§ 8-1-2-6.7 — Depreciation of clean coal technology

Indiana § 8-1-2-6.7

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 1: UTILITIES GENERALLY
• Ch. 2: Utility Regulation

Text

7. (a) As used in this section, "clean coal
technology" means a technology (including precombustion treatment
of coal):
(1) that is used in a new or existing electric generating facility and
directly or indirectly reduces airborne emissions of sulfur or
nitrogen based pollutants associated with the combustion or use
of coal; and
(2) that either:
(A) is not in general commercial use at the same or greater
scale in new or existing facilities in the United States as of
January 1, 1989; or
(B) has been selected by the United States Department of
Energy for funding under its Innovative Clean Coal Technology
program and is finally approved for such funding on or after
January 1, 1989.
(b) The commission shall allow a public or municipally owned
electric utility that incorporates clean coal technology to depreciate that
technology over a period of not less than ten (10) years or the useful
economic life of the technology, whichever is less and not more than
twenty (20) years if it finds that the facility where the clean coal
technology is employed:
(1) utilizes and will continue to utilize (as its primary fuel source)
Indiana coal; or
(2) is justified, because of economic considerations or
governmental requirements, in utilizing non-Indiana coal;
after the technology is in place.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.105-1989, SEC.3.