Related Information

• State Energy Action Plan
Integrated Energy Policy Report
• California Biomass Collaborative
• Governor Schwarzenegger Executive Order on Biomass (April 25, 2006)

Bioenergy Action Plan

DOCKET # 06-BAP-1

Committee overseeing this proceeding is:

On August 23, 2005, the Governor expressed his support for the California Biomass Collaborative and asked that the Bioenergy Interagency Working Group, composed of state agencies with important biomass connections, be reinvigorated. He asked the Working Group to develop an integrated and comprehensive state policy on biomass, which includes electricity, natural gas and petroleum substitution potential. The policy should also reflect the substantial potential benefits, such as reducing municipal solid waste, which a wide range of conversion technologies can capture. The Governor further asked the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research Program to support this initiative.

The Interagency Working Group developed recommendations for a Bioenergy Action Plan for California and sent to the Govenor its final Working Group Report in April 2006. Governor Schwarzenegger responded with the State Plan on July 13, 2006. Please download a copy from here.

Bioenergy Action Plan for California
Publication number CEC-600-2006-010, July 2006.
(Acrobat PDF file, 11 pgs, 2.1 MB, Please note size.)

The Bioenergy Interagency Working Group

Air Resources Board
California Energy Commission
California Environmental Protection Agency
California Resources Agency
Department of Food and Agriculture
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Department of General Services
Integrated Waste Management Board
Public Utilities Commission
State Water Resources Control Board

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