Renewable And Alternative Energy Policies
When discussing renewable or alternative energy policies, common ideas such as
more solar and wind come to mind foremost without or with little thought when you
hear renewable or alternative energies. However, policies for these can be quite
alarming to someone who does not work or study the field. With Pennsylvania
deregulating their the electricity sector in late 1996, alternative energies were
certainly not the first thing when it came to their minds when trying to reduce their
ever increasing electricity bills. Deregulation brought many ways for Pennsylvania to
reduce costs, with still many more questions to be answered and in 2004, when the
Alternative EnergyPortfolio Standards Act was passed, it was not just up to the
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However it is not until 2007 where AEPS s timetable for the next fifteen years for a
progression to hit their desired targets for renewable energies (State Impact). As it
stands, PUC s standards involve roughly an eighteen percent alternative energy
resources by the year 2020 2021 (DSIRE). In that eighteen percent, eight percent
should be comprised of tier one energies, which includes solar, wind, biomass,
anaerobic decomposition, geothermal, ocean, fuel cells powered through renewables,
small hydro, poultry litter incineration facilities, waste to energy facilities
(Energy.Gov) and ten percent to be tier two energy usually, black liquor, blast
furnace gas, distribution generation, hydro, municipal solid waste, other caste, waste
coal, waste heat, wood/wood wastes solids (PUC 2013 Annual Report). Now
standards and compliance are just numbers, and not truly indicative of Pennsylvania s
utility companies can keep up with them. In PUC s 2013 annual report, all standards
are in compliance to their requirements for the 2013 year (PUC 4). That means of the
seventeen qualified generating facilities, each are in compliance to their quarterly
adjustments towards the goal of 18% alternative energies. For those adjustments,
PUC uses the formula:
Non solar PV Tier I % = New Tier I MWh generation/Electric Distribution Companies
(EDC) and Electric Generation