California Code, Public Resources Code - PRC § 25541.1

It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the development of thermal powerplants using resource recovery (waste-to-energy) technology.  Previously enacted incentives for the production of electrical energy from nonfossil fuels in commercially scaled projects have failed to produce the desired results.  At the same time, the state faces a growing problem in the environmentally safe disposal of its solid waste.  The creation of electricity by a thermal powerplant using resource recovery technology addresses both problems by doing all of the following: