The DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 15 to hear an overview of a new draft General Plan Approval/Operating Permit for Combined Heat and Power Facilities.

DEP is proposing to make permitting for facilities that generate electricity and use the energy for heating or cooling in a single system easier by developing a General Permit.

The draft GP-20 Combined Heat and Power permit would cover natural gas-fired electric generation facilities with a maximum capacity of less than 25 megawatts.

The permit would pre-set emission limits statewide along with other requirements, allowing for more stringent limits in the 5 Southeast counties.

Increasing the use of combined heat and power facilities is a recommendation in the 2018 Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan Update to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Public Utility Commission has also adopted a policy statement and formed a work group on combined heat and power generation to see how the Commission can encourage this more efficient way of generating electricity.

Click Here for DEP’s presentation on the draft General Permit.

Also on the agenda--

-- Draft Final Regulation Setting Additional Particulate (PM2.5) Requirements which is on the Environmental Quality Board agenda for August 20;

-- Overview of Mid-Atlantic States Transportation & Climate Initiative

-- Update On Rulemaking Petition To Establish A Greenhouse Gas Cap & Trade Program

-- Overview of proposed federal Affordable Clean Energy Rule

-- Status report on Air Quality Rulemakings, State Implementation Plan Revisions

The meeting will be held in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg starting at 9:15.

For more information and available handouts, visit the DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee webpage.  Questions should be directed to Kirit Dalal, 717-772-3436 or send email to: kdalal@pa.gov.

Helpful Link:

PUC Combined Heat And Power

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