Bill No.                9-14                          

Concerning: Environmental Sustainability – Renewable Energy – County Purchase              

Revised:    4/22/2014        Draft No. 2  

Introduced:      January 28, 2014            

Enacted:         April 22, 2014                

Executive:       May 1, 2014                   

Effective:        July 31, 2014                 

Sunset Date:  None                             

Ch.   9      , Laws of Mont. Co.    2014    

 

County Council

For Montgomery County, Maryland

 

By: Councilmember Berliner, Council Vice President Leventhal, and Councilmembers Floreen, Riemer, Andrews, and Navarro

 

AN ACT to:

(1)               require that at least 50% of the County’s electric power usage be supplied with renewable energy by Fiscal Year 2015;

(2)               require that 100% of the County’s electric power usage be supplied with renewable energy by Fiscal Year [[2020]] 2016; and

(3)               generally amend County law on environmental sustainability.

 

By adding

            Montgomery County Code

            Chapter 18A, Environmental Sustainability

            Section 18A-11A

 

 

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The County Council for Montgomery County, Maryland approves the following Act:


          Sec. 1. Section 18A-11A is added as follows:

18A-11A.   Renewable Energy.

          (a)     Purchase of renewable energy.

(1)     The County Executive must assure that at least 50% of the County’s total annual electric power usage will be supplied by renewable energy, beginning in Fiscal Year 2015.

(2)     The County Executive must assure that 100% of the County’s total annual electric power usage will be supplied by renewable energy, beginning in Fiscal Year [[2020]] 2016.

(b)     Criteria for renewable energy purchases.  The renewable energy purchased under subsection (a) must:

(1)     be generated from an energy source defined as a Tier 1 renewable source in Section 7-701 of the Public Utilities Article of the Maryland Code or any successor provision;

(2)     qualify as green power as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency;

(3)     not be included in a supplier’s renewable portfolio standard requirement for any year or supplant clean energy purchased to comply with either federal law or the law of states other than Maryland; and

(4)     be registered and tracked in a regional tracking system.

(c)      On-site clean energy generation.  The County may satisfy the requirement of subsection (a) through on-site clean energy generation.  The County must retain ownership of each on-site project’s renewable energy certificates and must meet all other requirements of this Section.  The County may exchange the renewable energy certificates for certificates from an alternate source that complies with this Section.

Approved: