Contact Information: The Department of Environmental Protection 79 Elm Street Hartford, CT 06106-5127 (860) 424-4152 Or view the Department's Website

	Relevant State Agencies: Connecticut DPUC Connecticut Siting Council Connecticut Emissions Regulations Northeast CHP Application Center

	Major Utilities: Connecticut Light and Power (CL&P) United Illuminating Company (UL)

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Emissions Standards for Existing DG

Emissions Standards for New DG

Unit must have less than 500 hour of operation per year and operate only during emergencies and for maintenance. The unit must also have a fuel sulfur content of 0.3% or less.

Unit may take a fuel limit of 41 million cubic feet of gaseous fuel, 21,000 gallons of distillate fuel, or 1,000 gallons of propane. No state notification is required for the exemption, but record keeping is required.

******************NOTE: THE GENERAL PERMIT OPTION WILL EXPIRE ON DECEMBER 31, 2004***************

SITING REQUIREMENTS FOR NON-UTILITY GENERATORS:

Sec. 16-50i. Definitions. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Facility" means:

(3) any electric generating or storage facility using any fuel, including nuclear materials, including associated equipment for furnishing electricity but not including an emergency generating device, as defined in subsection (f) of this section or a facility

(i) owned and operated by a private power producer, as defined in section 16-243b,

(ii) which is a qualifying small power production facility or a qualifying cogeneration facility under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, as amended, or a facility determined by the council to be primarily for a producer's own use and

(iii) which has, in the case of a facility utilizing renewable energy sources, a generating capacity of one megawatt of electricity or less and, in the case of a facility utilizing cogeneration technology, a generating capacity of twenty-five megawatts of electricity or less;

(f) "Emergency generating device" means an electric generating device with a generating capacity of five megawatts or less, installed primarily for the purpose of producing emergency backup electrical power for not more than five hundred hours per year, and that (1) does not have a substantial adverse environmental effect, as determined by the council, or (2) is owned and operated by an entity other than an electric, electric distribution or gas company or (3) is under construction or in operation prior to May 2, 1989.

Sec. 16-243b. Definitions. Jurisdiction.

(3) "Private power producer" means

(A) a subsidiary of a gas public service company which is not affiliated with an electric public service company, or a subsidiary of a holding company controlling, directly or indirectly, a gas public service company but not an electric public service company, which generates electricity solely through ownership of fifty per cent or less of a private power production facility or, with the approval of the Department of Public Utility Control, through ownership of one hundred per cent of a private power production facility which

(i) uses a source of energy other than gas as the primary energy source of the facility or

(ii) uses gas as the primary energy source of the facility and uses an improved and innovative technology which furthers the state energy policy as set forth in section 16a-35k, (B) a subsidiary of any other public service company or a subsidiary of a holding company controlling, directly or indirectly, such a public service company, which generates electricity solely through ownership of fifty per cent or less of a private power production facility or (C) the state, a political subdivision of the state or any other person, firm or corporation other than a public service company or any corporation which was a public service company, prior to July 1, 1981, and which consents to be regulated as a public service company or a holding company for a public service company, which generates electricity solely through ownership of one hundred per cent or less of a private power production facility or (D) any combination thereof;

INTERCONNECTION REQUIREMENTS:

1. Generator submits application;
2. Company conducts application review;
3. Company conducts feasibility study;
4. Applicant authorizes impact study;
5. Company performs impact study;
6. Applicant authorizes electric power system facility study;
7. Company performs electric power system facility study;
8. Applicant executes interconnection agreement, authorizes work and defrays costs;
9. Project construction;
10. Applicant completes commissioning, pre-parallel testing;
11. Final acceptance, cost reconciliation, authorization to connect

(a) Subject to authorization of the exemption by ordinance in any municipality and to the provisions of subparagraph (b) of this subdivision, any solar energy electricity generating system which is not eligible for exemption under subdivision (57) of this section, any cogeneration system, or both, installed on or after July 1, 1981, and before October 1, 2006. The ordinance shall establish the number of years that a system will be exempt from taxation, except that it may not provide for an exemption beyond the first fifteen assessment years following the installation of a system. The ordinance shall prohibit the exemption from applying to additions to resources recovery facilities operating on October 1, 1994, or to resources recovery facilities constructed on and after that date and may prohibit the exemption from applying to property acquired by eminent domain for the purpose of qualifying for the exemption;
(b) As used in this subdivision, (A) "solar energy electricity generating system" means equipment which is designed, operated and installed as a system which utilizes solar energy as the energy source for at least seventy-five per cent of the electricity produced by the system and meets the standards established by regulation, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, and (B) "cogeneration system" means equipment which is designed, operated and installed as a system which produces, in the same process, electricity and exhaust steam, waste steam, heat or other resultant thermal energy which is used for space or water heating or cooling, industrial, commercial, manufacturing or other useful purposes and which meets standards established by regulation, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management;
(c) Any municipality which adopts an ordinance authorizing an exemption provided by this subdivision may enter into a written agreement with an applicant for the exemption, which may require the applicant to make payments to the municipality in lieu of taxes. The agreement may vary the amount of the payments in lieu of taxes in each assessment year of the agreement, provided the payment in any assessment year is not greater than the taxes which would otherwise be due in the absence of the exemption. Any agreement negotiated under this subdivision shall be submitted to the legislative body of the municipality for its approval or rejection;
(d) Any person claiming the exemption provided in this subdivision for any assessment year and whose application has been approved in accordance with subparagraph (c) of this subdivision shall, on or before the first day of November in such assessment year, file with the assessor or board of assessors in the town in which the system is located written application claiming the exemption. Failure to file the application in the manner and form as provided by such assessor or board within the time limit prescribed shall constitute a waiver of the right to the exemption for such assessment year. Such application shall not be required for any assessment year following that for which the initial application is filed, provided if such solar energy electricity generating system or cogeneration system is altered in a manner which would require a building permit, such alteration shall be deemed a waiver of the right to such exemption until a new application, applicable with respect to such altered system, is filed and the right to such exemption is established as required initially