Revision: Feb. 8, 2013, midnight
SB 65-FN – AS INTRODUCED
2013 SESSION
06/10
SENATE BILL 65-FN
AN ACT relative to energy efficiency plans of gas and electric distribution companies.
SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Rep. Pastor, Graf 12; Rep. Bixby, Straf 17
COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources
This bill requires gas and electric distribution companies to report plans for energy investment to the public utilities commission.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
13-0922
06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT relative to energy efficiency plans of gas and electric distribution companies.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Hampshire Energy Policy Statement. It is the general policy of the state to assure, to the greatest extent practicable, that New Hampshire meets its energy needs in a manner that, first and foremost:
I. Advances efficient use of all types of energy resources that are reliable and sustainable.
II. Assures affordability and encourages the state’s economic vitality.
III. Promotes the state’s goals with regard to the protection of New Hampshire’s environmental quality.
IV. Promotes, for the benefit of New Hampshire’s residents, businesses, and communities, the acquisition of all cost-effective gas and electric energy efficiency and demand resources that can be obtained at a lower cost than conventional supply.
2 New Section; Least Cost Energy Planning; Submission of Electric and Gas Distribution Company Plans. Amend RSA 379 by inserting after section 39 the following new section:
378:39-a Submission of Plans by Electric and Gas Distribution Companies. Electric and gas distribution companies shall, on or before April 30, 2014 and every third year subsequently, prepare and submit to the public utilities commission statewide plans for energy investment. Both the gas and the electric plans shall provide for the acquisition of all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective or less than the cost of supply. The plans shall:
I. Contain savings targets and preliminary budgets and be prepared taking into account the work of the energy efficiency and sustainable energy board.
II. Maximize the development of service delivery systems that overcome obstacles to customer investment in efficiency.
III. Provide integrated service offerings that are both convenient for consumers and facilitate development of supportive private-sector efficiency infrastructure.
3 Plans Required. Amend RSA 378:40 to read as follows:
378:40 Plans Required. No rate change shall be approved or ordered with respect to any utility that does not have on file with the commission a plan that has been filed and reviewed in accordance with the provisions of RSA 378:38 [and], RSA 378:39 and RSA 378:39-a. However, nothing contained in this subdivision shall prevent the commission from approving a change, otherwise permitted by statute or agreement, where the utility has made the required plan filing in compliance with RSA 378:38 and the process of review is proceeding in the ordinary course but has not been completed.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
13-0922
02/08/13
SB 65-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to energy efficiency plans of gas and electric distribution companies.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill, as introduced, as it is awaiting information from the Public Utilities Commission. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the Senate Clerk's Office.