California Code of Regulations
Title 17 - Public Health
Division 3 - Air Resources
Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board
Subchapter 10 - Climate Change
Article 5 - California Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Market-Based Compliance Mechanisms
Subarticle 7 - Compliance Requirements for Covered Entities
Section 95852.1.1 - Eligibility Requirements for Biomass-Derived Fuels
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Biomass-derived fuel procured under contracts for biogas and biomethane must meet one of the following criteria. Only the portion of the fuel that meets one of these criteria will be considered a biomass-derived fuel. Emissions from combustion of this fuel will not be subject to a compliance obligation when reported as Biomass CO2 in an emissions data report that has received a positive or qualified positive emissions data verification statement and determined as exempt pursuant to section 95852.2 and 95131(j) of MRR.
(b) An entity may not sell, trade, give away, claim, or otherwise dispose of any of the carbon credits, carbon benefits, carbon emissions reductions, carbon offsets or allowances, howsoever entitled, attributed to the fuel production that would, when combined with the CO2 emissions from complete combustion of the fuel, result in more CO2e emissions than would have occurred in the absence of the fuel production. In the case of biomethane or biogas produced from digesters or landfills, the resulting credit for avoided methane emissions may not exceed the global warming potential as listed in MRR for methane plus 2.75 in metric tons of CO2e per ton of captured methane. This includes any credit received by an entity in the Carbon Intensity calculation under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation (title 17, California Code of Regulations (CCR), sections title 17, California Code of Regulations (CCR), sections 95480-95490) for methane capture. All calculations of CO2e emissions are based on the 100-year global warming potentials included in MRR. Generation of Renewable Energy Credits is excluded from this analysis and will not prevent a biomass-derived fuel that meets the requirements in this section from being exempt from a compliance obligation.
1. New
section filed 12-13-2011; operative 1-1-2012 pursuant to Government Code
section
11343.4
(Register 2011, No. 50).
2. Change without regulatory effect
amending subsection (a) filed 2-15-2012 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2012, No. 7).
3. Amendment filed 6-26-2014;
operative 7-1-2014 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4(b)(3)
(Register 2014, No. 26).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 38510, 38560, 38562, 38570, 38571, 38580, 39600 and 39601, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 38530, 38560.5, 38564, 38565, 38570 and 39600, Health and Safety Code.