CHAPTER 102
HB 174 – FINAL VERSION
26Jan2005… 0046h
2005 SESSION
03/09
HOUSE BILL 174
AN ACT relative to renewable energy transition service, extending a portion of the system benefits charge, and repealing laws relating to information provided to electric service consumers.
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
This bill:
I. Requires the public utilities commission to adopt rules relative to electricity suppliers and utilities offering renewable energy options.
II. Extends the portion of the system benefits charge due to programs for low income customers.
III. Repeals provisions that required all electric customers to be informed of the resource mix and environmental characteristics of their electric service and required the public utilities commission to expend money to inform the public of the benefits of electricity generated from renewable energy resources.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26Jan2005… 0046h
05-0392
03/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five
AN ACT relative to renewable energy transition service, extending a portion of the system benefits charge, and repealing laws relating to information provided to electric service consumers.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
102:1 New Paragraph; Public Utilities Commission; Rulemaking; Renewable Energy Information. Amend RSA 365:8 by inserting after paragraph XII the following new paragraph:
XIII. Standards and procedures by which those electricity suppliers and utilities that choose to offer renewable energy options will provide information to customers who take such service of the fuel source or sources and emissions associated with the electrical service that they take and to inform such customers of the resource mix and emissions associated with the electricity generated and sold in the New England region as a whole.
102:2 System Benefits Charge; Programs for Low-Income Customers. Amend RSA 374-F:4, VIII(c) to read as follows:
(c) The portion of the system benefits charge due to programs for low-income customers shall not exceed 1.5 mills per kilowatt hour. The authority of the commission to impose such a charge shall terminate on June 30, [2005] 2008. If the commission determines that the low-income program fund has accumulated an excess of $1,000,000 and that the excess is not likely to be substantially reduced over the next 12 months, it shall suspend collection of some or all of this portion of the system benefits charge for a period of time it deems reasonable.
102:3 Repeal. The following are repealed:
I. 2002, 268:7, relative to environmental disclosure.
II. 2002, 268:8, relative to expenditure on renewable energy education.
102:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
(Approved: June 15, 2005)
(Effective Date: June 15, 2005)