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AB1072,1,5 1An Act to create 93.95, 93.96, 196.025 (8) and 196.025 (9) of the statutes;
2relating to: the measurement of carbon emissions and carbon emission offset
3transactions related to animal agriculture operators, renewable natural gas
4and energy produced at animal agriculture facilities, and granting
5rule-making authority.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill does the following related to the measurement of carbon emissions and
carbon emission offset transactions associated with animal agriculture operators
and renewable natural gas and energy produced at animal agriculture facilities:
1. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer
Protection to promulgate rules that establish voluntary and market-driven
standards for quantifying the carbon emissions produced directly and indirectly
from an animal agriculture operator's activities. DATCP must also create a form
that an animal agriculture operator can use to submit information related to the
operator's activities for calculating the carbon emissions produced directly and
indirectly from the operator's activities. If an animal agriculture operator submits
a completed form to DATCP, DATCP must calculate the carbon emissions produced
by using the standards DATCP must establish under the bill and notify the operator
of that amount.
2. Also, under the bill, DATCP must facilitate trade in products and services
related to transactions between animal agriculture operators and other parties for

carbon emission offsets and may operate an electronic marketplace for selling and
purchasing carbon emission offsets. DATCP must also do both of the following: a)
conduct research on and provide grants for conducting research on carbon
sequestration practices and carbon offset practices and b) monitor transactions
involving carbon emission offsets between animal agriculture operators and persons
that market carbon emission offsets. Under the bill, the seller and purchaser of a
carbon emission offset must each pay an assessment equaling 0.5 percent of the sales
price of the offset.
3. The bill also requires the Public Service Commission to develop a statewide
master plan for the collection, transportation, and commercialization of renewable
natural gas produced from animal wastes, biomass, and other organic sources. PSC
must develop standardized pipeline interconnection agreements for renewable
natural gas for both intrastate and interstate gas pipelines, and the agreements
must include provisions establishing specifications for renewable natural gas
injected into natural gas pipelines. Also, under the bill, PSC must require all
pipeline operators to accept renewable natural gas that satisfies the specifications
established in the standardized agreements developed by PSC. PSC must also
conduct a study of methods for the state to provide financing support for designing,
developing, and operating infrastructure for collecting and transporting renewable
natural gas produced from animal wastes, biomass, and other organic sources. PSC
must prepare a report detailing the results of the study and making
recommendations and submit the report to the appropriate standing committees of
the legislature.
4. The bill requires PSC to establish standardized power purchase agreements
and standardized agreements for the provision of energy as a service between animal
agriculture operators and electric utilities that involve distributed energy
generation systems with a capacity of less than 1.5 megawatts. The standardized
agreements must address a) net energy metering; b) rates at which electric utilities
must purchase electricity from an animal agriculture operator's distributed energy
generation system; c) power dispatch curtailment of an animal agriculture operator's
distributed energy generation system and compensation for excess generation and
parallel generation from such systems; d) conditions related to participation of an
animal agriculture operator's distributed energy system in the wholesale electricity
market; e) technical and operational specifications of an animal agriculture
operator's distributed energy generation system; and f) monthly utility billing
practices that clearly describe the buying, selling, and revenue sharing between an
electric utility and the host of a distributed energy generation system.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB1072,1 1Section 1. 93.95 of the statutes is created to read:
AB1072,3,4
193.95 Measurement of carbon emissions produced by animal
2agriculture operators.
(1) The department shall promulgate rules that establish
3voluntary and market-driven standards for quantifying the carbon emissions
4produced directly and indirectly from an animal agriculture operator's activities.
AB1072,3,8 5(2) (a) The department shall create and make available a form that an animal
6agriculture operator can use to submit information related to the operator's activities
7to the department for calculating the carbon emissions produced directly and
8indirectly from the operator's activities.
AB1072,3,139 (b) If an animal agriculture operator completes a form described in par. (a) and
10submits the form to the department, the department shall calculate the carbon
11emissions produced directly and indirectly from the animal agriculture operator's
12activities by using the standards established under sub. (1) and shall notify the
13animal agriculture operator of that amount.
AB1072,3,15 14(3) The department may contract with a private vendor to implement this
15section.
AB1072,3,19 16(4) The department and any private vendor shall keep confidential all
17information disclosed by an animal agriculture operator under sub. (2) (b) and the
18amount calculated under sub. (2) (b), and all such information is not subject to the
19right of public inspection and copying under s. 19.35 (1).
AB1072,2 20Section 2. 93.96 of the statutes is created to read:
AB1072,3,25 2193.96 Carbon emission offset transactions involving animal
22agriculture operators.
(1) The department shall facilitate trade in products and
23services related to transactions between animal agriculture operators and other
24parties for carbon emission offsets and may operate an electronic marketplace for the
25sale and purchase of carbon emission offsets.
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1(2) The department shall conduct research on and provide grants for
2conducting research on carbon sequestration practices and carbon offset practices.
AB1072,4,4 3(3) The department shall monitor transactions between animal agriculture
4operators and persons that market carbon emission offsets.
AB1072,4,8 5(4) The seller and purchaser of a carbon emission offset shall each pay the
6department an assessment equalling 0.5 percent of the sales price of the carbon
7emission offset. The department shall promulgate rules establishing due dates for
8the payment of assessments under this subsection.
AB1072,3 9Section 3. 196.025 (8) of the statutes is created to read:
AB1072,4,1510 196.025 (8) Renewable natural gas; master plan. (a) The commission shall
11develop a statewide master plan for the collection, transportation, and
12commercialization of renewable natural gas produced from animal wastes, biomass,
13and other organic sources. The master plan shall include required gas
14characteristics and specifications for renewable natural gas injected into natural gas
15pipelines.
AB1072,4,2016 (b) The commission shall develop standardized pipeline interconnection
17agreements for renewable natural gas for both intrastate and interstate gas
18pipelines. The agreements developed under this paragraph shall include provisions
19establishing specifications for renewable natural gas injected into natural gas
20pipelines.
AB1072,4,2321 (c) The commission shall require all pipeline operators to accept renewable
22natural gas that satisfies the specifications established in the standardized pipeline
23interconnection agreements developed by the commission under par. (b).
AB1072,4 24Section 4. 196.025 (9) of the statutes is created to read:
AB1072,5,7
1196.025 (9) Distributed energy resources at animal agriculture facilities.
2The commission shall establish standardized power purchase agreements and
3standardized agreements for the provision of energy as a service between animal
4agriculture operators and electric utilities, as defined in s. 16.957 (1) (g), that involve
5distributed energy generation systems with a capacity of less than 1.5 megawatts
6that are located on the premises of animal agriculture operators. The standardized
7agreements established under this subsection shall address all of the following:
AB1072,5,98 (a) Net metering of energy supplied to an animal agriculture operator by an
9electric utility and energy produced by the operator.
AB1072,5,1110 (b) Rates at which electric utilities are required to purchase electricity from an
11animal agriculture operator's distributed energy generation system.
AB1072,5,1512 (c) Power dispatch curtailment of an animal agriculture operator's distributed
13energy generation system and compensation for excess generation and parallel
14generation from an animal agriculture operator's distributed energy generation
15system.
AB1072,5,1716 (d) Conditions and terms related to the participation of an animal agriculture
17operator's distributed energy generation system in the wholesale electricity market.
AB1072,5,1918 (e) Technical and operational specifications of an animal agriculture operator's
19distributed energy generation system.
AB1072,5,2220 (f) Monthly utility billing practices that clearly describe the buying, selling,
21and revenue sharing between an electric utility, as defined in s. 16.957 (1) (g), and
22the host of a distributed energy generation system.
AB1072,5 23Section 5. Nonstatutory provisions.
AB1072,6,724 (1) The public service commission shall conduct a study of methods for this
25state to provide financing support for the design, development, and operation of

1collection and transportation infrastructure for renewable natural gas produced
2from animal wastes, biomass, and other organic sources. The public service
3commission shall prepare a report detailing the results of the study and making
4recommendations and shall submit the report to the appropriate standing
5committees of the legislature in the manner provided under s. 13.172 (3) no later
6than the first day of the 13th month beginning after the effective date of this
7subsection.
AB1072,6,88 (End)
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