290 Relating to: renewable energy portfolio standards.

  Date of enactment: April 16, 2014
2013 Assembly Bill 594   Date of publication*: April 17, 2014

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2013 WISCONSIN ACT 290

An Act to amend 196.378 (2) (a) 2. d. and 196.378 (2) (a) 2. e.; and to create 196.378 (2) (a) 2. f. of the statutes; relating to: renewable energy portfolio standards.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 196.378 (2) (a) 2. d. of the statutes is amended to read:

196.378 (2) (a) 2. d. For Except as provided in subd. 2. f., for the year 2015, each electric provider shall increase its renewable energy percentage so that it is at least 6 percentage points above the electric provider's baseline renewable percentage.

Section 2 . 196.378 (2) (a) 2. e. of the statutes is amended to read:

196.378 (2) (a) 2. e. For Except as provided in subd. 2. f., for each year after 2015, each electric provider may not decrease its renewable energy percentage below the electric provider's renewable energy percentage required under subd. 2. d.

Section 3 . 196.378 (2) (a) 2. f. of the statutes is created to read:

196.378 (2) (a) 2. f. If an electric provider has a baseline renewable percentage that exceeds 12 percent and a renewable energy percentage that exceeds 14 percent for the year 2014, the electric provider shall maintain its renewable energy percentage in the years 2015 and thereafter at a level that is at least 2 percentage points above its baseline renewable percentage.