§ 2841.5

Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 713, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2008.

A local publicly owned electric utility serving retail end-use customers shall establish a program that does both of the following:

(a)Allows retail end-use customers to utilize combined heat and power systems that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by achieving improved efficiencies utilizing heat that would otherwise be wasted in separate energy applications.
(b)Provides a market for the purchase of excess electricity generated

by a combined heat and power system, at a just and reasonable rate, to be determined by the governing body of the utility.

Other sections in Article 1 - Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act

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