SF0101 Low-carbon energy standards-repeal. | Wyoming Bill

Low-carbon energy standards-repeal.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; repealing low-carbon energy standard requirements; repealing conflicting provisions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring reimbursement to customers for recovered rates from public utilities as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

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Act to Remove Low-Carbon Energy Standards

This act removes requirements for public utilities to meet low-carbon energy standards and refunds customers who paid extra rates under these standards.

What This Bill Does

Removes the requirement for public utilities to follow low-carbon energy standards.

Repeals conflicting provisions related to carbon capture, utilization, and storage technology.

Requires public utilities that collected additional rates from customers due to low-carbon energy standards to refund those amounts.

Directs the Public Service Commission to create rules needed to carry out this act.

Who It Names or Affects

Public utilities in Wyoming

Customers of public utilities who paid extra rates under low-carbon energy standards

Terms To Know

Low-Carbon Energy Standards

Requirements for public utilities to generate electricity with lower carbon emissions.

Public Service Commission

The agency responsible for regulating and overseeing public utilities in Wyoming.

Limits and Unknowns

This act does not specify how refunds will be calculated or distributed.

It is unclear what the impact on future energy policies might be without these standards.

Current Bill Text

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24LSO-0454
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0454
Numbered
2.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0101

Low-carbon energy standards-repeal.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Steinmetz, Biteman, Bouchard, French, Hicks, Hutchings, Ide, Kinskey and McKeown and Representative(s) Angelos, Bear, Haroldson, Jennings, Knapp, Neiman, Ottman, Penn, Rodriguez-Williams, Singh, Slagle, Smith, Strock, Tarver and Ward

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to public utilities; repealing low-carbon energy standard requirements; repealing conflicting provisions; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; requiring reimbursement to customers for recovered rates from public utilities as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 37
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101(a)(intro) and 37
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2
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134(a)(i) and (iv) are amended to read:

37
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101.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in chapters 1, 2, 3, 12
,

and
17
and 18
of this title:

37
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2
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134.

Electric generation facility closures; presumption; commission review.

(a)

As used in this section:

(i)

"Dispatchable" means
as defined in W.S. 37
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18
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101(a)(ii)
a source of electricity that is available for use on demand and that can be dispatched upon request of a power grid operator or that can have its power output adjusted, according to market needs
and includes dispatchability;

(iv)

"Reliable" means
as defined in W.S. 37
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18
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101(a)(iv)
generated electricity that is not subject to intermittent availability
.

Section 2.

W.S. 37
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1
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101(a)(vi)(N), 37
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18
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101 and 37
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18
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102 are repealed.

Section 3.

Not later than sixty (60) days after the effective date of this act, each public utility that recovered rates from customers under W.S. 37
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18
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102(c)(i) or (iii), as repealed by section 2 of this act, shall refund those rates to customers who paid them, provided that the utility shall not be required to refund rates recovered under W.S. 37
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18
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102(c)(i) and (iii) that the utility had expended for carbon capture, utilization and storage technology before the effective date of this act. Refunds required under this section shall be in a form and manner specified by the public service commission.

Section 4.

The public service commission shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 5
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This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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