Praxair, a global chemical company serving the aerospace, food and beverages, healthcare and semiconductors industries with
facilities in Erie and Niagara Counties, receives low - cost
hydropower that supports its more than 1,300 employees in its Western
New York
facilities.
In addition, recipients must also undertake capital investments at their Western
New York
facilities receiving the
hydropower which collectively will total approximately $ 150 million a year over the term of the extensions.
[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a
facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas,
hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a
facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of
new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or
hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a
facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»