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optimum carbon sequestration locations. Preliminary reports have been
completed for six sites.
• Hydrogen Markets Study – Researchers at Marshall University are identifying
markets and uses that currently exist for hydrogen in the Ohio Valley and the
associated in-place hydrogen infrastructure.
West Virginia Development Office
Capitol Complex, Building 6, Room 553
1900 Kanawha Blvd. E.
Charleston, WV 25305-0311
Phone: (800) 982-3386 or (304) 558-2234
Fax: (304) 558-0449
E-mail: jherholdt@wvdo.org
Web: www.wvdo.org
2. STANDARDS/REGULATIONS
WISCONSIN
Renewable Portfolio Standard
www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/SB-459eng.pdf
www.legis.state.wi.us/cr_final/00-065.pdf
http://psc.wi.gov/utilityinfo/electric/newsinfo/renewableresource.htm
Legislation passed in 1999 required Wisconsin’s investor-owned electric utilities and
rural electric cooperatives to provide to its retail electric customers or members
renewable energy in increasing percentages of its total retail electric sales, either directly
or through renewable resource credits from another electric provider. The percentage
requirements began at 0.5% in 2002 and increased to 2.2% by 2012. Renewable
resources are defined by the state as electricity derived from a fuel cell that uses, as
determined by the commission, a renewable fuel; tidal or wave action; solar thermal
electric or photovoltaic energy; wind power; geothermal technology; or biomass.
Subsequent legislation (Senate Bill 459), signed into law in March 2006, replaced the
earlier RPS and stipulated the following requirements:
• By 2015, 10% of the state’s electricity must be generated from renewable
sources.
• By 2007, the state must leverage its buying power to purchase 10% of the
energy for the six largest state agencies from renewable sources. By 2011
the renewable energy requirement for the largest state agencies increases to
20%.
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