Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage

Requires utilities to offer to purchase renewable energy and includes “electrical energy produced using pipeline-quality synthetic gas produced from waste petroleum coke with carbon capture and sequestration” in definition of “renewable energy."

Authorizes the State Mineral and Energy Board, among other powers, to “enter into operating agreements whereby the state receives a share of revenues from the storage of oil, natural gas, liquid or liquefied hydrocarbons, or carbon dioxide.”

Subsection 4 provides that carbon dioxide that has been “captured and used for a commercial purpose” or “permanently disposed of in geological formations” shall not be counted as emissions for the purpose of the code.

Carbon capture and sequestration is included in the definition of “clean energy research” that may be supported by Massachusetts Alternative and Clean Energy Investment Trust Fund.

This law places “carbon capture, storage, or sequestration” in the definition of “green economy” and provides for actions to promote job training in support of a green economy.

Allows electricity distribution companies to recover cost of CCS technologies through service charges.

Authorizes Department of Environmental Protection to compose report on economic opportunities available to the state due to need for alternative energy, including “carbon sequestration technologies.”

Directs the Department of Environmental Protection to identify and assess Pennsylvanian geologic formations for carbon sequestration.