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SunCoke urges lawmakers to treat waste steam used in manufacturing as eligible for renewable energy credits under HB 264
Summary
SunCoke Energy told the Senate committee that expanding the definition of waste energy recovery to include steam transferred to separate manufacturing processes would allow existing Haverhill operations to receive renewable energy credits and promote efficiency.
At the committee’s second hearing on House Bill 264, Katie Batten, director of environmental and sustainability at SunCoke Energy, asked senators to extend the state’s renewable energy credit treatment to waste energy recovery systems that transfer steam to separate manufacturing processes.
Batten described SunCoke’s operations in Ohio (Haverhill and Middletown), explained that Haverhill 1 transfers recovered steam to a neighbor (Altiva) rather than using it to generate electricity, and said the bill would create parity between Haverhill 1 and Haverhill 2 by recognizing transferred steam as a waste energy recovery system eligible for renewable energy credits under the Ohio Revised Code.
SunCoke said the change would displace natural gas, support manufacturing efficiency, and align policy treatment across similar facilities. Batten provided technical detail about steam capacity and the company’s existing heat recovery technology and urged senators to support the definition change so Haverhill 1 can receive credit for displacing fossil fuel use.
Ending: The committee recorded written sponsor testimony from Representative Johnson and concluded the second hearing on HB 264; no vote was taken in the session recorded by the transcript.
