HB 1659 – AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
09/10
HOUSE BILL 1659
AN ACT including solar hot water heating systems in electric renewable energy class I.
SPONSORS: Rep. Cali-Pitts, Rock 16; Rep. Borden, Rock 18; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 24
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
This bill includes solar hot water heating systems in electric renewable energy class I.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2470
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT including solar hot water heating systems in electric renewable energy class I.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Electric Renewable Energy Classes; Class I. Amend RSA 362-F:4, I to read as follows:
I. Class I (New) shall include the production of electricity from any of the following, provided the source began operation after January 1, 2006[, except as noted below]:
(a) Wind energy.
(b) Geothermal energy.
(c) Hydrogen derived from biomass fuels or methane gas.
(d) Ocean thermal, wave, current, or tidal energy.
(e) Methane gas.
(f) Eligible biomass technologies.
(g) [The equivalent displacement of electricity, as determined by the commission, by end-use customers, from] Solar hot water heating systems [used instead of electric hot water heating].
(h) Class II sources to the extent that they are not otherwise used to satisfy the minimum portfolio standards of other classes.
(i) The incremental new production of electricity in any year from an eligible biomass or methane source or any hydroelectric generating facility licensed or exempted by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), regardless of gross nameplate capacity, over its historical generation baseline, provided the commission certifies demonstrable completion of capital investments attributable to the efficiency improvements, additions of capacity, or increased renewable energy output that are sufficient to, were intended to, and can be demonstrated to increase annual renewable electricity output. The determination of incremental production shall not be based on any operational changes at such facility but rather on capital investments in efficiency improvements or additions of capacity.
(j) The production of electricity from a class III or IV source that has begun operation as a new facility by demonstrating that 80 percent of its resulting tax basis of the source’s plant and equipment, but not its property and intangible assets, is derived from capital investment directly related to restoring generation or increasing capacity including department permitting requirements for new plants. Such production shall not qualify for class III or IV certificates.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.