for the purposes of compliance with G.S. 62-133.8. The additional credits assigned to the first 10 megawatts of biomass renewable energy facility generation capacity shall be eligible for use to meet the requirements of G.S. 62-133.8(f). The additional credits assigned to the first 10 megawatts of biomass renewable energy facility generation capacity shall first be used to satisfy the requirements of G.S. 62-133.8(f). Only when the requirements of G.S. 62-133.8(f) are met, shall the additional credits assigned to the first 10 megawatts of biomass renewable energy facility generation capacity be utilized to comply with G.S. 62-133.8(b) and (c). The triple credit shall apply only to the first 20 megawatts of biomass renewable energy facility generation capacity located in all cleanfields renewable energy demonstration parks in the State."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18^th day of June, 2011.

                                                                    s/  Philip E. Berger

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

Approved 5:22 p.m. this 23^rd day of June, 2011