Arizona Administrative Code › Title 14 - PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES REGULATION › Chapter 2 - CORPORATION COMMISSION - FIXED UTILITIES › Article 18 - RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARD AND TARIFF › Section R14-2-1802 - Eligible Renewable Energy Resources

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A. "Eligible Renewable Energy Resources" are
				applications of the following defined technologies that displace Conventional
				Energy Resources that would otherwise be used to provide electricity to an
				Affected Utility's Arizona customers:
1.
				"Biogas Electricity Generator" is a generator that produces electricity from
				gases that are derived from plant-derived organic matter, agricultural food and
				feed matter, wood wastes, aquatic plants, animal wastes, vegetative wastes, or
				wastewater treatment facilities using anaerobic digestion or from municipal
				solid waste through a digester process, an oxidation process, or other
				gasification process.
2. "Biomass
				Electricity Generator" is an electricity generator that uses any raw or
				processed plant-derived organic matter available on a renewable basis,
				including: dedicated energy crops and trees; agricultural food and feed crops;
				agricultural crop wastes and residues; wood wastes and residues, including
				landscape waste, right-of-way tree trimmings, or small diameter forest
				thinnings that are 12" in diameter or less; dead and downed forest products;
				aquatic plants; animal wastes; other vegetative waste materials; non-hazardous
				plant matter waste material that is segregated from other waste; forest-related
				resources, such as harvesting and mill residue, pre-commercial thinnings,
				slash, and brush; miscellaneous waste, such as waste pellets, crates, and
				dunnage; and recycled paper fibers that are no longer suitable for recycled
				paper production, but not including painted, treated, or pressurized wood, wood
				contaminated with plastics or metals, tires, or recyclable post-consumer waste
				paper.
3. "Distributed Renewable
				Energy Resources" as defined in subsection (B).
4. "Eligible Hydropower Facilities" are
				hydropower generators that were in existence prior to 1997 and that satisfy one
				of the following two criteria:
a. New
				Increased Capacity of Existing Hydropower Facilities: A hydropower facility
				that increases capacity due to improved technological or operational
				efficiencies or operational improvements resulting from improved or modified
				turbine design, improved or modified wicket gate assembly design, improved
				hydrological flow conditions, improved generator windings, improved electrical
				excitation systems, increases in transformation capacity, and improved system
				control and operating limit modifications. The electricity kWh that are
				eligible to meet the Annual Renewable Energy Requirements shall be limited to
				the new, incremental kWh output resulting from the capacity increase that is
				delivered to Arizona customers to meet the Annual Renewable Energy
				Requirement.
b. Generation from
				pre-1997 hydropower facilities that is used to firm or regulate the output of
				other eligible, intermittent renewable resources. The electricity kWh that are
				eligible to meet the Annual Renewable Energy Requirements shall be limited to
				the kWh actually generated to firm or regulate the output of eligible
				intermittent Renewable Energy Resources and that are delivered to Arizona
				customers to meet the Annual Renewable Energy Requirements.
5. "Fuel Cells that Use Only
				Renewable Fuels" are fuel cell electricity generators that operate on renewable
				fuels, such as hydrogen created from water by Eligible Renewable Energy
				Resources. Hydrogen created from non-Renewable Energy Resources, such as
				natural gas or petroleum products, is not a renewable fuel.
6. "Geothermal Generator" is an electricity
				generator that uses heat from within the earth's surface to produce
				electricity.
7. "Hybrid Wind and
				Solar Electric Generator" is a system in which a Wind Generator and a solar
				electric generator are combined to provide electricity.
8. "Landfill Gas Generator" is an electricity
				generator that uses methane gas obtained from landfills to produce
				electricity.
9. "New Hydropower
				Generator of 10 MW or Less" is a generator, installed after January 1, 2006,
				that produces 10 MW or less and is either:
a.
				A low-head, micro hydro run-of-the-river system that does not require any new
				damming of the flow of the stream; or
b. An existing dam that adds power generation
				equipment without requiring a new dam, diversion structures, or a change in
				water flow that will adversely impact fish, wildlife, or water quality;
				or
c. Generation using canals or
				other irrigation systems.
10. "Solar Electricity Resources" use
				sunlight to produce electricity by either photovoltaic devices or solar thermal
				electric resources.
11. "Wind
				Generator" is a mechanical device that is driven by wind to produce
				electricity.