2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 152 - ENERGY DEVELOPMENT 152.720 Strategy for production of transportation fuels and synthetic natural gas from fossil energy resources and biomass resources.
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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 Department
for Energy Development and Independence shall develop and implement a strategy
for production of alternative 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 alternative 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 Department for Energy Development and
Independence and those of Kentucky's public and private colleges and
universities in order to maximize Kentucky's opportunities to access federal
funds and to receive research grants and awards from federal and other
sources to fund the development of clean coal technology, coal-to-liquid-fuel
conversion, synthetic natural gas, alternative transportation fuels, and biomass
resources;
(4) The identification of federal funds available for research, development,
construction, and operation of alternative transportation 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 alternative transportation fuels or
synthetic natural gas plants;
(7) Establishment or expansion of Kentucky state government incentives for
development, construction, or operation of alternative transportation fuels and
synthetic natural gas production facilities, including but not limited to financial
incentives, tax incentives, mandating or providing incentives for use of
alternative 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 of renewable energy, including solar
power, wind power, hydropower, and other sources.
Effective:June 25, 2013
History: Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 116, sec. 4, effective June 25, 2013. -Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 188, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2007 (2d Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 39, effective August 30, 2007. -Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 184, sec. 3, effective July 12, 2006.
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