2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .720   Strategy for production of transportation fuels and synthetic natural gas from fossil energy resources and biomass resources.

152.720 Strategy for production of transportation fuels and synthetic natural gas from fossil energy resources and biomass resources. To ensure that Kentucky will lead the states in securing the energy independence of the United States and will consequently benefit from economic growth and stabilization of the Commonwealth's coal industry and agriculture, the Kentucky Office of Energy Policy shall develop and implement a strategy for production of transportation fuels and synthetic natural gas from fossil energy resources and biomass resources. The strategy shall address: (1)  Technologies available or in use for producing transportation fuels and synthetic natural gas from fossil energy resources and biomass resources and the relative advantages of these in terms of process efficiencies, environmental performance, and marketable products, including chemicals, industrial feedstocks, and electricity; (2)  Research, demonstration, and commercial-scale construction and operation of one (1) or more technologies, and follow-up expansion; (3)  The essential nature of efficient cooperation, coordination, and synergy between the efforts of the Office of Energy Policy and those of Kentucky's universities in order to maximize Kentucky's opportunities to tap federal funding streams and receive research grants and awards from federal and other sources funding the development of clean coal technology, coal-to-liquid-fuel conversion, synthetic natural gas, alternate transportation fuels, and biomass energy resources; (4)  Federal funds for research, development, construction, and operation of alternate fuels or synthetic natural gas plants at laboratory, demonstration, and commercial scale; (5)  Establishment of a major federal energy research laboratory in Kentucky; (6)  Industry participation, both by single firms and by consortia, in research, development, construction, and operation of alternate transportation fuels or synthetic natural gas plants; (7)  Establishment or expansion of Kentucky state government incentives for development, construction, or operation of alternate transportation fuels and synthetic natural gas production facilities, including but not limited to financial incentives, tax incentives, mandating or providing incentives for use of alternate transportation fuels and synthetic natural gas by state government, school districts, or utilities, authority to issue bonds, and acquisition and preliminary environmental assessment of industrial sites; and (8)  Development of incentives to encourage energy conservation and renewable fuel and energy use and deployment including solar, wind, hydro, and other sources. State incentives should mirror those established at the federal level. Effective: July 12, 2006 History: Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 184, sec. 3, effective July 12, 2006. Page 1 of 1